UFC: Dana White confirms ‘Neanderthals’ Kamaru Usman vs Jorge Masvidal set for Las Vegas in July

UFC president Dana White vents at welterweights Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal after altercation at Super Bowl event

White says the pair will fight on International Fight Week pay-per-view in Las Vegas in July

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UFC president Dana White during the UFC 205 weigh-ins in 2016. Photo: AFP

Published: 6:07pm, 2 Feb 2020Updated: 6:07pm, 2 Feb 2020

UFC president Dana White confirmed that welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and BMF winner Jorge Masvidal are to fight in July after expressing his frustration at their near-physical altercation at a cross-promotional Super Bowl event last week.

The pair were seen squaring up and exchanging verbal abuse before teammates and officials intervened and diffused the matter. Usman and Masvidal have since accused each other of instigating the altercation.

“I don’t love it. People think that because I’m a promoter I’m like ‘cha-ching’, but it’s not great for us,” White said on The Will Cain Show.

“We’re here at the Super Bowl – the NFL – and these two are acting like Neanderthals in here. The problem is, the people who are working in the media, it scares people like this. That’s a scary thing when that goes down.

“If they touch each other, now the police get involved,” White continued. “We’re regulated by the government, now the athletic commissions are getting involved