Dana goes full retard on Twitter

[wowspare]

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/5/20/5736028/dana-whites-epic-twitter-meltdown

Dana White and the UFC are in a bit of an uphill battle with UFC 173's promotion. The main event sees Renan Barao defending his UFC bantamweight title against TJ Dillashaw.

Barao is a legitimate top three pound-for-pound fighter in the world but he is the king of one of the dreaded "lower weight classes," in a down PPV market and doesn't speak English (which matters, regardless of how much we may wish it didn't).

That was the point that Ben Fowlkes tried to make in an article at MMA Junkie titled The Hard Sell: Renan Barao is the world's best fighter:

First Barao was a ​

 

[Bob Sapp Junior]

This is Dana being fairly restrained, actually.

 

[OAR]

interesting....

 

[SKN TTK]

Chill out, Dana.

Holy shit.

 

[Steve08]

The problem is that Dana insists that Barao is one of the p4p best in the world while failing to actually market him as such because Jon Jones, and lack of realization that casuals think "bigger = better" when that's actually not the case. Yet, the UFC's marketing angle is focused almost entirely around this.

"I don't read any of them" lol smooth...

 

[themainman]

i wouldnt say full, maybe quarter or one-third retard

 

[Palaina10]

lol, is normal for Dana on twitter.

 

[countswagula]

Oh no, Dana's sticking up for one of his fighters

 

[Shael]

He'd fit right in here.

 

[Augustus Caesar]

Dana did indeed come off quite badly there. He thought that Ben was questioning Barao's skill, I understand how Dana got there, but he was wrong and failed to admit so after the fact.

 

[SuperBadAzz]

Dana makes a good point when he says Barao is a badass who finishes fights & that's what fans want. Other than that he looks completely ignorant.

 

[ReadWrite]

He just said Barao is 6'5"?!

 

[Kalmah]

That isn't full retard.

 

[MayhemMonkey]

I dont see whats wrong with what Dana says here

 

[One Inch Punch]

I don't know why Dana even responds to this stuff. He would be better off if he kept his mouth shut. He comes across as a stubborn bully.

 

[dawnignited]

Dana going full dickrider that's for sure.

 

[wellsdj1]

Dana even admitted he didn't read the article and Ben Folkes called him out on it.

 

[Steve08]

Dana did indeed come off quite badly there. He thought that Ben was questioning Barao's skill, I understand how Dana got there, but he was wrong and failed to admit so after the fact.

This. What an inane presumption lol. He's going off over an article he didn't even read.

 

[MayhemMonkey]

also lol'd at "barao is a BAD ASS that fishes people"

is he in the mafia?

 

[nyduccie]

haha. Definitely full retard.