Those waiting for UFC President Dana White's reaction to recent accusations that ProElite and EliteXC officials offered Seth Petruzelli a bonus not to take Kimbo Slice down to the ground during the main event of this past weekend's edition of Saturday Night Fights will be pleased to know he has broken his silence.
For more MMA news and features, check out thefightnetwork.com. In an interview published in the Boston Herald, White did not hold back in regard to his feelings about the latest controversy involving EliteXC.
"It disgusts me," White told the Herald. "I've been busting my (expletive) for 10 years flying all over the planet to show everybody what a great sport this is and what amazing people are involved in it. Then CBS throws this guy who fights at people's barbecues on the main event because they're trying to compete with us, and he gets knocked out in (14) seconds by a guy who didn't win 'The Ultimate Fighter' and couldn't fight in the UFC. Then the guy turns around the next day and says, 'The promoters actually paid me to not go to the ground with this guy. They paid me to stand up,' which I'm pretty sure is illegal."
White didn't stop there, as he expressed scorn for a promotion that has built itself around a former YouTube street fighting sensation.
"(Slice is) a joke," the Herald quotes White as saying. "It was bound to happen. These guys have lost $60 million trying to get this thing off the ground. They're building their promotion around a guy who can't fight. It's kind of (expletive) stupid, isn't it? You're in the fight business and you're building your business around a guy who can't fight."
