In this week’s Trading Shots, MMAjunkie columnist Ben Fowlkes and retired UFC/WEC fighter Danny Downes look at a press conference tiff between the UFC President and a reporter who asked Jose Aldo about the UFC lawsuit. Fowlkes: Danny, the UFC 189 “tour” stopped in Toronto late last week so Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor could trade the same verbal jabs and mean faces that they’ve carried with them to one media event after another, but this time something new happened. Instead of just Aldo and McGregor getting into it, UFC President Dana White called a reporter a “d-ck” for asking Aldo about his pay, and whether it improved after the anti-trust lawsuit was filed against the UFC. When this reporter – Brian D’Souza, who said he was there for BloodyElbow.com, though there’s no story from him on Bloody Elbow about this – tried to take White to task for his response, White told him to “sit down” and “shut up.” I have a lot of different thoughts on this, but first I want to know what you, as a former fighter and eager critic of the MMA media, make of this. Is it newsworthy? Is it just Dana being Dana?
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