DALLAS – Dana White won’t gloat over the fact Jake Paul vs. Hasim Rahman Jr. was canceled in the middle of UFC 277. He recognizes that each boxer likely trained hard and lost money as a result – but things still sound fishy to him.
White has long said that not many people can do what the UFC does nearly every single weekend of the calendar year, which is to put on top-tier fights on a consistent basis. Not even former UFC CFO Nakisa Bidarian, who serves as advisor for Jake Paul, and owner of Most Valuable Promotions, the company that promotes Paul’s fights, can pull it off, White surmises.
“Just because you were an accountant here doesn’t mean you know what the f*ck goes on here and doesn’t mean you can run a fight promotion company,” White told MMA Junkie and other reporters at the UFC 277 post-fight news conference. “I think Jake Paul needs to get some different people around him. If he’s going to stay in the sport, he needs to be with guys that actually really know how to put on fights.”
