{"id":296381,"date":"2018-12-29T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=296381"},"modified":"2018-12-29T16:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T00:18:26","slug":"dana-white-says-it-means-nothing-to-him-that-fans-fighters-are-upset-about-ufc-232-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-says-it-means-nothing-to-him-that-fans-fighters-are-upset-about-ufc-232-relocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White says it &#8216;means nothing&#8217; to him that fans, fighters are upset about UFC 232 relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 232 is <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-232-live-results\/\">now underway<\/a> \u2014 but not in Las Vegas, as initially planned. Instead, the card goes down inside The Forum, in Inglewood, California, outside Los Angeles.\u00a0That&#8217;s because the UFC moved the card, in its entirety, from one city to the other, after the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused to license former UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones for his main event title fight with Alexander Gustafsson. This unprecedented move, which occurred on just six days&#8217; notice, caused massive <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-232-fighters-share-frustration-about-cards-location-change\/\">headaches for fighters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-holiday-message-backfires-as-fans-decry-ufc-232-move-in-replies\/\">fans<\/a> alike \u2014 but UFC President Dana White says that &#8220;means nothing&#8221; to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I pull the trigger, man, we roll,\u201d Dana White told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/12\/ufc-232-dana-white-defiant-on-criticism-over-jon-jones-relocation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a> of the controversial decision to move UFC 232 from Las Vegas to LA. \u201cI don\u2019t ever go, \u2018We made the wrong decision.\u2019 I don\u2019t listen to criticism. Other people\u2019s opinions mean nothing to me. I make decisions, and we roll. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White added that, despite this last minute relocation, UFC 232 will go down in front of a solid-out crowd. Apparently, this fact has been enough to satisfy some of the fighters on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard some of the fighters saying, \u2018Stop talking to us about this [change]. We\u2019re good. We\u2019re in L.A. We\u2019re fighting.\u2019 The arena is sold out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Making this move I thought we might do a $300,000-$400,000 gate right after Christmas. We killed it. This thing\u2019s sold out. We\u2019re going to put on a great show (tonight), and the fight is going to be awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on these comments from UFC President Dana White?<\/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 12\/29\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 232 is now underway \u2014 but not in Las Vegas, as initially planned. Instead, the card goes down inside The Forum, in Inglewood, California, outside Los Angeles.\u00a0That&#8217;s because the UFC moved the card, in its entirety, from one city to the other, after the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused to license former UFC light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54459,"featured_media":294039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,39610],"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 says it &#039;means nothing&#039; to him that fans, fighters are upset about UFC 232 relocation | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC President Dana White doesn&#039;t care what people think about the decision to move UFC 232 from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-says-it-means-nothing-to-him-that-fans-fighters-are-upset-about-ufc-232-relocation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White says it &#039;means nothing&#039; 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