Dana White makes official statement on Kurt Angle being in the UFC

UFC president Dana White spoke about Kurt Angle’s UFC aspirations on Saturday night at the UFC Live 6 post-fight press conference. Kurt Angle has talked up his chances of competing in the UFC for years now and even told us that he was supposed to be on season ten of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show. Dana White made several comments about Angle’s attempts to fight in the UFC at the conference, so here are the important quotes from it.

Kurt’s Desire To Compete in the UFC: “I like Kurt Angle. He’s a nice guy. I’ve never had any problems with Kurt Angle. Good guy. Kurt Angle was calling me to fight in the UFC. He wanted to fight in the UFC. He wanted to come over here and whatever, especially after Brock got in.”

What Kurt Angle Was Offered: “What I offered him was, I said, ‘Come over here. I’ll put you on ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’ The season Kimbo Slice was on, I was going to put him on ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’ He wanted to do it. We worked out a deal, but he didn’t pass the medicals.”

Angle’s claim that UFC Wanted Him To Fight Kimbo Slice: “That’s it. That’s all I’m saying. I never set up a pay-per-view fight for him. I never told him, ‘You’re fighting Kimbo Slice on pay-per-view.’ Kurt, you’re a good guy, but that’s not true, and that never happened. I thought it would be interesting, and I thought it would be cool, but never once did I say, ‘We’re going to set up a pay-per-view match with you and Kimbo.’ That is not true.”

In his interview with us, Kurt said he passed the medicals, but was not given sufficient time to get ready for the show, which is a legit-sounding excuse since pro-wrestlers do need to ask in advance for prolonged periods of time off. Just ask Ric Flair, he got in a ton of trouble in the late 90′s for taking time off that he thought he was allowed to, but WCW claimed he was not. Who is telling the truth here? I have no idea, so this sounds like a case not for The Fight Nerd, but for Judge Mathis. Daytime TV FTW!