UFC President Dana White sat down with FUEL TV’s Ariel Helwani to discuss some of the most heated topics going on in the UFC at the moment. The majority of the conversation was geared towards the cancellation of UFC 151, in which White made it clear that he had, “No regrets whatsoever” in cancelling the card. He even agreed with Helwani at one point and said that Jon Jones and his team were not the only ones to blame for the situation occurring.
“Dan Henderson knew two weeks before the fight. Two weeks before he told me he was injured, he knew. And if he had given me those two weeks, like he should have, this fight might have happened.”
Jones said that he wouldn’t let Chael Sonnen talk his way into a title fight at the 205lbs division. Is this what almost happened?
“He was the only guy to accept the fight with Jon. He’s the only one willing to step up. It’s one thing if you’re trying to talk your way over a bunch of people because you talked, but the reality is he’s the only guy who’
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September 05, 2012
