{"id":125103,"date":"2015-01-08T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=125103"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:57:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:57:17","slug":"dana-white-biggest-january-ufc-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-biggest-january-ufc-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: &#8220;This is the biggest January in UFC History!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dana-white-source-internet1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115713\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dana-white-source-internet1.jpg\" alt=\"Dana white source internet\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dana-white-source-internet1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dana-white-source-internet1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Dana-white-source-internet1-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c2015 is starting off with amazing fights. It\u2019s the best January in the company\u2019s history. And all these fights lead to bigger fights. If you look at the Cormier vs. Jones, then Gustafsson vs. Rumble, then the winners of those fight and that will be a great fight. You\u2019ve got Vitor vs. Weidman, then Anderson. If Anderson wins, he can fight the winner of either Vitor or Weidman. Rousey fights Cat Zingano, then she\u2019ll fight again in July. If Conor wins, then he fights Aldo, which is then the biggest fight ever in that division.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During last night&#8217;s edition of UFC Tonight on FOX Sports 1, UFC President Dana White addressed a slew of topics, including GSP, Brock Lesnar, Diaz vs. Silva, and more.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the entire video replay &nbsp;of the interview HERE. Remaining transcript below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UFC president Dana White on who comes back in 2015:<\/strong> \u201cI believe GSP will be back. Brock Lesnar is still under contract with the WWE and he knows he can call me when that contract is up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>White on<\/strong> <strong>Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting fight. After the injury, where is Anderson going to be mentally? He does the right thing and is going to be in shape, but will he throw the leg kicks the way he used to? Nick Diaz hasn\u2019t fought in a while. So who knows, we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>White on Jon Jones checking into rehab<\/strong>: \u201cRight now, all we\u2019re concerned with is getting Jon better &#8211; getting him taken care of and getting him healed. We\u2019ll make some decisions later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>White on Rory MacDonald not getting the next title shot after being promised it:<\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s tough, you say a guy is next in line, but you have a war with those first two fights, and Johny [Hendricks] won one and Robbie [Lawler] the other, a trilogy makes sense. He\u2019s now next in line after this coming fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>White on if teammates TJ Dillashaw and Urijah Faber will fight each other for the title:<\/strong> \u201cThat\u2019s possible. Those guys have made it clear they\u2019ll fight each other. But it\u2019s not the plan right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>White on if Cain Velasquez will return and fight in Mexico City against Fabricio Werdum for the heavyweight title:<\/strong> \u201cThat\u2019s the plan. As long as everything goes our way, that fight should happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c2015 is starting off with amazing fights. 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