Dana White Friday night pre-UFC 100 Q&A notes

Dana White Friday night pre-UFC 100 Q&A notes
By Bryan Alvarez

Talked about what a big deal Televisa was. 100 million people will see it. Opens up the market, new fans, new fighters coming up.

Doesn't want to do stadiums because fans wouldn't be able to see from way up high. Except Hawaii, which will be at Aloha Stadium.

Says he'll make a deal with Fedor if he wants to come over. "As soon as Affliction crashes and burns." People cheer, including people wearing Affliction shirts. Regarding fighting Atencio, says he (Dana) is 39, almost 40. "My days of fighting are long gone and far behind me." Says Atencio is a fucking idiot and a bad promoter. Says he's not going to waste one minute thinking about Atencio.

Fan asks about 135 and 145 in UFC. Dana says what's wrong with WEC? Says the only thing different is weight classes. Well, and payoffs. And exposure.

Says he's fine with competition. Never said anything negative about Strikeforce and never will. Does hate dipshits that blow through millions and millions and crash and burn. Says he likes almost everyone in this business. Butts heads with lots of guys like BJ, but he loves him. He says his relationship with Tito is probably the worst-ever in sports. "But that's about it." Says he really likes more everyone else.

Has talked about a Saturday Night Fights, but with WEC, UFC, PPVs, specials, etc. not now. He says one of these days when the talent level increases they'll do more fights, which scares him.

He says probably a Fight Night in Miami next year.

Was asked about unions. Says it doesn't happen in fighting sports for, well, the same reason it'll never happen in pro-wrestling. Says he would have no issues with it.

Guarantees Toronto next year, says it'll be biggest MMA event in North America.

Says they try to keep tickets cheap. Yes.

Says he likes Nick Diaz and we'll probably see him again in UFC.

Fan asks about UFC in Sacramento. Dana said they just left. Fans says we want UFC. Dana wants to know why everyone is shitting on WEC.

Was asked about big weight gap between 205 and 265. Clearly he has no plans of adding another one in between. "If you can make a lighter weight you better learn to cut," he said.

Asked about Vitor and noted he was under contract with someone else. Just said when the contract was up they were interested in him.

Talking about US vs. Canada, Mexico vs. Canada, Canada vs. UK, etc for future TUF seasons.

Regarding Japan, he said it's a very tough place to do business. He said they'll kill him if he ever goes to Japan. "There are some bad guys in the business over there." He said they bought Pride with intention of keeping it alive and they made that pretty much impossible. Said yes, we'll go back, just have to figure out how. "All these crooked fuckers are keeping us out of there right now."

"It's a fact, my friend, we're going to Scotland."

They asked about future Fan Expos. He said this was the first one and they wanted to see how it did. UFC Magazine was a test run to see if it would work and they're going to do it again. He said Expo was a success and they'd do it again, but not necessarily always in Vegas. He said doing stuff like this is easy in Vegas because the weather is always good and, well, it's Vegas.