This was posted on Sherdog and I thought it was great.
Dear Josh,
We have a problem.
It seems ever since the UFC excluded you from the press, you've been acting like the proverbial scorned lover ever since: making sure you won't be ignored, and demanding undeserved attention at every corner you obsessively lurk. You're like the Alex Forrest of journalists, except you somehow manage to be uglier than Glenn Close (circa The Shield, not Fatal Attraction).
But you've got balls as big as hers, and for that, I've gotta hand it to you. You see, we need responsible sports journalism in this day and age. Especially at a time when the sport is still a fledgling one, and it's now affiliated with juggernauts like ESPN. In other words Josh, the days of spoiling a popular, mainstream television show such as the "The Ultimate Fighter", and then re-treating from such a disingenuous action by justifying it because you (incorrectly) qualify such a thing as "news" (Josh' quote) are over.
There's no way you can be expected to be taken seriously when your hit job, I mean, opinion piece, regarding Dana and steroid use in MMA, is littered with insults and jabs abound. Do you honestly believe by doing so, your letter looks less like a call to action, and more like a child with a computer typing with his elbows fueled by vengeance?
Here's an opportunity to actually do something that won't make it look like you're not ALWAYS a bitter, vindictive schlub that can't refrain from throwing temper tantrums whenever the words "Dana" and "White" are strung together in a sentence.
I bet Josh wish he hadn't wrote that letter. I bet he just did it on the spur of the moment and thought all the fans would rally behind him.. But then it backfired and he just went "Oh fuck.."
Gross and White sound like two chicks in a high school 'bitch-off'.
Dana says it's not up to him. Gross thinks he should excercise more
control over his fightes. Both are correct, both are extremists harpping
from opposite ends of the spectrum (on this matter).
Steroids are an issue. Who tends to the issue is a non-issue.
Josh taking on BLAF is a good. Someone who will tell BLAF what needs to be said. BLAF attacks to distract from the key issues. BLAF needs to stop being a bully and start being smart about this whole drug problem.
I ask myself "what has Dana White done to endear himself to these UG'ers?"
He charges us 45 bucks for watered down cards....then, charges us for the DVD so we can watch the other fights on the card.
Has Youtube constantly raided to delete ANY footage.
He treats his B,C, and D level fighters like shit, and pays them as such.
and his actions speak louder than words: When the UFC travelled to locales that did not have mandatory drug testing, they didn't!!! (or, the results were not released, which is basically an N/A not applicable)
Im with Gross on this situation, as I am with most situations.
Dana White is the classic UNION WORKER, turned into MANAGEMENT.
As a fighter manager, he was pushing for sponsoring for supplemental income for fighters, and was pushing for more money.
Now that he's the bossman, he pays his fighters with the change that falls from his pockets, and he outlaws sponsors on his TV shows (fuzzy blur), and doesn't always allow fighters to thank their sponsors.
I've heard Gross be critical of Pride and K-1 brass, Ed Fishman, Calvin Ayre, yet no one screamed "VENDETTA" at those statements. I think people just use the whole bad blood debacle between the Sherdoggers and UFC and overblow it a tad. Plus their lackluster journalistic record doesn't help (though I do like the newer articles about the Jpn MMA scene) and the fact that the owners do come across like lame fanboy losers.