Dana White: I bet Fedor wishes he took the offer
“A lot of people were saying… ‘you must have been happy when Fedor (lost).’ To be honest with you, I’m…
“A lot of people were saying… ‘you must have been happy when Fedor (lost).’ To be honest with you, I’m as much of a fight fan as all you guys are. You hear me talk about Fedor. I flew to crazy places, made him a very respectable offer to come in and fight. I would have loved to have done him and Brock Lesnar or whoever. I tried to make that fight happen, and they know it, whether they say it or not.
“They know what I did, they know where I went, they know what I offered, and they still didn’t take the fight. It takes two to make a deal.”
“I told them, ‘you’re one punch away from being worth zero or half of what you’re worth. I bet they wish they took it now. The other thing with Fedor is I never say never.”
“There’s so many guys that have come into the UFC with a ton of hype and then they lose in the UFC.”
“That was in 2005. It’s 2010,” White said when pushed about Fedor’s record speaking for itself. “So does Muhammed Ali’s (record), should I bring him back in?”
“Obviously one of the top heavyweights is Fedor, and I would say Overeem, too, and I like Overeem. I’ve always had a good relationship with him. It’s hard to tell outside, and what a lot of people get caught up in is ‘oh this guy’s out there.’ What you have to realize is the guys that fight in the UFC fight the very best in the world three times a year.”
“I think anybody’s a possibility. He’s supposed to be their champion. They’ve had a hard time getting him to fight. Did you ever notice these guys at Strikeforce have a hard time getting their people to come in and actually fight. If that was the case, you guys would never see the fights that you want to see. Especially with as many fights as we’re doing, when we sign a guy we want him to fight three times in a year. How the hell is he going to fight somewhere else? It’s impossible.”