Dana White instigated the media rankings, as the sport needed a standardization of said ranks, and now he completely disagrees with them before they can even be adjusted after Chael’s impressive win last night. Oh, Dana.
Either way, this is what he said last night at the post-fight scrum.
“Plus the whole ‘He’s all talk‘ thing is just so crazy, I mean people write stories about this stuff and say this stuff, it’s ridiculous. First of all he stepped up to fight Jon Jones on like no notice whatsoever, stepped up to fight Jon Jones and he fought Anderson Silva. He lost to the two pound for pound best fighters in the world, both world champions, one’s the greatest of all time, one’s on his way to be the greatest of all time. At 185lbs where the media ranked him at number 8 or 9 … he beat Michael Bisping, he beat Yushin Okami, he beat Brian Stann, and the list goes on and on of guys who are ranked above him, he’s beat all these guys.
“All that stuff comes from you guys. You guys rank these guys, you guys write all the stories, that’s where all the ‘talk’ stuff comes from. Hes not talk, I say this all the time, this guy steps up and takes big fights. He asked for the Shogun fight.”
