UFC: Jorge Masvidal says ‘smart’ Dana White is giving Conor McGregor ‘smaller’ fights to avoid hurting Irishman’s reputation
- BMF winner Jorge Masvidal says UFC President Dana White wants Conor McGregor to keep ‘generating revenue as a winner’
- ‘Gamebred’ clarifies that he is not mad at the situation as everyone has to ‘make their money’
BMF belt winner Jorge Masvidal believes UFC president Dana White is giving Conor McGregor smaller fights so as to avoid damaging his reputation.
“That’s the reason why someone smart like Dana White doesn’t put that fight together,” Masvidal said on ESPN’s Le Batard and Friends STUpodity podcast. “Because they can put one huge fight together and earn all that, but then that kind of hurts Conor’s reputation.
“Instead we have all these smaller fights – not smaller but like the one he just had – and he keeps winning and generating that revenue as a winner.
“If you bring him to this side you’re going to have generate revenue from the losing side … that’s [what] I think Mr Dana White [is doing] because he brings them on to this side. I can’t get mad at that. They have to make their money, too,” Masvidal added.