Faber Accuses Dana White of Lying to Him

"I had first assumed it was going to be Barao, or McDonald or Menjivar and Barao was my first prediction. I started getting tape on him as soon as I found out about Dominick. This was a couple of weeks ago. Then, when Dana came in to do the announcement, I asked him if there were any hints or insights on who it would be and he was saying 'Oh, you wouldn't believe what all had gone down, how McDonald broke his hand and Barao didn't want to leave Brazil, to leave Aldo's side, because Aldo was training' and all this crazy stuff, so I didn't know for awhile.

Then like two days before the thing, I had text Dana and he was basically lying to me, saying it was gonna be Menjivar. For like two days I thought I might be fighting Menjivar. Then the day of the announcement, I was like 'Are you sure it's not Barao?' And he was like, 'Yeah.' But I had a feeling that it was. Then Dana apologized right before he announced it, for basically lying, which is kinda weird, I thought, because Barao was there. I don't care who I fight, I told Dana I wouldn't say anything anyway, if he was thinking I might spoil the surprise, or what the deal was."

Just trying not to leak it out.

Dana should have said no comment until the announcement.

Dana lying? noooo

Dana just didnt want it to leak but it was pretty obvious who it was going to be. Faber shouldnt take it so bad but i guess it does kind of fuck with Urijah's training.

ya its kind of funny to see Faber call Dana a liar multiple times , this wasn't just the slip of a tongue or said the wrong words, its clear he felt Dana was lying to him.

Even if its 100%, it probably isn't the best to post that shit online about your boss.

lol agree Farmer

Yeah they might not just hand him another title shot following one win after he loses to Barao this time

bobbitt15 wrote:

Yeah they might not just hand him another title shot following one win after he loses to Barao this time

It is as bad as Couture who go a title shot every few fights no matter what.

bobbitt15 wrote:

Yeah they might not just hand him another title shot following one win after he loses to Barao this time

Hatin

is faber one of these benders who goes on twitter to tell everybody whenever he has a shit or a piss?

if so, whit was probably trying to avoid a badly articulated twitter leak.

cheekynffc wrote:

is faber one of these benders who goes on twitter to tell everybody whenever he has a shit or a piss?

if so, whit was probably trying to avoid a badly articulated twitter leak.

but thats not what happened, Faber is saying White made him believe he would be facing Menjivar for several weeks and then eventually told him, hey sorry for bullshoitting you,

If Faber was a blabber mouth than he would have been tweeting he was fighting Menjivar.

and I am by no means a Faber fan, just saying

Eh just seemed like Dana was waiting for everything to get settled before announcing.

then whuy tell him menjivar?

Birdofthad wrote:

cheekynffc wrote:

is faber one of these benders who goes on twitter to tell everybody whenever he has a shit or a piss?

if so, whit was probably trying to avoid a badly articulated twitter leak.

but thats not what happened, Faber is saying White made him believe he would be facing Menjivar for several weeks and then eventually told him, hey sorry for bullshoitting you,

If Faber was a blabber mouth than he would have been tweeting he was fighting Menjivar.

this is assuming both that fabers word is 100% accurate and that his interpretation of what was said to him was sound. i doubt white told him he was 'sorry for lying about your opponent'.

"So I lied to him," White admitted. "This show, even though it's not live, we want to break some s--- on the show. With you f---ers, it's tough to do. You're out looking for the next big (scoop).

"I knew if I told him, he's going to tell his camp. His camp is going to go tell this guy and that guy, and that's how this thing going to get out. So I said, 'You're fighting Ivan Menjivar.'"

"When Barao was announced, [Urijah] had no idea. That's why I said, 'Sorry bro'."

Why didn't he just say he didn't know who he's fighting?

i really don't think of this as a big deal