UFC's Dana White Calls St. Pierre's New Agents "Pukes"

Fighters.com recently reported that Welterweight Champion “Rush” Georges St. Pierre (17-2) had signed with CAA Sports, an agency that represents David Beckham, Derek Jeter, LeBron James, and Tony Hawk, among other high profile athletes.

That’s a step towards main stream recognition of MMA and, therefore, a boost to the UFC, one would think.

“All those Hollywood agents.  You know how I feel about that,” UFC President Dana White told the Canadian Press.  “They’re all a bunch of pukes who tell you, ‘We can do this, we can do that.’  If they deliver on 20 percent of what they tell you they’re going to do, you know…  When you end up signing with those guys, they end up fucking you up some way.”

GSP’s manager, Shari Spencer, countered, “This is an avenue to getting to those premium sponsors.  [St. Pierre is] not only one of the most talented in the sport but he’s probably the most marketable.”

White compared the CCA Sports to The Gersh Agency, fifth-ranked heavyweight and UFC Champion “The Natural” Randy Couture’s (16-8) agency.

Couture and The Gersh Agency took Zuffa, LLC, the parent company of the UFC, to court to escape Couture’s contract; but, the two sides have since resolved the situation.

White explained, “Randy Couture, when do you think all that shit started?  Where do you think it started?  It started from the day me and that agent had that talk on the phone.  That’s when it started.”

Spencer compared working with CCA Sports to find sponsor for GSP like “waiting for the right guy to ask you to go to the prom sort of thing rather than just taking anybody that came along.”

White’s comments make him out to be GSP’s jilted ex-boyfriend.