Things have barely changed between UFC president Dana White and former Bellator MMA founder and CEO Bjorn Rebney. Bjorn has sold his promotion company to Viacom years ago and now he's back with a new announcement that has made White furious. White calls Rebney the "biggest scumbag in the history of combat sports" after he aligned with the new Mixed Martial Arts Athletes Association or MMAAA. He is joined by top fighters along with familiar UFC stars like Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone who has not formally inform Dana White regarding this new move.

The Daily Telegraph reported White's reaction to Bjorn's new promotion. In a UFC podcast, Dana said that he does not know enough to really talk about the MMAAA but the only thing that he knows is that Rebney is the "biggest scumbag in the history of combat sports" and that the promoter is a part of it.

White warned fighters that the last thing that they want is to have Rebney manage their careers. "if this is what you want to do, you've got to figure out whose hand you want in your pocket and I guarantee you don't want Bjork's hand in your pocket."

On the other hand, in his very long press conference for the new MMAAA, Rebney revealed that UFC pays their athletes eight per cent of their total revenue. He would like to take the challenge and pay his athletes 50 per cent.

White did not let this pass and pointed out that Rebney does not know anything about UFC and his numbers were all wrong. He also revealed that the only reason why Bjorn is with the MMAAA is that he was unemployed. Again he warned fighters to think twice about joining MMAAA and to ask other fighters about their opinion about Bjorn.

Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone joining the MMAAA was another thing that ticked White off. He mentioned that he once helped Cerrone with a legal dilemma and that he was always there for him and his other fighters. Cowboy did not bother to tell him about his plans of joining the MMAAA and was with other UFC greats like Georges St-Pierre, Tim Kennedy, TJ Dillashaw and Cain Velasquez.

According to GameNGuide, White was not the only one upset that Bjorn returned to MMA. Randy Couture, former UFC champ and MMA agent Malki Kawa also expressed similar sentiments with the UFC president.

Randy was surprised that Bjorn was suddenly supporting fighter rights but when he was part of Bellator, he did not demonstrate this at all. Malki Kawa tweeted that if Bjorn was in then he was out saying he was the most anti-fighter promoter that he has ever met.

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