{"id":20574,"date":"2019-12-02T07:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=20574"},"modified":"2019-12-02T07:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:01:18","slug":"tyson-furys-dad-wants-to-fight-disrespectful-dana-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=20574","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury\u2019s Dad Wants To Fight Disrespectful Dana White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Photo by Joe Maher\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury is a bad man. And so is his father John, who didn&rsquo;t take UFC president Dana White&rsquo;s recent comments doubting his son&rsquo;s ability to hang in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/10\/27\/20935246\/tyson-fury-plans-to-train-with-conor-mcgregor-for-mma-debut-after-wwe-crown-jewel\">talking about a potential mixed martial arts run<\/a> for the past couple of weeks, and went so far as to spend a couple hours training the basics of sprawl and brawl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/11\/10\/20958550\/video-15-minutes-of-tyson-fury-working-his-sprawlnbrawl-with-darren-till\">with Darren Till recently. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>White has been pretty complimentary of Fury in the past, calling him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/6\/15\/18680173\/dana-white-agrees-tyson-fury-is-the-best-heavyweight-boxer-in-the-world-espn-wilder-boxing-schwarz\">the best heavyweight boxer in the world<\/a> earlier this year. But when it comes to competing in the UFC?<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"Till Gives Tyson Fury 70% Chance Of Fighting MMA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/11\/24\/20981298\/darren-till-talks-tyson-fury-70-chance-he-fights-in-mma\"},{\"title\":\"Video: 15 Minutes Of Tyson Fury Sprawl N&rsquo; Brawling With Darren Till\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/11\/10\/20958550\/video-15-minutes-of-tyson-fury-working-his-sprawlnbrawl-with-darren-till\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&rdquo;Why come over here and get smashed when you can stay there?&rdquo; White asked when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/11\/6\/20950270\/midnight-mania-dana-white-boxing-tyson-fury-claressa-shields-ufc\">talking to TMZ Sports.<\/a> &ldquo;Tyson Fury, your time is now. You&rsquo;re the man in boxing. You&rsquo;re one of the top four guys in the world in boxing. Why even think about coming over here?&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pretty soft criticism from White, who is known for dropping harsh truth bombs on most non-professionals thinking they can just cross over like it&rsquo;s NBD. But it still pissed off John Fury.<\/p>\n<p>&rdquo;You can&rsquo;t write a man off with Tyson&rsquo;s ability and heart and will to win and [White] knows that, he&rsquo;s talking stupid,&rdquo; John Fury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2019\/11\/12\/20961642\/ufc-mma-fight-news-interview-video-tyson-fury-john-president-dana-white-heavyweight\">said in an IFL TV video.<\/a> &ldquo;Let him talk to me like that, I&rsquo;ll fight him, match me up with him tonight. He won&rsquo;t be saying that again would he?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data='{\"stories\":[{\"title\":\"Mayweather Sr. Will &lsquo;Whup Dana White&rsquo;s Ass&rsquo; If Floyd Jr. Takes A UFC Fight\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/11\/24\/20981074\/mayweather-sr-will-whup-dana-whites-ass-if-floyd-jr-takes-a-ufc-fight\"},{\"title\":\"White: Fury Is The Best Heavyweight Boxer In The World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/6\/15\/18680173\/dana-white-agrees-tyson-fury-is-the-best-heavyweight-boxer-in-the-world-espn-wilder-boxing-schwarz\"}]}'><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>John recently made headlines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/furys-trainer-hits-back-john-furys-plea-fire-team--142587\">demanding Tyson fire his coaching staff<\/a> after a near loss by cut in a filler fight with Otto Wallin in September. So he&rsquo;s no stranger to brash talk. This is pretty meaty even by those standards.<\/p>\n<p>&rdquo;I believe I&rsquo;m the best 54-year-old man in the world,&rdquo; John continued. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m the fittest, I know that. I&rsquo;m the best 54-year-old man on the planet and I&rsquo;m going to prove it anytime, anyplace, anywhere, for free or for money, so let him take that in his pipe and smoke it. And I mean that mate. Keep my son&rsquo;s name out of your mouth. If it&rsquo;s not good don&rsquo;t talk about him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Wow, that&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/11\/24\/20981074\/mayweather-sr-will-whup-dana-whites-ass-if-floyd-jr-takes-a-ufc-fight\">two fathers of boxing legends in a couple of weeks<\/a> threatening to kick Dana White&rsquo;s ass.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s too bad Dana White&rsquo;s bad blood exhibition boxing days are over after he broke his body down training for a Tito Ortiz boxing match that never even happened. The MMA promoter now suffers from Meniere&rsquo;s disease, an inner-ear disorder that can cause horrible vertigo and tinnitus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2013\/2\/22\/4018206\/ufc-dana-white-ear-surgery-menieres-disease-mma\">All the cutting edge medical treatment millions of dollars can buy<\/a> keeps White going through the UFC&rsquo;s grueling schedule, but we don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s going to box John Fury over some comments that weren&rsquo;t even an insult in any sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Joe Maher\/Getty Images Tyson Fury is a bad man. And so is his father John, who didn&rsquo;t take UFC president Dana White&rsquo;s recent comments doubting his son&rsquo;s ability to hang in the UFC. Tyson has been talking about a potential mixed martial arts run for the past couple of weeks, and went so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}