Vernon White has a losing record.
Just because he fought for a (gifted, coming off 2 straight losses) UFC title does not make him “decent”.
I’m not going to bother going through all of their records but they all have plenty of cans in there.
Vernon White never fought for the UFC title. If you are thinking about his fight with Chuck that was before Chuck got the belt.
I would call him more of a journeyman than a "can".
I don't feel like going through every fight on his record (I did peak at his wiki) but I bet he has a decent record against guys his own size.
He beat a few decent fighters and yes, he lost a lot but many of those losses were to really good fighters. Bas Rutten, Funaki, Frank Shamrock, Pedro Rizzo, Prime Chuck, Machida
(Aka guys he realistically never should have been in the cage with.)
** Also he was fighting in the Vale Tudo, NHB, old school "OG" era,
a lot of his losses were HW/open weight (pre weight classes) and Vernon is a guy who fought at MW.
He probably could have had a better record if he fought more appropriate opponents, guys his size and reasonably matched to his skill level. He fought a lot of killers.
He beat Marvin Eastman who had wins over Rampage, Jason MacDonald, Alan Belcher, Terry Martin
He also beat Matushenko, David Terrell.
He isn't as bad as his record looks if you just read the win loss draw #s.