Schaub offers White olive branch and stick in the eye

Retired UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub and UFC president Dana White recently feuded on the social network. It began when Schaub criticized expectations that elite kickboxers coming into MMA will be able to perform immediately at a high level. Israel Adesanya, an elite kickboxer coming into MMA and performing at a high level, took issue with the remarks. White then told Adesanya to ignore the “MORON, F***in tool idiot, with a 6-5 record.” Schaub then said he was referring to fighters like Gokhan Saki, who entered the UFC last year with the sole MMA experience of losing to James Zikic in 2004; Adesanya, by contrast, entered the UFC with an 11-0 MMA record. Further harsh words followed.

Schaub then posted a video on his Brendan Schaub Fan Channel titled, Brendan Schaub Ends Dana White Drama | “You’re Wasting Your Time On Me.” In it, Schaub pointedly lamented White’s criticism of fighters over the years.

I can’t understand why he does this to fighters, said Schaub, as transcribed by MMA Fighting. He’s notoriously done this for years and years and years where he just talks s*** about the guys. And they’re not doing well. Those guys just lost the biggest fight of their lives, they’re gonna have to pay. And they’re not feeling good about themselves and then the boss, who you’re looking for any amount of approval and it would go so far, you’re the captain of the ship, when you’re s****ing on all the employees on the ship, it doesn’t make people feel good. When you try to lead by fear, it doesn’t work.

People go, ‘Dana’s worth whatever, 400 million dollars,’ that’s fine. To me, that doesn’t mean you’re a successful leader. That doesn’t mean s*** to me. There’s a lot of working wheels that go into making that deal happen. It’s not just him getting it done. What he’s done with the sport is great. He took that torch, ran with it, got it done, sold the company, it’s a major sport now. That’s great. We should tip our hats to him for that.

But if you think that with the platform I have I’m not going to criticize you for s***ing on these fighters who don’t have much, financially, they don’t have a platform, they have to literally punch other men in the face to make a living. And for you to bring men and women down like that is insane. You’re never going to get a free ride here. Ever. Ever, ever, ever, for as long as I have this microphone in my face, you will always get criticized for that. Always. It’s not cool.

Why be mean about it? Why be a bully in this day and age? Why continue to s*** on people? You’ve won, man. You’ve won. You’re the CEO of a billion-dollar company and you’re trying to talk shit to somebody who retired four years ago on social media. What are you doing? What are we doing?

Imagine somebody else, the head of a corporation, they’d lose their job. Talk s*** to people like that. What the f*** are you doing? What are you doing? It makes no sense. It makes zero sense.

Why do you think this is getting so many likes? Why do you think all those people are reaching out to me? Why do you think this is the topic of all this stuff? Because you’re a dick. And no one can say anything because they’re scared to lose their job. I’m not. I need nothing from you. I need no approval, I don’t need promotion, I don’t work for you, I do none of that. I tell you the truth. You’re a dick.

You think that makes you look smart? Smart people don’t do that. People who are comfortable with themselves and don’t have ego issues don’t do that. People who have made it don’t do that. People who are comfortable in their skin don’t do that. That’s your problem, brother. It’s just your problem, that’s it.

After all that, I still have no hate in my heart. I have zero hate towards Dana White. If he called me up right now and went, ‘Hey man, let’s stop this s***. Let’s do this.’ Cool, man. I have zero animosity.

I don’t have time for hate. I don’t have time to continue to f***ing come after you on social media. You asked for this. That tweet, I wrote that on a plane. It took me three minutes to knock that out. It took me three minutes. I didn’t ask for this. I don’t want this. I don’t need this negativity. I’m too busy. We both made it, everything’s all good.