Bob Arum: Dana White Supports Trump – That Says It All!

Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum has continued to take shots at UFC President Dana White – over the executive’s insistence to stage events during the coronavirus.

Arum’s company has either postponed or canceled all of their events through the month of June.

White was going to stage UFC 249 on April 18. It was moved from Brooklyn and was heading to an Indian casino in California.

The closed doors event was close to take place – until executives from ESPN and Disney were forced to get involved to make White stand down, which at that point postponed the card.

White is now discussing the idea of securing a private island – which he claims is already in his hands – for the purposes of staging weekly UFC events.

“Dana White supports Trump for President, and that says it all,” White told the Pug and Copp Boxing Show.

“There’s really a divide here, there’s the Governor Cuomo and Governor Newsom element sense of governing. That’s where we do things in a sensible, stable way.

“And then there’s the Donald Trump way of governing, where you say anything that comes to you mind that might benefit you. And that’s whether that’s true or not. Dana White is a cowboy, he isn’t thinking out the situation, all he wants to do is put an event on.

“And now we learn that one of the events he was going to put on at the Tachi Palace, before it got pulled, would’ve involved a fighter who has tested positive for coronavirus. That is irresponsible, we cannot act irresponsibly at the moment.”

White is not ready to stop now. He intends to move forward with his UFC 249 event, on May 9, in Florida.

The state of Florida had ruled last week, that closed doors events like boxing, mixed martial arts and pro wrestling were “essential.”

Arum’s company is also considering the idea of staging events in Florida in the next few months.

 “I would prefer doing it in Nevada or California so I don’t have to travel,” Arum said.