Barnett: A trained monkey could do Dana White’s job

Anyone that isn’t UFC, he wants to cut it down, he wants to ruin it. There is a part of me that truly understands the idea of obliterating and destroying and annihilating any of your competition. But what he’s working in is a subjective field … It’s entertainment. What he’s working in is entertainment.

As far as the real, actual, brute aspect of fighting is concerned, he’s a hindrance, he’s unnecessary.

As far as fighting, you don’t need anybody for fighting beside the two people who want to fight. But in this case … you do need I believe, more than one option. You do need a Strikeforce, or any of these other organizations, because also they are often going to do the same thing you do, but just slightly different.

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Ariel Helwani: Good or bad for the sport?

Josh Barnett: Who?

Ariel Helwani: Him (points to image of Dana White)

I think we could definitely get a trained monkey to get in there and do his job.

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I dont care what he (Dana) thinks and I never did. I dont have any relationship with him. I don’t want a relationship with a guy like that.

I think Dana White is far over the line of being unprofessional