DFW anticipates WEC lightweights moving to UFC
Sergio Non: How come the regular UFC faces, if you will, are taking more of an active role this time…
Sergio Non: How come the regular UFC faces, if you will, are taking more of an active role this time for WEC?
Dana White: The way I look at it is, it’s a Zuffa promotion, and this is the team for pay-per-view. Obviously when the WEC is on Versus, they have their team and everything else, but this is the pay-per-view team.
SN: At what point do you and the broadcast team get stretched too thin?
DFW: I’m stretched way too thin. Me and my employees are stretched way too thin. But that’s the business we’re in. What are we going to do?
Listen, we’ve got all these guys under contract. I either do this Faber-Aldo fight now or I do it a month from now. We’ve got to get these guys their contract fights. It’s time.
SN: You’ve got a lightweight title fight on the card. What’s the advantage to having an overlap at 155 between WEC and UFC?
DFW: I actually think it’s kind of cool. I think eventually what we do is, we’re going to continue to add to lighter weights, and you’ll end up seeing these (WEC) guys go into the UFC, the 155 pounders.
SN: So once you add flyweight or divisions like that, you can move WEC’s lightweights and move them into UFC, is what you’re saying?
DFW: Yup.
SN: Until that happens, how do you avoid having WEC’s lightweight division viewed as a lesser version of UFC’s?
DFW: I don’t know. I don’t know.
Listen, you saw how everybody, because he was from Japan, everybody thought Aoki was — you know, all these guys get overhyped coming from all these other places. The guys in WEC are real guys.
