Dana White On Fedor Fighting Hendo.

http://www.mmamania.com/2011/7/28/2300358/dana-whites-message-to-fedor-emelianenko-dude-youre-fighting-a-185

i saw henderson in a interview say he will be at 206 pounds exactly for the fight with fedor.

Yeh he said that alright hes going to be outsized but Fedor will be outskilled leading to his inevitable death :) 

i saw a picture of henderson right next to fedor and he looks small to me.  i just hope henderson has those fists working big time in the fight this saturday.

I dont see this being a very entertaining fight at all . Just my opinion , I like both Henderson and Fedor

You see Dana already trying to make excuses when Fedor wins? He will do whatever he can to downplay Fedor's accomplishments. Hendo hasn't weighed 185 in a long, long time. Sure he cut to it for the Shields fight and it killed him. Come fight night the difference will be no more then 15 pounds. Not to mention he is the 205 lb champ...

hes just mad Fedor wont fight in the ufc.

@Danno and Mike

Dosen't really seem to be the case

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/tim_marchman/07/27/dana-white/index.html

SI.com: Fedor Emelianenko has a big fight coming up. Do you feel a bit vindicated? Because for years you were saying, "This guy's been fighting some dodgy opposition on short notice, and let's see what happens when he fights in a cage under unified rules." And we've seen what's happened.

White: No, I don't feel vindicated. Listen, I'm not out to hurt Fedor, or hurt any fighter. People ask me my opinions, I give you my opinion on what I think about a fighter. It's like the Kimbo Slice thing. You know, I said, "Kimbo Slice, this guy is always going to be the toughest guy at the barbecue, but he's never going to da-da-da-da-da." And then, Kimbo Slice, I give him the offer. "You want to come over? I don't think you can win The Ultimate Fighter, but I'll give you the opportunity if you want to try it." Bring him in, and he doesn't.

Well, I like Kimbo Slice, ends up the guy is the nicest guy in the world when I meet him, and so is his management. The guys who handled him were great people to work with and everything else. It doesn't mean that I feel vindicated and I say, "See, I told you, I told you that Kimbo Slice couldn't do this."

Listen, I'm in the fight business, and I think that I know a little bit about the fight business. I've been in it since I was 19. And I'm going to have my opinions on fighters, just like you sports reporters or the fans, you know? Sometimes I'm right, and sometimes I'm wrong. I didn't think that Kimbo Slice could win The Ultimate Fighter. I thought the Fedor hype was ridiculous. And the people who were really as great people as he thought he was weren't getting their dues, you know?

A guy like Anderson Silva, who's really fought the best competition in the world since 2006, and beat them all. Even in a fight where he was injured and was getting the s--- kicked out him, he pulls off the submission with a minute twenty left in the fight. Those are the guys that deserve to be talked about and deserve to be called the greatest, and you had these reporters who were calling Fedor the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Are you s------- me? You know, it's stuff like that. But I don't feel vindicated, I don't have any dislike toward Fedor. I was just trying to set the record straight and tell these people that they're out of their minds.

You don't say, "Dude your fighting a 185lber" unless you are trying to smear someone's accomplishments, especially when it's a load of crap. Hendo doesn't weigh 185...Of course he isn't going to admit it, but it's clear that's what he's doing.

I saw a pic that I guess Hendo tweeted recently and he was on a scale weighing 203!!

* Edited at 07.29.2011, 12:25 PM ET *

This one?




Looks like 185 eh Dana? Not to mention the difference only comes from Fedor having some extra bodyfat, not muscle...

Nah I don't think Dana hates Fedor or wants to belittle him. He's just speaking what the fight fan in him is saying.

If Fedor wins in impressive fashion I'm sure Dana will give him props. If not, he'll just shrugs and say "well there you have it".

@Dan - The cut killed him in the Shields fight because he didn't cut correctly, he's cut to 185 easily, plenty of times. Fedor is a HW, Hendo is a MW, you're the one making excuses.

Regardless of what happens in this fight, these are both legends and the last of the iron chins!

Dana need not worry, Hendo has this in the bag.