UFC’s Dana White responds to L.A. Times story

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Ultimate Fighting Championships President Dana White has responded strongly to a comment that Top Rank President Todd duBoef made to me while discussing the ending of Saturday’s Brock Lesnar-Randy Couture heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas.

Lesnar, after knocking down Couture, unleashed a flurry of punches on Couture’s head, prompting a German official who attended the fight to ask the participants how that scene qualified as sport. In a Tuesday article, we wrote about the ending of a fight that was expected to draw several casual or new MMA fans to the sport.

In an interview with Yahoo! Sports’ Kevin Iole, White says among other things, ‘What Todd duBoef said the other day in the L.A. Times, this is the same Todd duBoef who got the free tickets from me to be at that event that night. He said that the Randy Couture stoppage proves that boxing is much safer than MMA. [Top Rank chairman] Bob Arum is 95 years old and senile, when he says crazy [expletive] you know, it goes over your head because you expect it from him. Bob has been saying crazy [expletive] since Day 1. But Todd duBoef? What does Todd duBoef know about MMA?’

Here’s the Yahoo! Sports article.

-- Lance Pugmire