By Ariel Helwani - Video Reporter and Writer
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Feb 23, 2012 - TOKYO -- MMA Fighting spoke to UFC president Dana White following Thursday's UFC 144 press conference about the organization's return to Japan, the rise and fall of Japanese MMA, Saturday night's card, the Culinary Union's MMA bill of rights suggestion, the return of Nate Marquardt, and much more.
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Dana White Talks UFC's Return to Japan, Culinary Union and Nate Marquardt
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well
someone’s going to have complaints about his next catered affair in las vegas…
by The J on Feb 23, 2012 7:41 AM EST reply actions
Is this all you do Helwani? Interviews? No writing? I keed! I keed!
Great stuff as always. My fav interviews are the ones with Dana after an event.
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
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by xFenixKnightx on Feb 23, 2012 8:26 AM EST reply actions
Censorship
So what’s the reason for censoring Dana saying, “shit”?
by Magna Carta on Feb 23, 2012 10:24 AM EST reply actions
i don't know
but if they are going to censor stuff here i;m just going to watch it on the other sites. no reason for that.
"If guns cause crime then all of mine are defective."
by detroit_fan on Feb 23, 2012 12:25 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I think they’re just used to censoring things because that’s what they did when they were owned by AOL. I don’t know if Vox Media would mind swearing on a MMA website…
by BatmanNewsChris on Feb 23, 2012 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
Dana white is crooked!!!!
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by bignmean on Feb 24, 2012 11:12 PM EST up reply actions
Dana started the interview happy
but he ended it angry
You go out there and start acting like a terrorist, you're gonna get Osama Bin Laden'd
by Rolandando on Feb 23, 2012 12:02 PM EST reply actions
Come on Dana
Someone from a culinary union tries to make a suggestion as to how to improve MMA and the UFC and he flips out and goes bat shit.The fact that the guy’s from a culinary union doesn’t matter,that’s an ad hominem argument.
by dh3240 on Feb 23, 2012 2:04 PM EST reply actions
He’s pissed because the CU are harrassing him. They’re spending union members’ dues on all sorts of things that are unrelated to station casinos.
"If Tyson Griffin was a girl, I would say he has a badonkadonk." -Joe Rogan
by OmoPlata on Feb 23, 2012 8:41 PM EST up reply actions
"We don't customize cards to the place that we're going."
What about UFC 129 in Canada and UFC 134 in Brazil? Pretty much any card in Canada haha…
by killarick on Feb 23, 2012 2:12 PM EST reply actions
How did the customize those cards?
Besides obviously putting on some local talent like they’re doing here.
by doomrider7 on Feb 24, 2012 11:30 AM EST up reply actions
These video's lag on firefox
whats the deal
by Fanfizzle on Feb 23, 2012 2:38 PM EST reply actions
Mention the union and Dana goes batsh*t
and starts playing his same lame BS card about how UFC is bringing in money. Nevermind it all goes into his and Fertittas pocket.
by TTech on Feb 23, 2012 3:05 PM EST reply actions
Dana needs to learn to say to repoters...
I’ll skip that question ,,,his “reputation” is truly being managed by the media as much as he tries to be unbiased or open minded or conservative at times they don’t add up to much more than the person he really is, only with a lot of money and ‘power’… Can’t wait to see Marquardt fight!!!
by iboneu89 on Feb 23, 2012 4:53 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Dana The Great
It is surley this mans of Russian blood DNA line of origeens! It’s maybe also of Khan to berserker heritage to great Spartan but also clasik looney cartoons off Tazmani Devil animal. Krazy b’lat but iron fist leader is MMA global leader much need but shortest interviewing better to this mans of 2 minz max for long interview sometimz krazy wurds fall from it’s mouth. Long interview for another UFC mans with better for it image of sensibility not krazy tazi devil danamite eksploder. UFC coming in Russia is best. Coming soon on us here visit make Moscow event. UFC The Great
Strong Russian Cage Girl. Need MMA husband. Nyet couch potato. Really muscles better.
by Ivana Likitov on Feb 23, 2012 5:05 PM EST reply actions
Hahaha
love it. Never stop
by UncleWaxy on Feb 23, 2012 6:13 PM EST up reply actions
LMAO
How long does it take you to type a paragraph this way?
"Alistair Overeem is a Dutch kickboxer who looks like someone at Marvel comics drew a man genetically engineered to fuck your girlfriend."
Hendo/Bisping:
"He hit him so hard that even gravity got scared. Bisping hung in mid-air for a moment while gravity screamed at inertia, "Did you see that shit!?" Then, after a high five, the two universal forces quit screwing around and yanked Bisping's limp body onto the floor." - quotes by Seanbaby
by superfknmario__ on Feb 23, 2012 5:32 PM EST reply actions
was suppposed to be a reply to "Ivana likitov"
"Alistair Overeem is a Dutch kickboxer who looks like someone at Marvel comics drew a man genetically engineered to fuck your girlfriend."
Hendo/Bisping:
"He hit him so hard that even gravity got scared. Bisping hung in mid-air for a moment while gravity screamed at inertia, "Did you see that shit!?" Then, after a high five, the two universal forces quit screwing around and yanked Bisping's limp body onto the floor." - quotes by Seanbaby
by superfknmario__ on Feb 23, 2012 5:32 PM EST up reply actions
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Strong Russian Cage Girl. Need MMA husband. Nyet couch potato. Really muscles better.
by Ivana Likitov on Feb 23, 2012 6:21 PM EST up reply actions
i enjoy her posts,
Having personally met 3 Russian women , I never really thought they would write as they speak
by iboneu89 on Feb 23, 2012 6:13 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I
I married one ( not mail order or i would have asked for a refund ) and have been to russia many times ….. Many of them speak better english than most americans i know.
by UncleWaxy on Feb 23, 2012 6:16 PM EST up reply actions
OH SNAP!!
that last comment by Dana to Floyd was freakin’ brutal…haha, ZING
by BmoreGoHarder on Feb 23, 2012 6:22 PM EST reply actions
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