Dana White describes face to face meeting with Fedor
At a recent fan question-and-answer session, White talked about meeting the former PRIDE heavyweight champion for the first time face-to-face….
At a recent fan question-and-answer session, White talked about meeting the former PRIDE heavyweight champion for the first time face-to-face.
“I jumped on a plane and flew to some crazy island out in the middle of nowhere that, believe me, I did not want to go, sat down in a room with these guys and tried to hammer out a deal. It was a very, very respectful deal. Believe me when I tell you I tried to make this happen, and they know I did. They know I tried to make this fight happen and they didn’t take it. It was insane that they did not take this deal.
“So what am I going to do, you know what I mean? I know I always look like the bad guy, like, ‘Oh, he’s trying to lock up this …,” I have to run a business, but believe me when I tell ya, he had a damn good offer.
“He was there. It was the first time he and I had ever met face-to-face, and he we sat down, we hammered back and forth in this room for hours.
“It takes two to make a deal. These guys didn’t want to make a deal.”