Dana White finally breaks his silence and talks about UFC 270

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-White called UFC 270 a great night and was happy that they broke the gate record.

-White said Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou would be a big fight if they could get it done. He's also excited about the upcoming Oliveira vs. Gaethje fight.

-White calls Ngannou's methods "genius" for beating Gane based on the circumstances with his injury.

-White says that he walked out of the arena right after the co-main event because there was something going on backstage that he was dealing with. White calls the people that think he was disrespecting Ngannou "idiots".

-White says that his ultimate goal is to do the biggest pay-per-view fight ever done. He wants people from around the whole world to be watching at once and get 7-8 million PPV buys

-White hopes to do an event in Africa and in France and says that they would have already had the COVID situation not happened.

-Dana White when asked if he is still doing jiu-jitsu says that his workout routine is "let's not get fat and let's not get hurt"

-White says that the UFC 270 main event wasn't what he thought it was going to be, but it was a brilliant game plan by Francis to do what he did. White hopes that Ngannou vs. Jones will be one of the big fights of 2022 and if they can make it, they will.

-White says that if Henry Cejudo wants to come back and face Yan/Sterling or Volkanovski, he needs to go through the proper process. He says that, as well as Ngannou/Jones are the potential super fights that come to mind.

Source: From Dana White’s Q&A with ESPN
 
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Thank you for the cliffs!

But this

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-White says that he walked out of the arena right after the co-main event because there was something going on backstage that he was dealing with. White calls the people that think he was disrespecting Ngannou "idiots".

Must have been some heavy stuff going on that was more important than the Heavyweight title unification bout.

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I knew his absence had nothing to do with Francis. Those who thought it did should feel pretty stupid now.
 
The "backstage incident" probably was something like this: the WME overlords forced Dana to not attend the press conference so they could have a little more time to think about how to respond to the journalists asking the painful questions. Which still means Francis had them in a big ol' chokehold.

Francis bless
 
If they wanted to, Ngannou could get paid in the neighborhood to fight Jones that he could Fury. No reason it couldn't be promoted and funds applied to quell all of this boxing talk, he wants one big payday because that is all he would get in boxing.
 
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