Dana White declares: “I don’t hate Lyoto Machida”

UFC President, Dana White has attempted to put to bed rumours that there’s some sort of rift between him and former light heavyweight champion, Lyoto Machida, explaining he not only doesn’t hate him but he actually thinks he’s a nice guy.

Speaking at the UFC on Versus 6 post-fight press conference, Dana said:

“There is just nobody for Machida to fight right now. Everybody thinks I hate Machida now because of that whole Anderson Silva money thing, but with the position Machida is in right now, is like what happened with Rashad [Evans].”

“Rashad turned down a fight and said ‘I’m going to wait for Shogun,’ right? Wait for this guy who blew his knee out to get better, and then people start getting hurt left and right and now he’s out almost a year and a half.

“I don’t hate Machida. Things happen, we butt heads all the time with different guys and stupid stuff is said by them or me and everything else, but I don’t hate anybody. I definitely don’t hate Machida. He’s a nice guy.”

Machida was rumoured to be taking on top rated prospect, Phil Davis before the year was out, with Dana even announcing the fight at a press conference in the past couple of weeks, but it appears that one might have to wait until early 2012.

source:mmabay