Dana White’s hypocrisy should mean Josh Koscheck gets booted from the UFC

While Paul Daley isn’t wasting any time lining up a fight following is dismissal from the UFC for sucker punching Josh Koscheck, UFC president Dana White continues to justify a horrible double standard in regards to fighter transgressions. He fires Daley for punching Koscheck long after the final bell yet he has no problem recruiting Jake Shields or keeping Nate Diaz in the fold, even though both were involved in the Strikforce brawl with Jason “Mayhem” Miller a couple of weeks ago.

In fact, assuming the Tennessee Athletic Commission doesn’t issue a suspension, expect Diaz to face Marcus Davis at UFC 117 in Boston in August. (Davis is coming off  TKO win over Jonathan Goulet at UFC 113, which has resulted in Goulet being dropped by the promotion, according to his Facebook status.)

White tells Yahoo’s Kevi Iole that Diaz and Daley are two entirely separate cases with completely different circumstances – primarily that Diaz is a Diaz and bat-shit insane so you should expect him to suddenly attack a fighter following a bout in which neither of them were involved while live on national television. “When you start a fight next to the Diaz brothers [Nathan’s older brother, Nick, was also involved], what do you think is going to happen, particularly if you start a fight with someone from their crew?” White tells Iole.

Reminds me of the story of the scorpion and the frog. Diaz attacked Miller because that’s his nature so it’s acceptable. Never mind that Daley isn’t exactly a choir boy and by that measure would also be prone to snapping. All of which ignores the basic belief that people are responsible for their actions.

White is essentially laying all blame for the Strikeforce fight on Miller, who acted like a jackass but didn’t exactly deserve to have the shit kicked out of him. He’s blaming the victim. I’m surprised he didn’t kick Koscheck out of the UFC for getting punched.

When it was pointed out that White cut Nick Diaz when he got in a brawl with Joe Riggs in a hospital emergency room immediately following their UFC 57 bout, he explained that it was because it happened in a hospital, where “people are sick and dying.”

Now, I’m not saying Daley shouldn’t have been cut from the UFC – he clearly got what he deserved – but it would be nice is White’s hypocrisy weren’t so blatantly obvious.