Former UFC commentator Dan Hardy has one again taken aim at his old boss, UFC president Dana White. When Dana White claimed that Hardy mistreated a female UFC employee, Hardy snapped back with some choice words of his own.
“I don’t give a f***. I owe nobody anything. I’m beholden to nobody. This is my microphone, this is my channel. I can say what I like.”
Dan Hardy Blasts Dana White, Slap Fighting
I might be mouthy, but I’m never going to be mistreating a woman, a female employee — I would never. Anyone that’s worked with me would know that. Anybody that knows me would know that.
So you ask me if I’m bitter, yeah, I’m probably a little bit bitter, but ultimately what I wanted to do is let you guys know that I see the game that’s been played. Mistreating a woman? Unbelievable. It was a colleague of mine that I had known and had been working with as a fighter and as an ambassador for the UFC for probably 12, 15 years.
To this day, I’m constantly hearing about it how obstructive and difficult she is to work with. I’m not making this up. People know this. There’s a lot of people listening right now who know exactly who this person is, and they could vouch for me, but they can’t vouch for me, because if you speak out, your media credentials are gone. You don’t get access. They’ll attack your sponsors. They’ll do whatever they can do maintain control.”
Hardy continued, slamming the UFC’s announcement of a slap fighting league. “I know what we’ll do. We love our athletes, we care about them so much, let’s start a f****** slap fight league. Let’s trade concussions for cash. I mean, c’mon. And you’re going to advertise that to me while I’m trying to watch MMA, while I’m trying to watch my sport? C’mon. Say one thing, do another. Say one thing, talk some s***, do another. It’s the same pattern, over and over again.
How did that become a thing? I wonder, back in the old MMA days, if anybody was watching MMA and feeling like I do about slap fighting now, because I’m sure they did. I had a long conversation with somebody about, ‘Oh it’s this and that, it’s human cockfighting.’ But I can’t, for the life of me, understand the endeavor of slap fighting, aside from to make a bit of cash and get some [followers] for your Instagram. It’s cashing in on f****** brain trauma.”
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