Dana White to reporter who questioned the last Saudi card: 'That's your opinion, sir'

White said all UFC cards are great and asked when the last bad one was, after the reporter brought up Khamzat Chimaev pulling out of his fight with Robert Whittaker in Saudi Arabia.

Dana White told a reporter "that's your opinion, sir" after he said the UFC's last card in Saudi Arabia "didn't, like, show up that much", at the UFC 333 post-fight press conference in Abu Dhabi.

Yazen, a reporter from Saudi MMA, asked about the UFC's next event in Saudi Arabia and said the rumour was that Israel Adesanya would face Shara Bullet. White gave no details. "It's coming, it's happening," he said. "We're out here in the Middle East for like the next month and a half."

Asked whether the Saudi card would be as good as Qatar's, White said: "It's gonna be just as great as Qatar's card. All the cards are great. When's the last time we had a bad card?"

The reporter brought up Khamzat Chimaev pulling out of his fight with Robert Whittaker in Saudi Arabia. "Well, this shit happens," White said. "I'm talking about the cards, the fights. When was the last bad fight card we had?"

"To be honest, the last Saudi card didn't, like, show up that much," the reporter replied. "Okay. Well, that's your opinion, sir," White said, and ended the exchange with "Have a nice night."

UFC Saudi Arabia is set for 5 December, two weeks after UFC Qatar on 21 November, and White said at the same press conference that both events will go ahead despite the war in the region.

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