Dana White, who is incidentally now a fully fledged citizen of Abu Dhabi, has returned to Fight Island with a fight card topped by two title fights and host of other interesting match-ups, and has previewed Saturday’s evening’s card with The Mac Life’s Oscar Willis.
White on the Blachowicz vs. Teixeira main event
“They’ve been in the UFC, they’ve been fighting the best fighters in the world. It doesn’t surprise me. Both of these guys have been on top of their game for a while. They got their *whatever* together and went back on winning streaks, and here they are — both fighting for the title.”
White on Khamzat Chimaev
“It’s interesting to see. He burst onto the scene, became a huge fan favourite — and even yesterday, in 20 minutes his staredown with Li did a million views. People love this guy. It’s going to be interesting to see how he bounces back after such a bad run of Covid. The beauty of these types of fights with these types of guys. Li just is an absolute savage. That guy came here to fight and he came here to win, which is going to make the fight even that much more fun.”
White on Dan Hooker
“Absolute stud. Nobody wants to fight Islam. Nobody wants to fight this guy. Hooker easily could have said, ‘I just fought. I’m going to spend some time with my family. You want me to fight him, give me something down the road. I’ll prepare for him, you know, have a specific camp for him’. No. He jumped on the opportunity to fight Islam. I love guys like Dan and he’s an absolute stud.”
White on Nate Diaz
“Nate makes a lot of money. Nate isn’t some guy that doesn’t make a lot of money. For Nate, you get to this point in your career and you get to a certain age where you have to be honest with yourself. Can I stick around here? Do I want to sign a four, six, eight fight deal to mix it up with these young, baddest dudes in the world. It’s a question that all these guys eventually have to ask themselves. He makes a lot of money here, he’ll make a lot of money somewhere else too. Do you want to stay and fight these savages?”
