Dana White: "Are We There Yet?"

Parents hate weekend get aways with the children and the frequent whining, "are we there yet?" Nothing can shorten a fuse more quickly than continuing to ask the question.

Apparently Dana White, one of the "parents" of the UFC, is completely worn thin by one question.

A resounding "NO!" is his answer to the question of Anderson Silva fighting Roy Jones Junior, even if the fight occurs inside a cage in a UFC event: the answer is still No!

And just as a parent might tell their child that something is not good for them, Dana is claiming the reason for the answer is that a Roy Jones Jr. vs Anderson Silva match up "would not be good for the sport of MMA."

How ironic!

Just weeks ago Dana White was bemoaning the fact that the Anderson Silva vs Thales Leites match ?was not exciting enough and let all the fans down."

Anderson has wanted only one particular fight for over a year now and that fight is with Roy Jones Jr his boxing hero. He has wanted it so badly that he only agreed to fight one more year in the UFC just to be able to have a chance at Jones before Jones retires.

That is desperation, which is something never seen in MW champion A. Silva before.

Now White wanted an exciting, crowd attracting Silva fight that would sell PPV's and put butts in seats: shouldn't he be jumping up and down in glee?

How is this bad for the UFC?

Wasn't it Dana White who braved the criticism of thousands of MMA fans by bringing former WWE champion Brock Lesnar into the UFC as a money making investment?

It certainly was the work of Dana White in propelling Lesnar to a champion without having to climb up the obligatory ladder that other UFC contenders are forced to climb. 

Isn't it Dana White who wants to increase the popularity of MMA in foreign nations all over the world? This fight would attract world interest.

How is this particular fight "bad" for MMA and the UFC in particular?

Some suggest that making this fight a reality would anger fans that White has not yet been able to secure Fedor Emilianenko to fight a HW UFC champion to end the question of Fedor's status as best P4P fighter of all time.

White apparently only welcomes fights that result from his imagination and are not claimed as someone else's brainchild. Only his willingness to be innovative counts, not the ideas of his own fighters or the public.

Well, how "White" of him. Dana is one of a kind; I personally thank God for that, as more than one Dana White would be insufferable.

Still, I am left with the question of "why not?"

If Anderson gets this one fight that he wants more than anything else, his whole outlook on resigning from the UFC could be changed.

Seeing a motivated, happy Anderson Silva would be a dream come true for millions of fans, so I am still asking...

Dana, "Are we there yet?"