http://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/03/dana-white-says-mark-hunt-turned-down-ufc-160-fight-with-junior-dos-santos
Quite disappointed
http://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/03/dana-white-says-mark-hunt-turned-down-ufc-160-fight-with-junior-dos-santosMark Hunt (9-7 MMA, 4-1 UFC) had an opportunity to replace injured Alistair Overeem (36-12 MMA, 1-1 UFC) and fight Junior dos Santos (15-2 MMA, 9-1 UFC) but turned it down, according to UFC President Dana White.
Overeem bowed out of the UFC 160 bout on Wednesday due to a thigh injury, and as MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported earlier today, White later said his fight with former heavyweight champ dos Santos will be rebooked for the summer.
But Hunt? White said he wasn't interested.
"Hey dummy Mark Hunt turned down the fight with JDS as of last night so STFU when u don't know what ur talkin about," White tweeted in response to one of his followers.
He then suggested a big fight could be in order for the New Zealand kickboxer, who recently demolished Stefan Struve in this past week's UFC on FUEL TV 8 co-headliner in Japan. It marked Hunt's fourth straight win and continued a recent career resurgence.
"With his win last week he broke into the top 10," White tweeted. "He will get a top 10 fight but as of last nite he turned down JDS."
On Wednesday Hunt told MMAFighting.com he was open to the May 25 fight with Dos Santos if offered. However, he declined comment today.
With Overeem's injury expected to sideline him weeks instead of months, his fight with Dos Santos likely will be rerouted to one of the UFC's big summer pay-per-view cards.
Totally agree with your point but trustworthy could be replaced by unknown right? Because when the things you listed are involved, who can we really trust? Normally passengers don't get to know in advance how bad are the storms along the route until they hit turbulence. We are the passengers here. Anyway Dana will stay until his image can be tolerated by the system as a whole. When the limit is crossed, he'll be replaced, but with no guarantee his sucessor will be what we expect. I hope I am wrong.In the past I have backed most of Dana's actions but I find myself starting to think he may be the fraud some people say he is more and more. I think all the money, power and attention has given him a sort of GOD complex or something. He has kind of out grown his usefulness as a commissioner, The UFC would be much better served to have Dana as a promoter and put someone a little more trustworthy in as the commissioner of the sport. IMO