Dana White: Strikeforce is Staying On Showtime; Announcement Will Come Next Week
(Apparently now the Zuffa is going to have to start trying again with Strikeforce.)
During today’s pre-UFC 140 press conference and media scrum UFC president Dana White revealed that his *other* MMA promotion will indeed be sticking around on Showtime and that he will lead the organization as it makes some changes in 2012.
“[Strikeforce is] staying, and hopefully I’ll have all the information for you next week,” White said. “Just sit and wait and watch what I do. Trust me, it’s going to be just fine. Like I said last time I talked to you guys about this, I’m getting into this, and I’m going to handle it.
Watch and see. We’ll see what happens. I know I keep saying this every week, but that deal should be wrapped up any day now, and then I’ll make the decisions on who goes where and what’s going to happen. So we should know hopefully by Monday.”
White hinted to MMAJunkie that Strikeforce could be run under a similar model to the WEC, which was once considered a feeder league for the UFC.
“[The WEC] did work. We had a great television deal with the WEC. It was very successful,” he pointed out. “The fights were awesome. There were people that loved watching the WEC fights. It absolutely worked.”