{"id":283338,"date":"2018-08-21T11:14:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=283338"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:14:32","slug":"dana-white-unapologetic-bashing-fighters-deserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-unapologetic-bashing-fighters-deserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White unapologetic for bashing his fighters: &#8220;most of them deserved it&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White is not shy about his opinions. The UFC President will let loose on pretty much any subject \u2014 and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/opinion-dana-white-says-francis-ngannou-has-an-ego-problem-but-has-he-looked-in-the-mirror\/\">that includes the fighters he promotes.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his reign as the UFC President, he&#8217;s bashed dozens of UFC stars, from Anderson Silva, to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/georges-st-pierre\/\">Georges St-Pierre<\/a>, to Stipe Miocic, to Tyron Woodley, and most recently,<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/francis-ngannou\/francis-ngannou-doesnt-agree-with-dana-white-saying-he-has-an-ego\/\">\u00a0Francis Ngannou<\/a>.\u00a0And while he typically finds himself under fire when he makes disparaging comments about the fighters that put their health on the line to fatten <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-shares-the-estimated-value-of-the-ufc-after-espn-deal\/\">his already distended wallet<\/a>, he won&#8217;t be making any apologies.<\/p>\n<p>Why? &#8216;Cause they all deserved it. At least, that&#8217;s the way he sees it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uNIzyI\">\u201cGuess what, this isn\u2019t the fun business,\u201d Dana White recent told Fox News.\u00a0(transcript via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmaweekly.com\/dana-white-stands-by-his-harsh-criticism-of-fighters-after-a-poor-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> MMA Weekly<\/a>).\u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t get to go out and put on a terrible performance and act like you just did something incredible. The guys that I went after and the guys that I did that to, if you watched their performances and what happened that night, most of them deserved it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this comment from the UFC President Dana White? Join the debate in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/21\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White is not shy about his opinions. The UFC President will let loose on pretty much any subject \u2014 and that includes the fighters he promotes.\u00a0 Over the course of his reign as the UFC President, he&#8217;s bashed dozens of UFC stars, from Anderson Silva, to Georges St-Pierre, to Stipe Miocic, to Tyron Woodley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":280347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dana White unapologetic for bashing his fighters: &quot;most of them deserved it&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC President Dana White won&#039;t be apologizing for bashing his own fighters over the years. How come? 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