[quote]Mick28 wrote:
Is Dana White behind this shit? I wouldn’t put anything past that slime.[/quote]
You are giving Dana WAY too much credit.
It’s one thing to think he exerts undue influence on NSAC, where one of his partners (Lorenzo Fertitta) was a former vice chairman of the commission, one of his employees (Mark Ratner) used to be the Executive Director of the commission, and his company is a major source of revenue for the commission. I personally don’t buy it, but I can certainly see why the tinfoil hat crowd has their suspicions.
But to think he also can control state commissions across the country is ludicrous. The UFC hasn’t held an event in New Jersey for the better part of three years. How in the blue hell would the Dana be able to coerce them into doing anything? Hell, he couldn’t even convince them to allow Big John McCarthy to referee a match, yet you think he could convince them to rig the judging in a match?
Dana is not some omnipotent Machiavellian mastermind. He’s just a ruthless businessman with a foul mouth who often speaks without engaging his brain first. He ain’t bright enough to pull off all of the conspiracies people accuse him of without getting caught. Nobody is.