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10th January 2017
01:44pm GMT

"It's not going to be everybody's thing, and the last thing I expect is an uppity 80-year-old lady to be in our demographic and love mixed martial arts."
When asked whether the sport was an art or not, White didn't hesitate to completely disagree with Streep. He even paid her a brief compliment about her acting ability during his explanation for why MMA is a form of art.“If you really look at who follows the UFC and is in to mixed martial arts, it's everybody. Like I said: I don't expect an 80-year-old woman to be a big fan of mixed martial arts. And listen, everybody's into whatever they're... I'm not a big fan of golf. Doesn't mean people should stop watching it. If you don't like it, change the channel.”
For the record, Streep was born in 1949, making her considerably less than 80 years old.“Oh, of course it's an art. These fighters, the men and women, are so talented. They train their whole lives to become the best in the world. And the people who get into the UFC are the elite of the elite. It's saying something stupid like that is like saying that she's not a talented actress, which she is. She's a very talented actress.”
"We have fighters from all over the world... We do fights in tons of foreign countries. She's not educated about the sport and it was a completely uneducated comment.”
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