UF194: Dana White Talks GSP vs. Nate Diaz, the UFC Lightweight Title Picture, and Much More, and Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson Breaks Down His UFC Liverpool Fight Against Darren Till

UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra

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4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

UFC President Dana White joins the show and discusses trying to put together a GSP vs. Nate Diaz Lightweight fight and an Alexander Gustafsson vs. Luke Rockhold at Light Heavyweight, working on a new contract with Eddie Alvarez, Nicco Montano's status, Conor McGregor, Dustin Poirier, Kevin Lee, Tony Ferguson, and the rest of the UFC Lightweight title picture, Leslie Smith's labor complaint against Zuffa, Oscar De La Hoya's "Golden Boy MMA" plans, Mario Yamasaki attending a refereeing seminar, Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania, and a lot more. Before that, Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson calls in and talks about fighting Darren Till in Liverpool on May 27, the UFC Welterweight title picture, RDA vs. Colby Covington for the interim belt, how his thumbs are healing up, and more. Plus, Jim and Matt discuss news involving Ray Borg, UFC 225 and Illinois' zero-tolerance marijuana policy, Gunnar Nelson's knee injury, Dan Hardy's possible Octagon return, amongst other things.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome to UFC unfiltered we have a great episode Matt and I joke around we laugh we
0:05.6	Refall in love we have Wonder Boy on the phone we have Dana White on the phone we laugh again we fall in love the third time
0:10.9	It's fun Jimmy. It's fun fun fun
0:17.2	Chas are dropped throughout this arena nobody is sitting down chasing that finish out those raining down
0:22.6	Oh
0:24.6	You hit me oh he heard him again
0:27.6	This is UFC unfiltered and now your hosts Jim Norton and Matt Sarah
0:39.2	I do that for the team spirit Jimmy. I know you do Matt jumped up and put us talking about your that no Jimmy
0:45.7	I'll say that idea of team spirit what so what I'm like. What are you doing?
0:49.4	I did two things he whispers team spirit every Monday
0:53.1	Hi and Wednesday high five I did and then I did a we did a pound I gave you a fist
0:59.2	Yeah, but then you you just did the pound and went back to looking at the the sheets and I did the pound
1:05.3	I did the little like I didn't I see a lot of way my fingers
1:08.3	Yeah, I don't kind of ruined it. You're not believe in I'm glad I did I don't believe in that all right
1:11.6	I we have a packed show today we have
1:14.9	Stephen Thompson of course is calling in Wonder Boy who we love in nice fighting Darren till who's kind of young up and coming
1:21.2	Fight it was he 16 on one you said Chris he is and
1:24.7	They're fighting in Liverpool it's the first headline fight and I guess the first about matching Liverpool and who else is on that fight that
1:31.2	Oh Darren tells the one who actually announced it okay. He's from the
1:33.7	Daren Tee is yeah, I thought he was Polish for some reason because they fought in Poland him in yeah, he know he fought cowboy in Poland
1:39.0	Okay, I thought he was Polish so there they are the main event. It's a fantastic fight man
1:43.8	Originally to Daren Teele and wanted to fight Wonder Boy wanted to know because it's obviously to jump down and rank
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