Dana White on Nate Diaz after UFC 241: ‘He’s a needle-mover now’

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Five years ago, Dana White wasn’t too impressed with Nate Diaz for “not being a needle-mover”. But after two big fights against Conor McGregor and a win over Anthony Pettis at UFC 241, the UFC president is now saying otherwise.

“Yeah, pretty tough to deny (his superstardom),” White told media members during the UFC 241 post-fight scrum. “He’s a needle-mover now.”

White particularly took note of Diaz’s three-year layoff then winning against a former champion like Pettis.

“You have to talk about the layoff,” he said. “You have to talk about that this kid hasn’t fought in three years. He looked a little rough in the first round, looked like he gassed…


Dana White on Nate Diaz: ‘He’s a needle-mover now’
 

Robbie Hart

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Nate's always been a needle mover
Not quite as he didn’t market himself well until the Johnson fight

He’s a fucking great fighter but he didn’t do anything but bury himself in an argument with the ufc and if you don’t talk the right game and tell the Fuc to fuck off when you don’t have a name, you done fukt

And I’m a huuuuuge Nate Diaz fan
 

Sex Chicken

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Hey Dana you Dumb Fuck, you’re a fucking promoter. Your job isn’t to wait until someone turns themselves into a “needle-mover”, you are supposed to move the needles.






I apologize if I seem overly upset, but this is what drives me crazy about Dana White. I emailed him a couple months ago about potentially fighting for the UFC. Dana said “The fans don’t want to see a 43 year old white belt, with non existent striking, who only wrestled in high school.”
They will if you promote me properly you fucking moron!!!
 
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Robbie Hart

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Feb 13, 2015
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Hey Dana you Dumb Fuck, you’re a fucking promoter. Your job isn’t to wait until someone turns themselves into a “needle-mover”, you are supposed to move the needles.






I apologize if I seem overly upset, but this is what drives me crazy about Dana White. I emailed him a couple months ago about potentially fighting for the UFC. Dana said “The fans don’t want to see a 43 year old white belt, with non existent striking, who only wrestled in high school.”
They will if you promote me properly you fucking moron!!!
Just smh, how he hasn’t driven the sexual chicken train is beyond comprehension
You have so much potential and your kid has a gsp doll ffs, the fuck more do they want to promote a legit badass?
 

lueVelvet

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I think it finally clicked with Dana when he read that headline about Nate being the antihero the UFC needed. Nate’s been true to his mission this whole time but the UFC is too institutionalized to allow someone so different to be so important. But hey without Conor they need another star...and his name is Nate Diaz.
 

ejlarson

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This grade school stuff is absurd. Prove he’s a needle mover. Let him main event a trash ESPN card. Watch that needle move bro!!!!
 

jason73

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all it took for dana to admit that diaz ia a needle mover was for most of his other cash cows to dry up .conor who the fuck knows whats going on with that dude.ronda is gone for good. jon jones is back for now with a get out of jail free card on the PEDs.. who else is selling ppvs right now? cejudo is cringe and not a needle mover .usman and whittacker are champs but not real superstars or needle movers.colby isnt a needle mover no matter how hard they want to push the gimmick.none of the wamens are needle movers. the 2 guys they have right now that can put asses in seat are nate and khabib. part of the problem here is dana is the worlds shittiest promoter. he told us for years that nate didnt sell. he could have hopped on the stockton bandwagon years ago when it was more popular with the fans but he pissed the whole diaz bros era down the drain, dana is only capable of promoting someone who does all the promoting of themselves guys like chael and colby get the company push . guys like nate,masvidal,gaethje, come to bang and put on shows. they have everyone jumping out of their seats .they get no promotion. kinda hard to move the needle when the company doesnt spend a dime on you or give you any promotion
 

RaginCajun

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Hey Dana you Dumb Fuck, you’re a fucking promoter. Your job isn’t to wait until someone turns themselves into a “needle-mover”, you are supposed to move the needles.






I apologize if I seem overly upset, but this is what drives me crazy about Dana White. I emailed him a couple months ago about potentially fighting for the UFC. Dana said “The fans don’t want to see a 43 year old white belt, with non existent striking, who only wrestled in high school.”
They will if you promote me properly you fucking moron!!!
I'll move your needle...
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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This grade school stuff is absurd. Prove he’s a needle mover. Let him main event a trash ESPN card. Watch that needle move bro!!!!
That's how this all started. Nate Diaz was given a title shot on a Fox card. When it was asked to Dana why Nate only seems to fight on Fox cards he said "He's not a needle mover." This was a couple of years before Nate occupied the 2nd and 3rd place spots on the PPV buyrate list. Now 3 years almost to the day after his second fight with Conor we now hear that he's a needle mover.

No shit, Dana.