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http://deadspin.com/mma-reporter-ariel-helwani-says-ufc-booted-him-from-mcg-1796822078

Dana at it again

MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani said today that he’d been abruptly booted by the UFC from covering the tour for the network airing the pay-per-view. This came about a year after a June 2016 fiasco in which Helwani was banned for life by the UFC for reporting news, before revealing that he had worked as the company’s paid shill. (His credentials were eventually restored.)

 

[Heroman]

Why?

 

[dream]

Commence Ariel's Media Tour of Tears 2017.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

 

[UberTag]

When do we get to watch Ariel Helwani and Dana White square off inside the octagon?

 

[dream]

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

When do we get to watch Ariel Helwani and Dana White square off inside the octagon?

Nosepoke to the eye DQ.

 

[parrotbeak]

I'm not even going to make a joke. Ariel is the best MMA journalist around and fuck Dana White.

 

[Realyn]

He's free to break news in advance aka Brock knowingly pissing people off and report negatively about things like unions, fighter pay and so on.

They're free to not give him a press pass and ask Showtime to remove him as co-producers of the event.

Someone explain to me how this is rocket science. If you have a big problem with it, boycott the company.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Why?

The UFC doesn't like him. He can still cover the event as a journo, but in this case he was working directly for SHOtime I believe. Petty but not all that surprising.

 

[dream]

A despondent Ariel, standing in the fan line with the rest of the plebs.

 

[Brinbe]

Lol carnys gon carny

 

[whytemyke]

I used to be on Team Ariel but after last year? Eh. I don't really care. Dana has been a knob to anyone not sucking his dick for YEARS. But Ariel is kind of a dweeb as well sooooo... Meh.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

He's free to break news in advance aka Brock knowingly pissing people off and report negatively about things like unions, fighter pay and so on.

They're free to not give him a press pass and ask Showtime to remove him as co-producers of the event.

Someone explain to me how this is rocket science. If you have a big problem with it, boycott the company.

Thing is he is still credentialed and covering the event, he's just not working for SHOtime directly.

 

[Khansolo1]

A despondent Ariel, standing in the fan line with the rest of the plebs.

Is that baby driver actor standing right next to him?

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

I used to be on Team Ariel but after last year? Eh. I don't really care. Dana has been a knob to anyone not sucking his dick for YEARS. But Ariel is kind of a dweeb as well sooooo... Meh.

Yeah, all of this.