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For the sake of argument, let’s take UFC president Dana White’s words at face value.
Let’s assume that White is absolutely correct in his belief Amanda Nunes could have fought Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 213 if she really wanted.
Let’s assume White was correct in focusing on the fact Nunes was cleared by a doctor on Friday (and ignore that Nunes said that in her first doctor visit, she was only checked for weight-cut issues and not sinusitis, her actual condition).
Let’s also assume White means what he said when he said Nunes is never going to headline again (we’ll shut off the part of our brain that instantly notes that Jon Jones is headlining UFC 214 in three weeks, just months after White said he’d never headline again).
Yes, let’s assume, just for now, that all of this is true. Even if everything White says is 100 percent accurate, how does this in any way help the UFC going forward?
We’re going through a stretch in which one of the stars who fueled the company’s biggest run, Ronda Rousey, is likely done, and the other, Conor McGregor, is getting ready to box Floyd Mayweather with minimal UFC input. With business in 2017 thus far way down from the past few years, UFC needs to build drawing cards more than ever.
Instead, White ran down Nunes. While he was at it, he may as well have taken the UFC women’s bantamweight belt, the one which was a part of some of the biggest-money events of the past three years, and thrown it in a trash can.
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