{"id":151040,"date":"2025-09-17T19:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151040\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:24:06","slug":"dana-white-hints-one-of-mmas-most-successful-stars-could-return-to-the-ufc-after-being-banned-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151040\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White hints one of MMA\u2019s most successful stars could return to the UFC after being banned in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dana White could allow one of the biggest names in MMA to attend UFC events again.<\/p>\n

The President of the world\u2019s premier mixed martial arts organization is never afraid to express how he feels.<\/p>\n

White once raged at Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva for their iconic brawl<\/a>, and in 2016, he was rendered furious with an MMA journalist.<\/p>\n

The writer in question received a ban from attending his shows.<\/p>\n

WOW: Dana White named his favorite fight in UFC history\u2026 \u2018The roof nearly came off that building\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DanaPhoto by Cooper Neill\/Zuffa LLCDana White could mend his relationship with Ariel Helwani<\/p>\n

As per talkSPORT<\/a>, Ariel Helwani<\/a>, who has won the Fighters Only MMA Journalist of the Year Award every year since 2010, was banned for breaking the news that Brock Lesnar<\/a> would return at UFC 200 and that Conor McGregor<\/a> would face Nate Diaz<\/a> in a rematch at UFC 202.<\/p>\n

However, with almost a decade having passed, Dana White<\/a> could be ready to bury the hatchet.<\/p>\n

During an interview with Impaulsive, the 56-year-old asked Logan Paul<\/a> how Helwani is doing, to which the YouTuber responded: \u201cHe\u2019s upset that the relationship is what it is with the UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n

The businessman responded: \u201cI\u2019m upset about it too.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we should figure this thing out; we should probably all get back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe Rogan urges Dana White to make a massive UFC rule change<\/p>\n

While White has had a frosty relationship with Helwani over the years, his friendship with Joe Rogan<\/a> has remained solid.<\/p>\n

However, the podcaster still wants the entrepreneur to change things.<\/p>\n

In a plea to his buddy, Rogan asked Dana White to make a UFC rule change<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White could allow one of the biggest names in MMA to attend UFC events again. The President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[42843,49,48,10359,641,638,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-151040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ariel-helwani","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-dana-white","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}