“Funky” Fires Off At Dana, UFC

“I have a hard time with how Dana White treats people.”

“It’s kind of like all of us had that time in high school when we were bullied by the cool group of kids. Then we did something, then the cool group said ‘oh my god, can you be part of our group?’ Then some of us who didn’t have low self esteem said ‘well, you didn’t want me the first time, I’m alright.’ Then some other people, they run, ‘the cool kids want to hang out with me? Yes, please.’ I think it’s kind of one of those things.”

“Even last weekend, Barao, did he make a misake? Yeah, he blew it. He freakin’ blew it, big time. He probably shouldn’t be at 135 pounds. But the way Dana just threw him under the bus like he was a piece of garbage. Where was some human decency there? I think we’ve seen it time after time with Dana. And so I think at the end of the day he cares about his bottom line a lot and he doesn’t care enough about the athletes.”

“Him saying I’m not good enough for the UFC? I’ve got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC. Have you seen some of these guys fighting lately? It’s ridiculous. Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that’s it. I think with having more large organizations in the word, it’s going to be great for the fighters, because the right now the fighters are being underpaid greatly, in my opinion, and I was one who was able to step outside that box and go find a great paycheck somewhere else.”

“Obviously, you know, he says I said a lot stupid s–. I said true s–. If we go all the way back to the start, Ariel, when I made the comment that he was telling lies about the drug testing issue, all I said was, it can’t be done, it is done at the Olympic level. And now we’re seeing in 2014, they’re actually taking those measures to do what I said in 2012, they’re doing in 2014, and they’re getting done because they realize how rampant performance enhancing drugs are in our sport.”

“I’m not going to grovel. I’m not going to be a kiss-up. I think he started with the personal attacks before I did. … If he wanted to meet face to face and talk, we could settle the beef, I’d be open to that.”

During a recent interview with MMAFighting.com’s “The MMA Hour”, One FC welterweight champion, Ben “Funky” Askren went off on Dana White and the talent on the UFC roster.

Is he right?