{"id":47514,"date":"2012-12-17T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=47514"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:23:40","slug":"dana-white-the-ufc-didnt-overlook-hendricks-gsp-asked-for-diaz-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-the-ufc-didnt-overlook-hendricks-gsp-asked-for-diaz-ufc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: The UFC Didn&#8217;t Overlook Hendricks, GSP Asked For Diaz | UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dana-white2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dana-white2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dana white2\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dana-white2.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dana-white2-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dana-white2-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe guy\u2019s never asked us for anything. He\u2019s an awesome champion, he does anything we ask of him, and he asked us for a favor. He wants to fight Diaz. It\u2019s not like people don\u2019t want to see it. The UFC didn\u2019t do that, the champ did. The champ called him out and wanted to fight him. So the UFC didn\u2019t do it, the guy who held the belt did. That\u2019s who he asked us to fight, and like I just said, when somebody goes on a run as long as Georges St-Pierre has, done what he\u2019s does for the sport, for that division and everything else, they ask for a fight that they want, then they\u2019ll get it too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UFC president addressed the media recently and went on record stating that the UFC didn&#8217;t pass up the Hendricks fight in favor of Diaz vs. GSP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe guy\u2019s never asked us for anything. He\u2019s an awesome champion, he does anything we ask of him, and he asked us for a favor. He wants to fight Diaz. 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