At the UFC 152 post-fight presser, UFC president Dana White blasted Bellator, a rival promotion for using matching rights to keep fighters under contract one their contract is up.

"I don't talk much about Bellator, but what they do is one of the dirtiest things you can do in the business," said White. "It's dirty, it's grimy, and it's just despicable. Of course I have the right to match, but once I cut a guy and let him go and somebody else tries to sign him, I don't come back and say, `Oh, you're breaking the contract. I have matching rights.' You made the decision to cut him. You cut him. That's one of the scummiest, dirtiest things you can do.”

"I guess that's the way those guys do business. We don't do business like that."

Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney was a guest on Ariel Helwani’s “The MMA Hour” on Monday and accused White of being a hypocrite, since he believes the UFC follows the exact same policy Bellator does when it comes to matching fighter contracts.

"It's a very, very hypocritical statement," Rebney mused.

"We had to go through the exact same process with Zuffa when we signed ‘King Mo.' Zuffa released ‘King Mo' Lawal on March 27, 2012. They went public with their release, they put it up on their own website, on UFC.com, Dana confirmed the release of 'King Mo' to the media on the exact same day, and then in April, when Bellator looked to sign 'King Mo,' we had to submit our full contract to Zuffa. We sent it certified mail to their attorneys. Then we had to wait 14 full business days, which is typically 20-to-21 days in total, for them to decide if they were going to match or not going to match -- which thankfully they didn't, and we ended up with one of the most exciting and entertaining light heavyweights in the world -- but, this is, to the letter, the exact same process.

Bellator had recently received some flak for refusing to release Tyson Nam from his contract shortly after he defeated the Bellator bantamweight champion Eduardo Dantas last month. The problem: the bout took place under the Shooto Brazil banner.

Rebney and company apparently took the loss personally, as Nam remains in a contract dispute with the organization and cannot compete elsewhere in the meantime.

Roget Hollett, who lost a lop-sided decision to Matt Hamill at UFC 152, only got an opportunity to fight in the Octagon when Vladimir Matyushenko had to withdraw due to an injury. 

Hollett was initially considered to fight Hamill in his comeback fight, after a brief retirement from the sport, but had to take his hat out of the ring when Bellator used the matching clause in his contract.

Is White accurate in saying that Bellator plays dirty or is Rebney on the money by indicating that matching clauses in a contract are simply standard procedure?