Comedian and actor Steve-O says Dana White left the UFC Nashville main event to watch Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz instead.

“Oscar De La Hoya was there,” White said Tuesday following Dana White’s Contender Series 72 at the UFC Apex. “Let’s put it that way. Nobody is banned from the UFC. Listen, that kid knows how to market and do his thing and all that good sh*t. Jake Paul is welcome to come to UFC. He just can’t bring that… you know.”

Jake Paul is one of the most controversial figures in sports today. Many fans of boxing and MMA believe that he is deteriorating the sport from the inside while attempting to knock off some of the sport’s greatest athletes.

Jake Paul is not banned from attending UFC events, according to UFC CEO Dana White. Over the weekend, Paul went viral when he posted a video of himself

According to Dana White, there's no way he or the UFC could have known about Sean O'Malley's injury prior to UFC 306. O'Malley (18-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) lost his bantamweight title to Merab Dvalishvili (18-4 MMA,

Dana White had no idea that Sean O’Malley was going into his second bantamweight title defense with an injury. Set to headline one of the biggest combat sports events of all time, ‘Sugar’ was tasked with taking out top-raked contender Merab Dvalishvili in the Noche UFC headliner at Sphere in Las Vegas.