ironworks
03-17-2013, 12:28 AM
UFC President Dana White, who has drawn many comparisons to Vince
McMahon, revealed in an interview Friday night on Canadian French sports
network RDS that the WWE promoter had once proposed that they fight.
While
being interviewed by former NHL player Denis Gauthier, Jr., whose wife
is the sister of former WWE wrestlers Jacques and Raymond Rougeau,
Gauthier jokingly asked White who would reign supreme if he were to be
locked up inside a steel cage with McMahon. The UFC figurehead revealed
that the fantasy duel could have become a reality.
"Let me tell
you something, and I've never said this before ever in any interview
anywhere. If Vince hear's this, he's going to go nuts. Vince is too old,
which he won't think he is, and he'll go crazy. And he wanted to
[fight] one time," remarked White.
"Vince wanted to fight me.
Swear to God. Called me up and said, "Let's do it." We can either do it
in the UFC, or let's do it at WrestleMania. And I said, "You are crazy."
White
noted of the 67-year-old: "I always have said it, and I'll say it
again; I respect Vince very much. But Vince is too old to be fighting
anybody."
According to Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer,
McMahon had proposed that White fight him at the 2011 pay-per-view event
WrestleMania XXVII. It was the WWE chief's idea of a double main-event
match—the other being John Cena vs. The Miz for the WWE Championship.
McMahon, revealed in an interview Friday night on Canadian French sports
network RDS that the WWE promoter had once proposed that they fight.
While
being interviewed by former NHL player Denis Gauthier, Jr., whose wife
is the sister of former WWE wrestlers Jacques and Raymond Rougeau,
Gauthier jokingly asked White who would reign supreme if he were to be
locked up inside a steel cage with McMahon. The UFC figurehead revealed
that the fantasy duel could have become a reality.
"Let me tell
you something, and I've never said this before ever in any interview
anywhere. If Vince hear's this, he's going to go nuts. Vince is too old,
which he won't think he is, and he'll go crazy. And he wanted to
[fight] one time," remarked White.
"Vince wanted to fight me.
Swear to God. Called me up and said, "Let's do it." We can either do it
in the UFC, or let's do it at WrestleMania. And I said, "You are crazy."
White
noted of the 67-year-old: "I always have said it, and I'll say it
again; I respect Vince very much. But Vince is too old to be fighting
anybody."
According to Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer,
McMahon had proposed that White fight him at the 2011 pay-per-view event
WrestleMania XXVII. It was the WWE chief's idea of a double main-event
match—the other being John Cena vs. The Miz for the WWE Championship.