Dana White’s arbitrary (and continued) punishment of UFC’s No. 1 contender contradicts Nick Khan, undermines TKO’s efforts to update Ali Act

“He had an opportunity, and you guys know how that played out,” White told reporters at the UFC 323 press conference. “He’s gonna have to work his way back. I don’t give a sh*t what the number says. He’s gonna have to work his way back. It’s just too much goes into this for those type of things to happen. You can’t get the opportunity and then … it can’t end that way. He’s got to work his way back. He knows what’s going on. I don’t give a sh*t what everybody else says. He knows what’s going on, and he’s got to work his way back to that title shot.”

Just ask TKO director Nick Khan.

“Everything the Ali Act already has, will stay the same,” Khan told Pat McAfee. “If you’re a fighter and you want to continue with it, nothing changes. This is presenting an ‘or’ — a different option where if you want to come into a unified boxing organization like Zuffa, or anyone else who wants to create a unified boxing organization. Come here, fight with us, we’ll have our own rankings system. The champion will fight the number one contender, just like in the UFC.”

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