White hits out at Strikeforce for signing Walker

UFC President Dana White has blasted Strikeforce’s decision to sign former football star Herschel Walker.

Walker is set to make his MMA debut at age 47. White has also hit out at Showtime for engaging in something that makes MMA look bad.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” White told Mike Chiappetta on the Inside The Ultimate Fighter podcast.

“People think we’re anti-competition? We’re anti-dumb competition. Doing stupid things like this, putting a 50-year-old guy in the Octagon for the first time, and then going out there putting out press releases like it’s a big deal because you signed a 50-year-old Herschel Walker? Are you serious?”

“Strikeforce is a small, little, regional show,” White continued. “The geniuses over at Showtime, these guys are the most arrogant, cocky, pompous jackasses I’ve ever met in my whole life.”

“Which athletic commission is going to let this guy fight?” White added. “Who the f**k are they going to find to fight Herschel Walker? A guy in a wheelchair?”

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