Dana White has made a counteroffer to Floyd Mayweather’s offer of $15 million to Conor McGregor. On FS1’s “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd, he offered to pay the fighters $25 million each and a split of the PPV revenue. During his ESPN “car wash” earlier this week, Mayweather stated he’s interested in McGregor but as […]
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Mayweather says he wants McGregor, offers fighter $15M
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. indicated that he has indicated that he would fight Conor McGregor if the UFC lightweight champion would take $15 million and a cut of the PPV. Mayweather stated that he was the “A” side and would want $100 million guaranteed plus a bigger share of the PPV. Doing the ESPN “car wash,” […]
Mark Hunt files lawsuit against UFC, White and Lesnar
UFC Heavyweight Mark Hunt has filed a lawsuit against the UFC, Dana White and Brock Lesnar in the District Court of Nevada on Tuesday. The lawsuit stems from Hunt’s fight against Lesnar at UFC 200. Hunt is claiming violations of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, Conspiracy to Commit Racketeering, Fraud, False Pretenses, Breach of […]
White responds to Streep’s remark for TMZ
Dana White has responded to Meryl Streep’s remark about mixed martial arts in her Golden Globe speech. In an interview with TMZ, White called Streep an “uppity 80-year-old lady” in his response. Streep is an accomplished 67-year-old actress that graduated from Yale. Her comments were directed to President-elect Donald Trump and she made an offhand […]
Updated UFC 207 Prelims ratings, peak at 1.8M
The UFC 207 Prelims peaked with more than 1.8 million viewers. The Friday night event on FS1 was up over 45% from last year’s UFC 195 prelims. The event which featured Johny Hendricks and Neil Magny in the feature fight peaked during the last quarter hour 9:45-10pm ET. In comparison’s to last year’s PPV show, […]