Dana White is never one to hold back when criticizing the media – but recent headlines from Australia, ahead of UFC 312, seemed to strike a nerve more than usual.

While White had spent much of the lead-up to the event praising Australia for its warm welcome to the UFC’s return to Sydney, he couldn’t ignore two stories that caught his attention.
One was a cover from the Daily Telegraph Sport featuring Sean Strickland alongside some of his most controversial statements, accompanied by a bold caption:

 

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The second was an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald reacting to White’s podcast appearance with New South Wales Premier Chris Minns.
The writer claimed that watching the two together “actually made me feel sick.”

White didn’t hold back when addressing the Australian media during the UFC 312 post-fight press conference:

Listen, for a place that is so tough – everything on land and in the water can kill you – you have the biggest pus*ies I’ve ever seen in the media in my life.

I saw a story where a guy was like: “I saw Dana do a podcast with the premier and it physically made me sick.”
Holy fu*king sh*t.

He continued to mock the reaction:

We were actually laughing about it. We were reading the story in the back and cracking up at that guy.

That guy’s got to be the biggest f*cking wimp on planet Earth.

As for the Daily Telegraph cover featuring Strickland, White didn’t appear particularly offended – just surprised that a mainstream newspaper would publish such a headline:

I’m a big believer in free speech.
It probably seems worse when you come here because your media are such weak human beings.

I thought we had weak media.
You guys win, hands down.

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