"Tim Kennedy has a right to his opinion and he said what he said," White said. "I would have preferred that he'd gone out there, beat the [expletive] out of Gracie, then grabbed the mic [from in-ring interviewer] Joe Rogan, and then called me out: 'Hey Dana, I told you I deserved more money and then I went out and beat the [expletive] out of this guy.'
"Move the needle, man! Make someone care. Make someone give a [expletive] about you and your fight. But when you have fans doing the wave during your fight, I know one thing and that means you aren't moving the needle. Did anyone in that building that night give a [expletive] about Tim Kennedy? Not if they were doing the [expletive] wave during the fight. I wish he would have had a great fight and then stuck it in my face, because that would have made him a star. But it was obvious he wasn't moving the needle an inch."