{"id":305017,"date":"2025-11-25T02:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305017\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:44:09","slug":"nakisa-ufc-blacklists-fighters-who-work-with-jake-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305017\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakisa: UFC blacklists fighters who work with Jake Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Apparently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/9\/19\/24249422\/jake-paul-continues-campaign-for-fighter-pay-increase-in-ufc-make-that-change-and-ill-shut-fck-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the war<\/a> between Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White and YouTuber-turned boxer Jake Paul is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/3\/21\/24108032\/dana-white-reveals-next-opponent-jake-paul-if-he-beats-mike-tyson-hes-fighting-clint-eastwood-next\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">far from over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today, however, MVP co-founder and former UFC Chief Strategy Officer\/CFO Nakisa Bidarian fired back, claiming that White\u2019s hatred for Paul runs so deep that fighters who work with MVP or agree to fight Paul are effectively blacklisted from the UFC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dTo be clear, there is a clear distaste for Jake Paul, when you\u2019re saying you want to see him get knocked out, but that\u2019s been well known, and I understand the dynamic that has been built over time,\u201d Bidarian told Ariel Helwani. \u201cTo say he wasn\u2019t aware of [Paul vs. Joshua] is a blatant lie. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/8\/25\/21401485\/corey-anderson-unfazed-dana-whites-lying-takes-umbrage-disloyal-power-players-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana lies frequently<\/a>, so it doesn\u2019t surprise me, but I know for a fact that TKO was aware of this event\u2026Dana pays attention to every single thing that Jake Paul does, whether he wants to admit it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe pays attention so much that there are fighters out there who have guidance from the UFC that says, \u2018Hey, if you fight with MVP or you fight Jake Paul, you\u2019re not welcome here anymore,\u201d Bidarian added. \u201cYou can\u2019t come back, you can\u2019t use the Performance Institute, and you won\u2019t be considered for future fights.\u2019 That\u2019s the reality of how deeply angered they are with what we\u2019ve been able to do. It\u2019s very anticompetitive in many ways from my perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bidarian also took a shot at White\u2019s Powerslap, questioning why Paul vs. Joshua would be considered \u201cbad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201c\u2018It\u2019s bad,\u2019 I think he said. I don\u2019t know what that means. Is it bad because it\u2019s not two world-class Heavyweights? Is it bad because it\u2019s dangerous? That I\u2019m not clear on,\u201d Bidarian concluded. \u201cWhat I will say is that it\u2019s a lot safer than some slap contest, where two people just stand in front of each other with zero defense, hitting each other as hard as they can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently, the war between Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White and YouTuber-turned boxer Jake Paul is far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-305017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305017","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=305017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}