Dana White isn’t reading your UFC 332 takes. He told everyone so.
“Literally, all the guys that cover our sport I block them out of my feed. They’re all wrong and everything they say is wrong. It’s a waste of my time to even listen to anything they say,” White said in a clip posted on X by @DovySimuMMA on Monday morning.
The target was the media and analysts who questioned the card before fight night. BVM Sports framed White’s shot as aimed at UFC 332’s “so-called experts” and argued in its headline that those experts weren’t exactly wrong. RingSide24 reported White firing back at critics after the latest round of debate over the event.
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What the critics actually said
A few hours after the clip circulated, Ariel Helwani posted his own summary of the pre-fight complaint, and it was narrower than White’s dismissal suggests. Helwani wrote on X that “No one was saying the card wouldn’t be fun or that it couldn’t deliver entertaining fights.” His point was about standards: he said the card fell below what a typical numbered UFC event offers in drawing power, matchups and stakes, which mattered more because this was the first numbered card airing in its entirety on CBS.
He also gave White the result. “As far as highlight-worthy finishes go, UFC 332 couldn’t have gone much better,” Helwani wrote, before wondering whether finishes are now outranking consistently elite matchmaking in the UFC’s priorities.
That’s a fair distinction, and it’s the one White skipped. A card can be thin on stakes and still produce a pile of highlight finishes. Both things happened.
The officiating side
White didn’t wave off everything. Yahoo Sports reported that he broke his silence on Herb Dean’s stoppage in the King Green fight, with the headline quoting White describing a “Rough year.” He also had pointed words for his own headliner, saying she’ll hate herself when she rewatches the fight, according to an AOL.com headline.
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So the promoter will criticize a referee and a main eventer in the same news cycle where he calls every outside critic wrong about everything. The difference is who’s allowed to say it.
What comes next is the next numbered card on network television. If the UFC keeps building CBS events the way it built this one, Helwani’s question about finishes versus matchups stops being hypothetical, and White will have to answer it with a fight poster rather than a block button.
