{"id":108741,"date":"2014-08-18T08:14:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=108741"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:41:18","slug":"dana-white-agrees-with-sara-mcmann-admits-octagon-canvas-needs-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-agrees-with-sara-mcmann-admits-octagon-canvas-needs-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Agrees With Sara McMann, Admits Octagon Canvas Needs Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/video-dana-whites-ufc-170-post-fight-media-scrum\/dana-white-png-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87515\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-White-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dana White PNG\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-White-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-White-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Dana-White-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following her razor close split decision win over Lauren Murphy this past Saturday, former women&#8217;s bantamweight title challenger Sara McMann complained there was sand all over the Octagon canvas and that she slipped multiple times on the slick canvas.<\/p>\n<p>McMann commented in the post-fight press conference about it saying:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI didn\u2019t like the canvas, and there\u2019s sand on it,\u201d McMann said post-fight. \u201cI found sand all over my body and I had a little bit of sand in my eye. I\u2019ve fought on canvases like that before. \u2026 I don\u2019t know about the other fighters, but I was really struggling because I use a lot of dynamic movement. I really push hard off my feet when I was standing and then I drive a lot off my toes. I think it got a little bit in my head that I slipped a couple times on my feet. When I was pushing, my legs were slipping out from under me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UFC President Dana White agreed with McMann and admitted that the UFC has been working on a better design for a canvas for years.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/08\/following-fighter-complaints-ufc-president-dana-white-says-octagon-canvas-changes-in-the-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working on it forever. We\u2019ve literally been working on that forever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe sandy stuff is that spray that we spray on there that makes it sticky,\u201d White said. \u201cIt does, it gets all sandy. It just happened to all the girls on \u2018The Ultimate Fighter.\u2019 We are actually looking at a couple of different options for that right now too. We\u2019re trying some new things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following her razor close split decision win over Lauren Murphy this past Saturday, former women&#8217;s bantamweight title challenger Sara McMann complained there was sand all over the Octagon canvas and that she slipped multiple times on the slick canvas. 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