Dana White Q&A: UFC President Previews UFC 230 Heavyweight Bout
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| Add cDana White discusses UFC 230, Derrick Lewis's excellent social media game, Daniel Cormier's legacy and tells his story about Whitey Bulger. aption |
“Oh, I’m so pumped for this combat. So pumped.”
Dana White is at the phone from Los Angeles, a couple hours before boarding his late-night time flight to New York City for UFC 230. Weigh-ins and staredowns are impending at Madison Square Garden, however the lead-as much as Saturday’s foremost occasion—reigning champion Daniel Cormier vs. Knockout artist/meme fanatic Derrick Lewis for the heavyweight belt—has been cordial and uneventful, store for Lewis’s 1/2-baked insistence that Cormier disrespected fried hen.
Certainly, there has been not one of the same venom spewed previous to UFC 229 in Las Vegas, where Khabib Nurmagomedov defended his lightweight name by way of filing Conor McGregor earlier than defending his honor via leaping into the gang to assault certainly one of McGregor’s cronies. Later that night time, White regarded inside the press conference room searching fatigued and embarrassed. “This isn't what we’re about,” the UFC president told journalists. “This isn't always how we act. It’s unlucky that the night time the most people are watching, this s---show is going on.”
Looking back—predictably sufficient, of course—the cage-aspect skirmish stored UFC within the mainstream discussion lengthy after it might’ve disappeared if McGregor had definitely tapped and that changed into that. Then there was the publish-fight interview given through Lewis, who first went viral for knocking out Alexander with 11 seconds to spare, after which for telling absolutely everyone approximately the temperature of his testes. No doubt this helped him score the quick-word possibility to combat Cormier, a UFC legend who plans to retire after his fortieth birthday subsequent March 20.
Three days till the card kicks off, White spoke with SI.Com approximately Cormier’s cemented legacy, Lewis’s particular knockout strength, the continued ramifications of the McGregor-Nurmagomedov brawl and the story that he continually tells approximately now-deceased Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger.
Sports Illustrated: Break it down for me.
Dana White: The principal occasion?
SI: Yeah.
DW: Well, Cormier, obviously, coming off his win over Stipe [Miocic], and he’s undefeated as a heavyweight, going against Derrick Lewis. This guy is always in the combat, man. He swings for the fences, tries to knock you out. And if he catches you, he usually does.
He’s very fun, hard, long lasting. I suppose it’s going to be thrilling.
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