being \u2018checked out\u2019<\/a> of MMA. He doesn\u2019t seem to know what\u2019s happening a lot of the time, nor does he particularly seem to care. This level of disinterest was apparent when the Baldfather was asked an innocuous question at the UFC Belgrade press conference.<\/p>\n\u201cOne more question for Dana,\u201d a reporter in the crowd asked. \u201cWhich fights on this card are you looking forward to most?\u201d<\/p>\n
White was silent for a moment before chuckling and saying, \u201cThat was a s–tty question, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can see him glancing down at his notes on the podium, which apparently did not have any bullet point sizzle on the fighters competing in Belgrade this weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, obviously everyone\u2019s always excited about the main event,\u201d White said. \u201cUh, I\u2019m just hoping for \u2026 I want a few \u2018Holy s–t\u2019 moments on Saturday night so hopefully we get a few of those.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was pretty obvious what just happened: White was basically asked to name one fight on the card and couldn\u2019t do it. \u201cWhat fights should we be excited for?\u201d is about the simplest softball question you can ask a promoter, and he whiffed on it.<\/p>\n
Fan response online was swift and brutal.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe couldn\u2019t name more than three fighters on the card if you lined them up in front of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBro doesn\u2019t have a clue who\u2019s fighting on that card\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDana has been phoning it in more & more since he got the big $. Can\u2019t blame him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish a reporter would flat out ask him why he doesn\u2019t care about the UFC anymore\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can you be so s\u2014tty at your job and be successful?\u201d<\/p>\n
As for what he could have said, rising Serbian star Uros Medic is an action fighter who\u2019s on a three fight knockout streak taking on the always game D-Rod, fresh out of Mexican prison. It\u2019s a fight that guarantees fireworks, so don\u2019t blink! Former champ and legendary Polish Power purveyor Jan Blachowicz will attempt to prove he still belongs at the top when he faces 10-0 New Zealand prospect Navajo Stirling, who steps in on a week\u2019s notice in the biggest fight of his career.<\/p>\n
Debuting UFC fighter Milos Janicic has scored a finish in every single one of his 19 wins. Hometown Serbian fighter Vlasto Cepo is expected to crush his opponent. And Mateusz Rebecki has earned Fight of the Night honors in three of his four past fights.<\/p>\n
This level of indifference from White underscores a real problem with the company right now: it\u2019s run like a conveyor belt, churning out events and matches week after week with no particular effort or attention made towards actually promoting 95% of the fights going down or any \u2018Holy s\u2014t\u2019 moments that emerge.<\/p>\n
If the guy running the UFC doesn\u2019t bother to care what\u2019s happening on his own cards week to week, why should fans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t name any of the fighters from this weekend\u2019s upcoming UFC Fight Night: Medi\u0107 vs. Rodriguez card in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-835597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}