Dana White Finally Talks About EliteXC

In an interview with the Boston Herald, Dana White broke his unusually long silence regarding the clusterf*ck that was EliteXC's Heat card this past Saturday night on CBS. Here are the juicy parts:

“It disgusts me,” White said. “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.”

“(Slice is) a joke,” White said. “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.”

Can't argue with anything Dana says here - this is exactly what anyone with a functioning brain is thinking. And I have to say, I'm glad the mainstream media is finally jumping on this story. Let's just hope that when EliteXC goes out of business, their fighters all find good homes.