Belfort, White clash over aftermath of canceled retirement bout

Vitor Belfort aims to be compensated for holding up his end of an ill-fated retirement bout, but Dana White has other ideas.

The 40-year-old saw his middleweight fight with Uriah Hall at this weekend's UFC Fight Night 124 fall through at the 11th hour when Hall passed out on his way to the scale and was subsequently hospitalized, but Belfort fulfilled his prefight obligation and tipped the scales at 186 pounds - prompting him to request his fight purse in a Sunday Instagram post.

"Now, a message to the UFC: I'm waiting for my payment," Belfort wrote, as translated from Portuguese by MMAjunkie's Fernanda Prates. "After all, I did what had to be done (I trained, I was present on fight week, I made weight...) Where is the respect?"

While some fighters have been compensated under such circumstances, the UFC hasn't implemented a policy regarding the payment of show money to athletes whose opponents pull out at the last minute. As White revealed postfight, the promotion offered to keep Belfort on the bill against a short-notice replacement or book him on this Saturday's UFC 220, but the Brazilian turned down both matchups. MMAjunkie's John Morgan has since reported prospect Karl Roberson and Brad Tavares had been entertained as potential dance partners.

"We offered him a fight tonight," White said. "Vitor could have fought tonight. We got him a fight and offered him a fight, and he turned it down. We also got him a fight in Boston, and he turned that down too.

"(UFC matchmaker Mick Maynard) and those guys know. I just got back from vacation, but Vitor could have fought tonight. He turned it down. He didn't want to fight in Boston either."

Belfort has remained mum on whether he'll hang up his gloves or take the cage one last time, but after the rumor mill whispered he could face Michael Bisping - whom he knocked out in 2013 - on the UFC's March bill in London, White told the media he's "not opposed" to putting a rematch together.