And shock of shocks, that point totally doesn’t resonate with him. Listen, I get that the idea that WWE is going to buy UFC and copromote or give Dana White some power and what he would do with it is a sexy story. It is really fantastic stuff and a grist mill for all sorts of speculation. The problem is that there is not a grain of legitimacy to such statements, and thus there is no reason for people who claim to be “journalists” to repeat them to the public. Would the New York Times put a front page article up about Skull And Bones and how Hunter S. Thompson was killed over his involvement in a child pornography ring that supplied gay pedophilic porn to former heads of state using “speculation on the internet” as its basis? It would sell a hell of a lot of papers, but they’d completely lose credibility in the minds of all.

We don’t know what UFC’s announcement is, but people on the net sure are taking positive, self-assured tones that their sources from message boards and other blog sites are so concrete that they can’t be wrong.

Here’s the link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25080229

He talks about the action figures and merchandising on CNBC, but does not reveal the “big announcement” he has hinted at, except to dispel rumors about it (it’s not WWE, IPO, no TV deal, no Floyd).

He says the announcement will be made on Thursday, as originally scheduled. Dave Meltzer (the journalist) reports that the announcement will be postponed until next week:

“The announcement today of the UFC action figures deal with Jakks is not the big announcement that has been teased all week. According to the UFC, that announcement will be made a week from today, and not on Thursday.”

http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=23118