“I think it’s ridiculous. People think we’re anti-competition? We’re anti-dumb competition. Doing stupid things like this, putting a 50-year-old guy in the Octagon for the first time, and then going out there putting out press releases like it’s a big deal because you signed a 50-year-old Herschel Walker? Are you serious? Strikeforce is a small, little, regional show. The geniuses over at Showtime, these guys are the most arrogant, cocky, pompous jackasses I’ve ever met in my whole life. Which athletic commission is going to let this guy fight? Who the f**k are they going to find to fight Herschel Walker? A guy in a wheelchair?”
– UFC President Dana White blasts the recent Strikeforce acquisition of former NFL legend Herschel Walker on Inside The Ultimate Fighter (via MMA Fanhouse), who at age 47 is expected to make his debut for the San Jose-based promotion in January 2010. White maintains that he is not opposed to competition, rather he opposes bad decisions that cast the still-growing sport in a negative light. Does Walker, a karate black belt, have something to offer Showtime audiences? Or is this a signing that will come back to haunt Scott Coker and Co. down the road? Opinions please.