Dana White Explains To ESPN Why UFC 151 Was Canceled

JOHN!!! WHY???!!!

lol, “we can hear the upsetment in your voice.” hahaha.

Could it be that the rest of the card was so weak (especially lacking name fighters) that he was forced to cancel? Plenty of cards in the past have lost one of the top two fights and went on. Maybe he should put together a more solid lineup and he wouldnt have to cancel the whole card. Opinions?

hmmm never happened in the history of the sport, what about tito ortiz ducking chuck

@azamat_bagatov: COULD NOT AGREE MORE. They’ve been watering down the PPV cards all year, and this isn’t the first time Uncle Fester has pulled this by playing the blame game. Remember Anderson Silva vs Thales Leites, then Silva vs Maia? Give us respectable cards and more structure in “who’s at the top” instead of “who can draw PPV buys” and this kind of mess wouldn’t happen.

tchalla,you dont know what your talking about,anderson GREASED up before fight#2 and kept grabbing Chaels shorts to keep from being taken down, your stupid,Props to Chael,he is a true Warrior,he will fight anyone anytime!

I do not think the question being whether Chael deserves a title shot or not, obviously he does not.
People are cheering for Chael for the simple reason that he is bashing on Jones.

Jon Jones is now the number 1 public enemy in mma.

I’m sorry but Jon Jones didn’t cancel UFC 151 Dana White did. Right? Why did the card have to be canceled due to one fight? It’s not his fault. Also, Dana lied when he said no fighter has ever declined a fight. Din’t Dana tell anyone who would listen that Shogun declined to fight Glover Texiera?

Dana White putting the UFC slime machine behind Jon Jones. Disgusting!

This is what is called a no win situation. The attendees and pay per view audience doesn’t get what it originally paid for. Henderson loses due to injury and no pay day. Jones loses because the person he trained for is injured. The under card loses because they don’t fight, they don’t get paid. Dana loses because he can’t replace Henderson with anyone other than Sonnen. The only one who stood a chance to win big was Chael and major odds are that with little preparation for this fight, against a very freshly prepared and dangerous striker, he could have gotten hurt pretty bad. I’d bet the farm otherwise that had the fight not been cancelled, Chael stood no chance whatsoever to win.

Only other scenario I could have seen was Dana keeping the card as is minus the main event and giving all ppv and attendees a serious discount with the UFC taking probably its first finial lose. Could have put a positive public relations spin on the whole thing and salvaged some good will with both the fighters and fans.

Putting the blame on Jon Jones is bullshit. Jon Jones lived up to his part of the bargain…he was ready to fight Dan Henderson..its Dan that got injured and could not fight. Dana White mismanaged this UFC because he had no other good fight on the card that could be moved to be the headliner, plus, he should have alternate main fights in the wings specifically for this kind of situation, this is not JJones’ responsibility, it is Dana White and the UFC’s.

@anderson cheats

You are just as delusional as Sonnen. Go back and read my first post and let it sink in. 0-3… the man couldn’t win a title fight if his life depended on it, yet idiots like you keep backing him because “he’s a good trash talker” and that’s why Dana keeps giving him title shots. You need to go watch WWE if you want to hear trash talk, and let the real fighters get the title shots.

Randy Couture = A true American Icon and Champion.

Chael Sonnen = Total F*cking American LOSER.

what an A$$ jones is. so many people bought tickets, hotels and flights besides so many fighters who prepared and worked hard to spend all their money to fight.
can’t stand that fake bitch!

Slimy greedy F*** would not care if 2 fighters died in the cage, as long as it brought in money.

Jones always talkin about his legacy. I hope he gets knocked out already.

Really, Jon the LHW champion vs the loser of the welter weight championship? This was a freebie for JBJ but instead he refused bc Greg Jackson told him to. And you all know how Greg and Dana hate each other. So since Greg pissed off Dana by talking JBJ out of the fight, Dana cancelled the card to sabatoge them. So now the fight fans are getting jacked bc Dana is hating. This really looks bad on both Dana and Greg!!!

thank you

plus why the F*** would you knock vitor? he is alwayz exciting whether he wins or loses

its so funny how dana and ufc threw jon under the bus lol. I think jon should have taking the fight against a less dangerous fight against chael. I Think he just cares to much what greg jackson says. Greg is all about the game plan and what not but whatever. Ufc should have at least 3 big name fights on the card to draw casual fans. They have been putting out ppv cards that literally have one guy or one fight that really draws ppl to buy the ppv. As far as jones wanting a few more weeks to train for a new opponent is perfectly reasonable. Also I cant wait for Dana to act all high and mighty when he announces that the ufc will pay all the fighters their show money if they did not get rescheduled to fight on sept 22. (Its funny bc CSAC requires any combat sport promotion who cancels an event to pay the fighters on that card show money or reschedule them to the next event)

With all that being said some blame still falls on jones he always talked about being a company man and then he has the chance to prove it and he does the oppisite
Also Dan henderson should take some blame. He waited 3 weeks to tell ufc about his injury. After a couple days of not being able to train properly and realize he was not gonna be able to ignore it he should have went to see a doctor and not waited around till a little over a week to tell the ufc.
But in the end the UFC cancelled the fight not jon jones. If the card would have had 2 other note worthy fights that CASUAL fans where interested in the card could have went on. But seems like the UFC has gotten a little to greedy and spreading ppv cards a little to thin. A
Anyway I think vitor vs jon is a much more interesting fight than cheal vs jones. I mean how epic would it be if vitor had one of his blitz moments and KO’s jones. Talk about shaking up the division