Despite Uriah Hall’s recent run in with a seizure thanks to the UFC’s strict weigh ins policy, Dana White is speaking out and blasting Hall for missing the mark and causing Sunday’s co-main event cancellation.
Uriah Hall was scheduled to fight Vitor Belfort on Sunday night, but would never make it to the scales, after fainting, going into seizure and being hospitalized.
And while the health scare seems legit, and a cause for concern, the UFC president opens up on some details, and he blames Hall for the mess up.
Taking to his post fight media scrum on Sunday night, Dana White let Hall have it.
Check it out:
“The guys at the UFC (Performance Institute) said he’s the, what’s the word – he doesn’t take it serious. He doesn’t take his training serious, he doesn’t do what anybody tells him. He does his own thing. A week before the fight, he went to L.A. and was hanging out in L.A. in clubs and stuff. So, not good.”
“He texted me [Sunday night]. He’s back in his room. Obviously he’s not good. And if you don’t cut weight the right way and you don’t do what you’re supposed to do, this is what happens.”
“What I think he needs to think about is fight at 205. Fight at 205 or show up and do what you’re supposed to do. There’s ways to cut weight properly and safely. You need to start doing that. That’s why we are encouraging everybody to come to the UFC Performance Institute. That’s why all the guys down there do what they’re supposed to do and do it the right way, cut weight safely. The guys who don’t listen, this is what happens. And much like Kelvin Gastelum and the Johny Hendricks and the other people out there – if you can’t make that weight, then fight at the higher weight division.”
Uriah Hall was at one time considered to be the next Anderson Silva. The middleweight rocked the TUF house during his season of The Ultimate Fighter, ultimately losing to Kelvin Gastelum in the show’s final round.
Do you think Dana’s assessment of Hall is fair?
