Watch the press conference video here (or here) and hopefully in the extended entry starting at 4pm ET, of course feeling free to live blog your reactions in the comments section of this post.
Notable exchange:
Question: “What about more weight classes?”
Dana White: “If we do any more weight classes, it’s going to be lower. Adding lighter weight classes.”
Question: “What are the chances of that happening? And how soon if it does happen?”
White: “Very good and probably very soon. We are doing like three fights a month next year.”
— Video is up and in extended entry. Tweet updates from Kevin Iole:
Dana White: These guys are in the mix (to fight the Lesnar-Carwin winner).
Dana White: Nogueira in best shape I’ve ever seen. He actually looks like Little Nog.
White on Maia-Marquardt fight: Trying to figure out if it’s a title eliminator myself. I’ll decide after what I see on Saturday.
White: I don’t think Couture will be too excited to get Nogueira on the ground.
Nogueira: I’m lean, faster and have good motivation to train when fighting someone so good.
White said UFC 103 in Dallas is sold out.
White said let’s just say we’ve gotten it done and we’re going to Vancouver. He didn’t say when
White hints that WEC and UFC may merge, but wouldn’t answer directly.
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HT: UFC.com