Ex-UFC fighter Cody McKenzie: 'I would love to fight Dana White'

It's safe to say there's no love lost between retired mixed martial artist Cody McKenzie and UFC president Dana White.

The 27-year-old Alaska native told Marc Raimondi of MMAFighting.com that while his pro fighting days are over, there's one fight that would bring him back.

"I would love to fight Dana White," McKenzie said. "I'd love to beat him up. He talks bad about fighters all the time, disrespects fighters. Yeah, he's a piece of work."

McKenzie was famously released from the UFC following a Dec. 14, 2013 fight against Sam Stout. He showed up to the fight wearing a pair of basketball shorts with the tags still on them and White called the act "UFC amateur hour."

Since his release in March 2014, McKenzie has been pretty vocal about his broken relationship with the UFC and how they treated him in his three years with the organization.

"They never had a problem getting ahold of me when they needed me to fight on short notice," McKenzie said. "But when it came down to firing me, (they couldn't). They all just seem like a bunch of bulls----ers.

"It almost seems like one big joke to the point where I'm just over it," McKenzie said. "I'm going to get a job. I can fish. I liked welding in school, I'm thinking about getting into that. I like art. There's lots of stuff out there to do. I definitely wish I got paid for fighting the best guys in the world, but more than that I just wish they'd treat their fighters good."

As for the president himself? Well, McKenzie has a remedy for that.

"Dana has never been in a fight," McKenzie said. "I'd fight Dana for free."