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Dana White's comments to Dave Meltzer about Strikeforce: Emelianenko vs. Rogers have been making the MMA blogosphere rounds and WKR decided to examine each point White made.

"CBS made its biggest mistake partnering with a tiny, small show with a roster no one cares about," said Dana White. "Just because you read on MMA.TV that someone is a superstar doesn't make it true. This should prove that no one out there gives a [expletive] about Fedor."

WKR is not sure what White is referring to as proof that no one cares about Fedor. If he means the 5.46 million people who watched the fight or the 1.6 million viewers that tuned in just to watch Fedor and Brett Rogers then White may be slightly mistaken. The Fedor vs. Rogers fight was the ninth most watched fight in MMA history --three of the top-ten were Kimbo Slice fights and six of the top ten took place on CBS-- that looks like a strong result to WKR.

"We're pulling those numbers on Spike," White said. "I mean, how the [expletive] is what they did considered any good in any way, shape or form?

This is only half true. The UFC has pulled over five million viewers on Spike but the most recent example of breaking the five million threshold was due to Kimbo Slice (the previous two times were Rampage vs. Henderson and Ortiz vs. Shamrock). None of the tape-delayed U.K. cards have broken four million viewers and the preliminary lead in fights on Spike haven't broken two million viewers.

What kind of numbers do you think we would pull with a live show on CBS? I'll tell you. Huge. It would be significantly, significantly more than what they got with these idiots from Showtime."

An interesting position. Obviously we can't prove or refute the claim though one would assume that a brand as powerful as the UFC would do well on network television. Then again a hypothetical UFC network show would have to feature top fighters to generate big ratings. However, the real question we should ask is, "what is/was preventing the UFC from signing a network deal?"

"If I hear any of you guys [sportswriters] calling Fedor the best pound-for-pound, I'm going to go postal," said White. "Do you think Brett Rogers would have lasted two minutes with Brock [UFC heavyweight champ Lesnar]? What do you think Cain Velasquez would do to him?"

Unfortunately we will never get to see these fights to prove whether or not Fedor is the best heavyweight in MMA.

For the record, WKR isn't calling Fedor the best pound-for-pound fighter. In our humble opinion it is the UFC's Anderson Silva who is the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA (knocking out a top-five opponent in a weight class above yours is evidence enough).