By Chamatkar Sandhu
Everyone knew it was coming. When former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre conducted an interview with the French-Canadian media on Tuesday in Quebec claiming the UFC did not support his efforts on drug testing in the sport and also claiming that the UFC has a monopoly in the MMA business you just knew UFC president Dana White would fire back and fire back he did in the UFC Fight Night Atlanta post-fight scrum:
“If he wants to talk man to man, he can see us face to face. But everything that he said is ridiculous.”
On drug testing:
“Georges St-Pierre is the one who said he wanted to do the extra drug testing, because wanted to prove he wasn’t on drugs. It wasn’t that he thought Johny Hendricks was on steroids of performance enhancing drugs of any kind, he wanted to do this. And just like you see in boxing, when I said I thought it was ridiculous, you see it in boxing all the time, one guy comes out and says I want to do extra drug testing because I’m worried about this guy, I’m worried about what’s going on. They never come to an agreement.”
“Not only did they test Josh Barnett last time because Josh Barnett was a guy who got tested for performance enhancing drugs before, they also made Travis Browne do it at the same time. And the UFC paid for that. We paid for that drug testing.”
“The fight I was yelling about, screaming about that was the greatest fight I had ever seen, Mark Hunt and Bigfoot Silva, we tested the guys for that fight, we caught Bigfoot Silva, and he got destroyed for testing positive, for going over the limit. He didn’t test positive. What he did was, Vitor Belfort, Bigfoot Silva, any of these other guys who are on TRT, we test them throughout their whole camp. So he did his last test the week of the fight and his numbers were fine. He took a shot after he got tested, and his levels were through the roof and he got destroyed. Lost the win money that we gave him, lost the bonus money we gave him, and obviously he’s not getting an extra bonus. And he’s suspended for a year. So if that’s lenient on drugs, I guess we’re lenient then.”
On the UFC having a Monopoly in the MMA business:
“Viacom is our competitor. They have a $40 billion market cap. I’m never going to see $40 billion as long as I live. So we’re not a monopoly either.”
Dana White then stated he feels GSP is upset for other reasons than what he stated in his interview:
“What I heard is, GSP is upset about some of the things I said at the press conference, and he’s upset that I said he didn’t win the fight, that I said Johny Hendricks won the fight. But if that’s the case, call me, man to man. Let’s talk on the phone. Let’s sit down face to face. I talked to him after the fight face to face. He didn’t say any of that to me.”
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