A day after Brendan Schaub ended his petty feud with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White, another one of White’s former fighters decided to drop some controversial nuggets of his own regarding the outspoken promoter.
During a recent edition of his “Sammy and The Punk” podcast, Josh Thomson chimed in on White and Brendan’s beef, saying “Big Brown” isn’t the only fighter to ever bump heads with Dana when it comes to rumored domestic affairs.
To hear “The Punk” tell it, White — who is married — used his power to hurt fighters when he couldn’t get his way with the ladies.
“There are people that I’ve been close with, that have fought for the UFC for a long time, and they have had very similar problems to what Brendan’s having right now. Where he was dating a girl that maybe Dana was trying to date or either dating at the time and that girl kind of liked somebody else,” said Thomson.
“It just became an issue. Like all of a sudden that person wasn’t on pay-per-view anymore. All of a sudden that person was getting cut for no reason. It was little things like that. It just seems really, it’s so funny. For someone who has made $364 million. Really? I just don’t get it.”
Furthermore, Thomson says if White doesn’t tread lightly, all it takes is for one woman to speak up for his career to possibly come crashing down.
“I’m talking about people that have, I don’t want to put anybody else’s name out there on blast, but there are people that were so ingrained, world champions, so ingrained in the company that are now are no longer even heard of, that Dana has either tried to hang out with that person’s wife,” revealed Thomson.
“Or he tried to basically like, there is just so many different...I can’t even get into this man. I don’t want to get in on all that. For this to happen, it’s true. This is exactly what you would expect from Dana,” he added. “It’s unfortunate because he is such a high-profile person. Honestly, in this situation you got to be careful Dana because in this whole movement of Me Too, just wait for one girl to speak up and be like, ‘You know what? I’m on Brendan’s side.’ Think about it it, I can see it, he is a guy with high powers worth hundreds of millions.”
With Thomson’s refusal to single out anyone, everything he says is pure speculation. Nevertheless, “The Punk” has levied some very serious accusations against UFC’s president, which likely won’t sit too well with one of the most powerful men in sports.
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