Dana White: "Those guys will never fight in the UFC - ever."

MMA Fever has been following this story about Marlon Sims and Noah Thomas who were kicked off the Spike TV reality series, The Ultimate Fighter 5 for engaging in a backyard fight while the TUF5 series was filming.

According to the TV contract, the fighters are not permitted to engage in any harmful activity with the other contestants outside of the sanctioned fights in the octagon and clearly, Marlon and Noah including Allen Berube who acted as the backyard referee were all removed from the show for breaking the rules.

It was Spike TV that broke the news that Marlon Sims and Noah would be fighting at the TUF5 finale June 23rd however, Dana White has a slightly different perspective of what will go down that night and with whom according to his discussion with Steve Sievert of Brawl Sports:

"They're not fighting on the finale," said UFC President Dana White. "Not only are they not fighting in the finale, they'll never fight in the UFC. Spike wanted that fight. It ain't gonna happen. No (expletive) way is that fight going to happen. Those guys will never fight in the UFC - ever." - Dana White

When asked how and why the Spike TV press release was issued, Dana white responded:

"Mistakes happen. I didn't find out about it until yesterday. We make mistakes over here ... it's unfortunate."

Check out the rest of the sorted story over at Brawl Sports

Mistakes do happen... indeed!