{"id":79433,"date":"2013-12-26T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=79433"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:20:44","slug":"anderson-silva-dana-white-is-the-george-bush-of-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/anderson-silva-dana-white-is-the-george-bush-of-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Silva: Dana White Is The George Bush of MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/anderson-silva2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47038\" title=\"anderson-silva2\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/anderson-silva2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think that Dana could let me tryout in taekwondo for the 2016 Olympic Games and let me fight Roy, but if he let me do that, he would need to let other fighters do their things, so he would lose control. [Dana White] is a big dad, but we have our fights all the time. He\u2019s the Bush of MMA.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My biggest goal as a fighter is (fight Roy Jones Jr. in boxing). I watched him compete for many years and it\u2019s a personal dream to fight against him. He said he also wants to fight me, and it would be a great experience.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Brazilian Media, UFC 168 main event fighter, Anderson Silva touched on his ambitions as an athlete and the role UFC boss Dana White plays in keeping his roster in task.<\/p>\n<p><em>(props to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2013\/12\/25\/5242612\/anderson-silva-dana-white-is-the-george-w-bush-of-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a> for the find.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think that Dana could let me tryout in taekwondo for the 2016 Olympic Games and let me fight Roy, but if he let me do that, he would need to let other fighters do their things, so he would lose control. [Dana White] is a big dad, but we have our fights all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[95,215,220,493,621,11,7081,790,6488,5521,6230,930,15,5563,16,3839,1057],"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>Anderson Silva: Dana White Is The George Bush of MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\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\/ufcnews\/anderson-silva-dana-white-is-the-george-bush-of-mma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anderson Silva: Dana White Is The George Bush of MMA | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;I think that Dana could let me tryout in taekwondo for the 2016 Olympic Games and let me fight Roy, but if he let me do that, he would need to let other fighters do their things, so he would lose control. 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