The UFC President function has lengthy been stuffed by Dana White, and he has no need to surrender that throne to anybody else. This was expressed by White throughout a current interview with Luke Elsman for his YouTube channel, with footage from that chat shared to X account @Home_of_Fight.
When touching upon his mindset relating to his prolonged tenure as UFC‘s figurehead and the way he nonetheless desires so as to add many extra chapters to that story, White mentioned,
“Like individuals hold asking me ‘I’d have retired a very long time in the past.’ The f**okay am I going to do if I retire? So once I was youthful, the older individuals to me all the time used to say, I’m going to retire and be consuming mai tais on the seashore and all this s**t. I am going on nice holidays.”
“After ten days, I’m sick of placing f***ing solar tan lotion on, I’m sick of consuming, I’m sick of all of the s**t, and I’m able to get again to the grind… Properly you’re exceeding your ranges. That’s simply the best way that I believe after which so far as the enterprise goes, I’m all the time pondering how will we make the enterprise greater and larger and larger and larger daily. So I simply wished to share that with you.”
UFC would crumble with out Dana White, per MMA legend
Dana White is such an necessary determine to the UFC that one of many largest stars in combined martial arts historical past feels just like the business chief would collapse with out White on the helm. This was expressed lately by Ronda Rousey, who talked about this to Bert Kreischer on a current episode of his podcast.
Throughout that referenced alternate, Rousey acknowledged [via MMA Fighting],
“I believe with out Dana, its soul is gone. I really like him a lot. When Dana’s accomplished, I believe the dominant MMA group title shall be up for grabs. I believe Dana is it. With out him, it’s simply three letters.”
Subsequent 12 months will mark 1 / 4 century since Dana White has helmed his place within the promotion, as Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta purchased the UFC in 2001.
