While promoting this fight, UFC president Dana White ordered Dan ‘The Outlaw’ Hardy’s tattoo to be “wiped clean” from all the promo materials. The tattoo is in Tibetan. A Tibetan prayer: “Om Mani Padme Hum”. White said – “I’m trying to get into China. I don’t need anti-Chinese government stuff on my fighters” SHAME ON UFC.

President Dana White isn’t exactly going to win any PC awards anytime soon. The notorious spokesman for the rapidly-growing full contact martial arts empire is known for his tendency to speak first and think later. In one famously public tirade, White went ballistic on journalist Lorretta Hunt, calling her a “bitch” and a “moron” and labeling one of her sources both a derogatory term for homosexual and a derogatory term for female genitalia, respectively.

Apparently however, White’s predilection for free expression is not something that he values in those who work for him. Hence his decision to remove welterweight contender Dan Hardy’s Tibetan language tattoo from all promotions for the upcoming UFC 111 fight, in order to not offend the Chinese government. “I’m trying to get into China. I don’t need anti-Chinese government stuff on my fighters” said White, eloquent as always.