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Hockey Guy
He broke the story that Lesnar would be fighting at UFC 200 & Dana was butthurt because he wanted to break the news during Saturday's UFC 199 broadcast.
today's mma hour is worth a listen, Ariel basically tells the story of the last 5 years and his UFC problems. The craziest story is the one he won't talk about right now, which is when dana's security assaulted and choked Ariel for asking Chuck Liddell questions at an event about 25 ppvs ago. It had been hinted at long ago, and people like frontrowbrian talked about it, but Ariel essentially confirmed it today, though not in those words.
In general, tho, Lorenzo hates Ariel and has no respect for any reporters, especially those who he feels fuck with his business, and has the power to do something about it. That's the entirety of it in a single sentence. Dana is merely the guy who does the dirty work, I don't think he takes any of it personally long term.
Couple years ago, Dave Meltzer told a great story about Dana and his outlook in general. After Dave wrote something or other, Dana called/texted him and told Dave that he was going to publicly rip on him later that day, and wanted to give him a heads up, or something like that. Dave thanked him, later that day Dana went off on Dave at a press conference, and their relationship continued on as if nothing ever happened. I'll see if I can dig that up, it was a pretty funny story about how the UFC handles shit in general.
edit: The Meltzer thing was about an article Dave wrote on shitty UFC on Fox ratings.
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Here's all I want to say.
Dana called me and told me what he was going to do ahead of time saying he didn't want to blindside me. He was pissed at the article in last week's Observer and if he's pissed he doesn't hold it in. And I've got no issue with that or with him. I wish he hadn't brought up the Yahoo thing just because it brings sympathy to me that I don't want and that it probably does him no benefit to the outside world to be doing. It appears he's kicking a guy when he's down and I'm not down, so it didn't bother me, but to the outside world, I don't know how it comes across.
Rather than rallying around me or saying Dana's hurting into Eric or Vince, just read the article. If you think I wasn't fair and presenting both sides of the story, then he's right to be mad. If you think I was fair, then that's cool. Any discussions should be about the points in the article because if anyone thinks I'm mad at him, well, that's the furthest thing from the case.
As far as I'm concerned, I thought the article was fair. He didn't. We've disagreed before and agree far more than we disagree when it comes to the product." |
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