Dana White Fired Back at UFC 312 Critics For Having Only 4 Ranked Fighters on Entire Card

After UFC Saudi Arabia displayed an action-packed, completely unpredictable card, Dana White and Co. were back with UFC 312.

Fill the fighting community was excited to watch Dricus Du Plessis defend his middleweight belt against Sean Strickland, and Zhang Weili defend her strawweight belt against Tatiana Suarez, the rest of the card was deemed boring by the fans.

The UFC head honcho promoted UFC 312 but named 4 more fighters who, according to him, had the potential to entertain the fighting world.

‘Big Train’s 4th fight in the UFC. On the other hand, ‘Slava Claus’ didn’t really have an impressive career in the UFC, with 3 wins, 3 losses, and 1 draw. Yet, White believed, “Both of these guys are nasty, technical, aggressive strikers.

Another lesser-known fight was the main card bout between Justin Tafa and Tallison Teixeira. And Teixeira is one of the debutants at UFC 312.

One fan commented, “the Saudi fight nights get way better cards than this.” But he was met with a cold and stern response from White. He replied, “don’t watch it.”

With only 4 ranked fighters on the card and 7 debutants, there’s not much that the fighting world could get hyped for.

During a recent episode of The Ariel Helwani Show, the reporter said, “Dana White used to say all the time, ‘We’re not boxing. We don’t make top-heavy cards.’ Are they making top-heavy cards now? I would say so… But week in and week out, it’s very top-heavy.”

There were definitely exceptions like the International Fight Week cards, or UFC 300, which Helwani branded as anomalies.