{"id":16263,"date":"2011-09-27T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16263"},"modified":"2011-09-27T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T18:12:25","slug":"dana-white-fire-larry-merchant-ufc-owners-shocking-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16263","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: \u201cFIRE LARRY MERCHANT\u201d \u2013 UFC Owner\u2019s SHOCKING Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7243\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"danawhiteheader2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/danawhiteheader2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dana White got caught up in the Floyd Mayweather, JR. \u2013 Larry Merchant altercation like many did and he came out with a comment that has shocked a lot of people. He has called Merchant \u201csenile\u201d and noted that \u201che should be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feisty Merchant was verbally attacked by Mayweather, JR., after his cheap shot win over Victor Ortiz and he responded by saying that if he was \u201c50 years younger,\u201d he\u2019d kick his ass. Later, he joked and said that he didn\u2019t think he could beat Floyd even if he was 50 years younger, but he\u2019d try. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most supported Merchant, especially under the circumstances. He asked the tough questions and it was met with anger and threats by Floyd. Now Dana White has said his piece and he\u2019s not alone, believing that the journalists need to maintain a level of professionalism, but they should not be punching bags either.<\/p>\n<p>To the credit of White, his string of Pay Per Views have, on average, been a lot more satisfying then what boxing had produced, but he is still in the wrong for his comments regarding Merchant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee Dana White got caught up in the Floyd Mayweather, JR. \u2013 Larry Merchant altercation like many did and he came out with a comment that has shocked a lot of people. He has called Merchant \u201csenile\u201d and noted that \u201che should be fired.\u201d The feisty Merchant was verbally attacked by Mayweather, JR., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,268,314,5491,510,736],"class_list":["post-16263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-dana-white","tag-floyd-mayweather-jr","tag-hbo","tag-larry-merchant","tag-mma","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}