Dana White: ‘Won’t fight friend’ really means ‘He’ll kick my ass’
While appearing on The Jim Rome Show on Thursday, White expanded his thoughts on teammater vs. teammate. “The bottom line…
While appearing on The Jim Rome Show on Thursday, White expanded his thoughts on teammater vs. teammate.
“The bottom line is, and the way that that’s been in the UFC, it’s been a camp thing. You’ll find a couple of camps that are saying, ‘oh no this guy’s my friend, I’m not fighting him.’ What? This isn’t personal, this isn’t, ‘oh I hate him, I’m going to fight him.’ You train, you work hard to be the best mixed martial artist you can be, and you’re going out to compete against other mixed martial artists to prove you’re the best.”
“Me personally, what I think, is when one guy says, ‘oh he’s my friend I won’t fight him,’ that means I train with this guy and this guy’s probably going to kick my ass,” White stated. “That’s what I get out of that. I’m not confident enough to fight this guy.”