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Luke Rockhold hits back at Dana White, calls UFC’s negotiation tactics ‘Mafioso-type’

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Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has put the UFC and Dana White on blast in an appearance on a podcast.

Luke Rockhold appeared on BroBible’s “Rippin’ It” podcast where he was asked about his modelling career and he revealed that he took on his job as a model as a way to leverage his position with the UFC.

Luke Rockhold, UFC, Dana White Mafia

Modeling’s modeling. The only reason I modeled in the first place is because fighting is like a mafia. They have these very mafioso-type tactics in negotiations. They try to f*ck with you. I’m not having any of it,” Luke Rockhold said. “If you don’t know your worth, someone will tell you your worth and it’ll be less than your worth. So know your worth, and leverage yourself, too.”

Once I lost the world title, Dana White came up to me and tried to beat me down mentally, and I was like, ‘F*ck you’ – straight up,” Luke Rockhold said. “I was like, ‘I’m going to go do my own thing. If you’re going to try and offer me this and that bullsh*t, you know who I am and you know what I did.’ That’s the only reason I went out and got a modeling contract – so I could leverage myself. So I went back and within a year I got the fragrance (deal) with Ralph Lauren. Then you’ve got Dana and them calling back to me like, ‘Hey Luke. What do you want to do? Can you fight here? Do you want this amount of money? Do you want that?’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s right, motherf*cker!‘”

Luke Rockhold says MMA needs a governing body

Luke Rockhold also said that such negotiation tactics are ordered by the UFC because there’s no governing body in place to establish best practices and give fighters a fair deal.

We don’t have the governing body. That’s another problem, too. We’ve got an egotistical guy that’s a bit of a tyrant,” Luke Rockhold said. “No one is going to try and fight you. You’ve got to put your f*cking ass on the line, stand your ground (and) take risks. Otherwise, you get treated like a b*tch. It’s unfortunate, a guy like (White). He thinks he can fight. He thinks he’s a fighter. I don’t know why he’s trying to belittle all the fighters when you’ve never fought a day in your life. You’re a promoter. We need a governing body to really give people what they deserve, because he doesn’t play the game right.” (H/T – MMAJunkie.com)

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