UFC President Dana White Not Optimistic About UFC's 20th Anniversary Event Being Held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City

UFC President Dana White Not Optimistic About UFC's 20th Anniversary Event Being Held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City
Posted by Jeffrey Harris?on 04.18.2013

Not looking good...

UFC President Dana White spoke today in a media scrum about a lack of progress in MMA getting regulated in New York to allow for the promotion to hold a 20th anniversary event in Madison Square Garden. Below are some highlights:

White on lack of progress with NY: "Anything can happen. But I'm not as optimistic as I was a few weeks ago."

White on the roadblocks with the state: "Everybody wants [MMA in New York] except the culinary union. Let me tell you this: Every time we try to move forward and progress in New York, the Las Vegas Culinary Union starts hammering everybody with letters, and they're working the politicians and everything else. I have a question for you: In Las Vegas, we put on however many fights a year. How come they're not writing any letters in Las Vegas? They're from Las Vegas. And if the UFC is this horrible thing that they write about, why aren't they sending letters to the MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, the Nevada State Athletic Commission ? and the list goes on an on? Why are they only writing letters to New York? Does that make any sense to anybody? So what's good for Vegas, Vegas can reap the benefits of all the economic impact we have, all the good things that happen when a UFC event comes in to Vegas, but New York can't? Why is that? Dirty, rotten scumbags."

White on their 20th anniversary event: "There's going to be a 20-year anniversary. It's just not going to be at MSG. ... But wherever we go for the 20-year, it's going to be big."

Credit: MMAjunkie

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