Since it has been several weeks since the last UFC event, many pundits were interested in Dana White’s take on the Jon Jones – Daniel Cormier media brawl once the traditional post-fight media scrum started.
The UFC President quickly apologized for the situation and the ripple effect it caused thereafter, and even proclaimed that this would not become commonplace in the promotion.
“You want my personal opinion? Our bad. It’s our bad,” White stated in the post-fight press conference. “These guys are fighters. They’re two of the baddest dudes on the planet. They’re going face-to-face to stare off. We have to make sure that doesn’t happen and shouldn’t happen, but it did.”
While the majority of the media attention was directed at the brawl, there was a subsequent leak from an ESPN interview where the two competitors exchanged less than friendly terms following the taping of the video interview.
While the details were never released to the public, White revealed that the tape was leaked because someone was filming it without the consent of the two fighters.
“I know how the clip got out there,” White said. “Every time you do those transmissions, those transmissions out there, they go to tons of media and they’re jumping from station to station. Somebody was on there actually filming when they were talking.”
While the leaked tape captured a barrage of verbal abuse from both men, it also caught a death threat from the light-heavyweight champion.
White, however, says that that was not even the worst of what they said to each other.
“You think that’s bad? You should see the other stuff we have that they were saying to each other that people didn’t get. It was pretty nasty.”
Transcription taken from MMAJunkie.com.
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