Dillon Danis to the UFC? Not so fast, says Dana White.
After failing in his boxing endeavor against Logan Paul in October, the controversial BJJ star was originally plotting a return to MMA and hoped to sign with the UFC. However, that’d quickly be put into question when Danis announced earlier this month that he’s ‘done fighting’.
White Shuts Down Idea Of Danis Fighting In The UFC
Maybe Danis is taking a page out of training partner Conor McGregor’s book with a premature retirement announcement to get more clicks, but whatever it is, there’s always a chance that Danis makes a comeback… just don’t expect it to be in the Octagon.
“I have no beef with the kid at all. I’ve probably said 2 words to him my whole life. But, every time he’s around, sh*t’s going down. We can’t have that stuff going on here,” UFC CEO Dana White said of Danis fighting in the UFC (via Full Send Podcast).
“A lot of people will see like when guys get into it on stage or something starts to happen, they’re like, oh, they must love this or whatever. No, we don’t love it. We don’t need that sh*t to sell fights. Basically what happens is the athletic commission goes crazy and people start getting fined and they come after us. It’s our job to keep that sh*t under control. That’s why when you see these other events with these guys and everything breaks out like that, it’s a f*cking total unprofessional clown show.”
White Doesn’t Believe ‘The Prime Card’ Did Over A Million Pay-Per-View Buys
Clown show or not, Dillon Danis sure knows how to put on a show and that was evident in the lead-up to his fight with Logan Paul where he made things very, very personal with his constant trolling of Paul’s fiancee Nina Agdal.
As for who all actually tuned in for the boxing bout though, White isn’t buying reports that the event sold 1.3M pay-per-view buys – which would be around what Conor McGregor pulled in for the very successful UFC 205 pay-per-view.
“I don’t know what they did. I haven’t heard about anybody selling a lot of pay per views lately,” White continued. “Let me tell you how hard it is to sell 1.3M pay per view buys. If you did sell 1.3M, if you sold fucking 700K pay-per view-buys, they’d be putting on fights f*cking 10 times a year. When you hear those kind of numbers fly around the pay-per-view world, they’re lying motherf*ckers. Don’t ever believe that shit. You know how much fucking money that is if they went in and cut a deal and did 1.3M pay-per-view buys?
“Anybody who’s been on any of these fucking horrible boxing shows and I like Logan [Paul] and some of these guys are involved in this shit. [But], if you come out and you say that you did 1,300,000 pay per view buys on your event, you’re lying through your f*cking teeth. Lying through your teeth. That amount of money that you would make, they’d be fucking doing pay-per-views all the f*cking time. Let me tell you what, every pay-per-view distributor out there would want them, and Showtime wouldn’t went out of business.”
‘It’s Sh*tty Boxing’
White continued to tear into influencer boxing.
“The production sucks, the f*cking fights end up sucking. It’s sh*tty boxing is what it is. “I’m not trying to shit [on them], these are just facts. To say that they’re doing any numbers, all these different people have tried to invest in this shit, and they’ve tried to raise money and do all this other bullsh*t. People would be fighting over them and throwing fucking truckloads of money at them if they did anywhere near a million buys.
“None of those f*cking guys are doing a million buys,” White added.
