The promotion's pitchman denied reports that Rashad Evans would be fined or suspended for making pre-fight remarks that compared "putting hands" on his opponent Phil Davis' worse than that of alleged child abuser and former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. For now Evans' comments have been relegated to the ambiguous weigh station of wait-and-see
"What do you want me to do? You want me to have our lawyers draw something up, and I'll come out and read it to you guys?" he said. "[Evans] said something stupid. It's probably one of the dumbest things you can say.
"He gets it, and he knows it was a stupid thing to say. We'll see what happens."
White's beliefs were more clear when it came to the health of UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and the future of Strikeforce on Showtime.
Silva, who Chael Sonnen and Dan Henderson both accuse of having ducked competition due to phantom injuries, was defended by a sharp-tongued White in an interview with MMAJunkie.com.
"First of all, just to clear this up, and these guys – Dan Henderson knows it, Chael knows it, and every other fighter that fights in the UFC knows it – you can't fake an injury,"
"He is injured," White said. "He's out until the summer. That's just those guys yapping."
The Showtime deal with Zuffa-owned Strikedforce was expected to expire in February, but the premium cable channel and the parent company of the UFC have appear to have a new deal in place with White saying that details should be made available sometime next week.
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