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Dana White on Renan Barao after late removal from UFC 177: "He's not getting paid a dime"
Aug 31, 2014 - 1:15:50 AM Dana White on Renan Barao after late removal from UFC 177: "He's not getting paid a dime"

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

The UFC is taking a bit of a harsh stance on Renan Barao this week after he passed out cutting weight, taking him out of the UFC 177 main event.

After the event on Saturday night, UFC President Dana White told Fox Sports 1 that Barao won't be paid anything this week because of the incident.

"He didn't make weight. There's no other excuse, there's no other anything," White said. "He trained for six weeks, he trained for eight weeks, whatever it was, traveled here to do the fight, and he's not getting paid a penny. Nothing. Do you think I should pay him for this? He's not getting paid a dime."

White doesn't agree with the idea that Barao wanted out of the rematch with Dillashaw, and instead simply thinks something went wrong this week for the former Champ, and it's something that Barao and his team need to deal with.

"I absolutely, positively know he wanted the fight," White said. "Him and his team just made a mistake. They messed up somewhere along the line, and they need to figure it out... Maybe he needs to [move up to featherweight]. That's up to them, they need to figure it out."

Penick's Analysis: It was only three months ago that White was (erroneously) calling Barao the pound for pound best fighter on the planet. Now, Barao's getting told to move up in weight and getting torn apart because of the weight-cutting mishap. Joe Rogan pretty much ripped him apart during an interview on the prelim broadcast on FS1, and now that he's also losing any paycheck, it's a very costly mistake. That said, there have to be consequences for fighters not doing their jobs, and if you're scheduled for a main event fight, the biggest responsibility - especially come fight week - is to make weight to keep the event on track. Failure to do so is unacceptable, and that's what Barao is finding out. It's a bit of a "kick him while he's down" situation, but it's also hard to blame the UFC. Though the event wasn't going to get a ton of pay-per-view buys in the first place, Barao certainly cost them money by not being able to go ahead with the rematch they had been promoting for the last month.