"You ever hear of John Skipper?" White asked Cardone during the sitdown chat. "John Skipper ran ESPN. Now, I think he runs DAZN. Runs ESPN, beloved, looks like the squarest dude on the planet."
"Older guy," White continued. "Hates UFC. Hates it. Hates UFC. Big soccer guy. For whatever reason, people like different things. And I'm not s***ing on John Skipper. But this is a fact, this happened and this is a true story."
White says Skipper essentially blocked talks on a deal from ever going through .