Dana White was a boxer so he did fight before. Maybe not MMA but I’d put my money on Dana in that scrap. Hell, I’d take Lorenzo Fertitta over Atencio. And remember Tom, Tito did everything he could to not go through with his fight with Dana. Obviously he knew something you don’t.

I bet everytime Atencio sees that pic he thinks “Why did’nt I just choke that fucker out and finish it?” LOL

I don’t think it’s appropriate for a president of an MMA promotion to fight themselves, not only does it send out a message that anybody can do this sport, but it is also a conflict of interest. I don’t see how you can compete and run a business at the same time, you can’t be an employer and an employee. It would be even worse if he fought on an Affliction show because he’d be paying himself to fight. To me this just seems to be a publicity stunt in order for Attencio to get his name out there, but it could backfire if he gets destroyed as it won’t do any good for the credibility of the Affliction brand. Likewise its not a smart fight for people to take as win/lose they are facing a 42 year old businessman, it’s almost as bad for their reputations as fighting Kyle Maynard.

atencio is a tool.

Ask Tom who’s the only one to turn a profit with their MMA promotion.

Dana White woke up on 3rd base and thought he had hit a triple.

Not content with turning the UFC into the WWE, White’s Latest idiotic and low life move, deliberately recruiting sub par American fighters (like refusing anybody who had fought in Strikeforce) to compete against the UK fighters in TUF 9 so he could boost ratings in the Uk shows just how much of a lowlife he is.

Bad enough that he turned TUF into a piss parade suitable only for water sports fetishists and idiotic, mouth breathing mall rats without a clue, now he wants to make American fighters look bad. Deliberately!

After stiffing the American public with tons of bad fight cards White’s bacon will be saved by some decent cards this summer. But make no mistake, White is a low life who doesn’t care a whit about the fighters or the fans who pay the outrageously inflated ticket prices to see them.

The caliber of his fans is typified by the truly brain dead comment above by some genius who truly believes that Tito ducked a fight with White. Unreal :)

He was about to box Tito. How about Atencio steps up and fights one of his champs instead of a guy making his debut

Yeah I dont Dana would fight in events but he used to be a Ameature Boxer….so maybe he could throw a few.

Affliction is bleeding money, this is just a stunt to keep his name on people lip – and its obviously working haha.

Does anyone know if Dana has any jitz experience? I know he’s got the boxing background but I was wondering if he has anything else.

Don King talks like a fighter!!

Actually for those who say he is trying to promote…. tell me exactly how he is doing that…. As a fighter he is a nobody and the guy he is fighting is a nobody. Is it interesting … sort of but i think its just Tom trying to do something for himself rather than promote his company. It just makes no sense for him to go in there and do it for his brand. Yall make it sound like he is Jackie Moon from that basketball movie

I think you guys need to lay off Tom Atencio. He is perhaps the only promoter in MMA who is willing to put the gloves on and step inside the cage. Can’t say that for anybody else. Also, Tom knows Dana better than anyone of us fans and Dana talks a lot of shit and has about Tom and his operation for a long time.

To me, it’s about time that Tom Atencio said something back about Dana and his big mouth. Some of you want to talk about dana or lorenzo would beat atencio but 1. you don’t know that 2. dana and lorenzo are way bigger than tom

Dana is to smart to fight thats why!!!!! He was going to box Tito but Tito did not show up!!!!!!!! Anticio is a fool!!!!

Like Tom or not, you gotta agree with his statement….it’s 100% true.

About that Ortiz vs Dana thing…why does everyone ignore the fact that the boxing match was called off before the taping of that stupid Spike show even began? Hell, it was already known to MMA fans about a month before the taping of the show that Dana and Tito couldn’t come to terms on where the money would go, but they still taped the show then made Dana out to be the hero and Tito the goat….didn’t stop all you Dana worshippers from getting on all fours and towing the Dana train though. Tito wanted to do a $10 PPV and donate the money to charity, Dana wanted no part of it, Tito balked at doing the match, Dana still taped the show….it was all over the MMA news websites and shit….wake up Dana lovers, he duped you again. That Spike show was one of the biggest farces I’ve ever seen…I especially liked the part when Dana was sitting all by himself in the boxing ring acting like he was upset that Tito was a no show….A MONTH AFTER TITO TOLD HIM TO FUCK OFF…..LMAO…Dana could offer you ’huggers ocean front property in Arizona and you would be all over it.

If you ask me, that dude needs to start planning an event instead of training and messing around with his mid life crisis fighting dreams. He has some of the worlds best fighters under contract standing around holding their dicks waiting for a fight.

Affliction is supposed to put on a summer event. It’s may and they don’t have a date, any fights announced, nothing!! As far as I am concerned Affliction is DEAD!! Release the fighters and start designing some new shirts b/c these old ones are just tacky and played out now.

Atencio is starting to come across like a loser these days. No one cares about his half-hearted, attention-getting attempts at fighting. He shifts between saying he has no beef with Dana to insinuating that he’s more man than Dana because he’s stepping up to fight. LOL.

Atencio put on some great fights through the Affliction brand; but he had a failed business model from the beginning and he’s going to go under soon. Everyone knows that. He ought to hold his head up and be content with the two good shows he put on. There’s no need to pull ridiculous stunts to keep his name out there. When Affliction folds, his name will be meaningless to the average fan. Fighting some C-level fighter in a C-level show won’t change that.

LOL he’s probably right.

Everyone bad mouths Dana for saying stupid things. I think this is just as stupid as anything Dana has said.

So just cus Dana runs a MMA company, tells it like it is, and has to kick a little ass from time to time in an industry full of egos, all of a sudden hes supposed to be an actual fighter. Tom, stop being a tw@t and grow up. Thats EXACTLY the type of person I this industry needs to ge rid of.

I find it hard to believe that Tom would just come out and say this anyway. I’d like to see footage of the press conference, because dollars to donuts some reporter started the Dana White talk and Tom responded to the question.