Dana Backtracks On Fighter Health Benefits — Just Kidding!

UFC President Dana White claims his comment about long-term fighter health benefits was all a big misunderstanding.

If you are a UFC fighter eager for more comprehensive fighter health benefits, don’t hold your breath.

UFC fighters around the globe must perked up when UFC President Dana White assured that long-term health benefits were coming to UFC fighters. It all took place in the comments section of an impromptu Q&A with White hosted by broadcaster Karyn Bryant.

A fan commented on the post asking, “Will the UFC ever offer their fighters full-time health benefits so they can have them after their careers are over and possibly deal with life-altering issues from fighting[?]”

The UFC boss simply replied, “Soon.”

In a follow-up with UFC Arabia Farah Hannon, White insisted it was all a misunderstanding.

“Yeah, uhm, that actually wasn’t a Q&A, that was on Instagram,” White said (h/t Lowkick MMA). “I responded to the wrong guy when I said ‘soon’ [laughs]. That was wrong actually, I responded — I noticed that later, that I had said, ‘soon’, but it was on the wrong post. I wasn’t talking to that guy. It was somebody else.“

Former UFC champion and current Bellator queen Cris Cyborg, or whoever runs her Twitter account, shunned the promotion for not taking care of its athletes long-term.

”Fighters like @timsylviamma and more deserve to have their injuries from fighting in the @ufc taken care of without paying thousands once their careers are over,” she tweeted.