Dana White Replies to Fans on the Internet | Actually Me | GQ Sports

i told these guys at gq there isn't any question that i won't answer except this one what's up gq i am ufc president dana white and i am going undercover on the internet it's actually me [Music] twitter i like twitter i i don't hate twitter a lot of negativity on twitter a lot of douche bags on twitter but i don't hate it dana white had hair yes i had hair of course i had hair at one point in time dana white how many casinos are you banned from it's not that i'm banned from casinos they just don't want me to play there they won't give me the limits that i want and they won't let me bet as much as i want because they don't like to lose the palm has kicked me out of there twice the mirage the win will not let me play the only places that will let me play in town are caesar's palace the bellagio and the venetian all those guys take really big play but if you are a big player and you come into town you're insane not to play at caesar's palace caesar's dallas is by far the best casino in the world in the world we never got dana white versus tito ortiz how about dana white versus jake paul let's make it a triller fight zoofa boxing co-promotion for all the marbles you guys realize i'm 53 years old now right when i was gonna fight tito is 37 i'm 53. come talk to me when you [ __ ] idiots are 53 years old and tell me if you want to fight some [ __ ] 20 year old kid i promise you you do not you are a jackass santu mcgregor and mayweather 2 is supposed to happen can someone confirm this mcgregor mayweather 2 is not supposed to happen shouldn't happen hopefully won't happen dana white if you had to cut if you had to cut one champion who would you choose this is a dirty question dirty dirty question and i told these guys at gq there isn't any question that i won't answer except this one if ufc president dana white booked fedor or a million echo versus brock lesnar in 2009 who would have won obviously i'm very biased when answering this question but i'm going with brock lesnar brock wanted the fight i tried to make the fight we offered fedor emilianenko an ungodly amount of money and they didn't want the fight i don't know what to tell you why do you think people seem to talk about ufc fighter pay i also would like to get paid more my job lol listen there aren't too many things you can talk [ __ ] about the ufc about if you look at what we've done with the business in the last 22 years it's incredible never been done ever the things that we've done in the fight business you always have to have something to [ __ ] about i guess and fighters always want to make more money boxing has absolutely been destroyed because of money and and all the things that go on it's never going to happen while i'm here believe me these guys get paid what they're supposed to get paid they eat what they kill they get a percentage of the pay-per-view buys and the money is spread out amongst all the fighters if you don't like it there's a simple solution to this problem go start your own mma organization no buried entry knock yourself out pay them whatever you want to pay them it's been done before how's it worked out for other guys not well mind your business quora the [ __ ] is quora how good of a boxer was dana white obviously not very good or i wouldn't be a promoter would bruce lee and his peak be able to contend with today's top mma fighters it's such an unfair question i'm such a huge bruce lee fan i mean bruce lee in his day we wouldn't be where we are today without bruce lee so to try to compare him to today's fighters is ridiculous can habib na mergameth be considered as the goat in the ufc it's it's so hard obviously he's talented enough i you know who knows what he could accomplish but he retired too early i mean jon jones is probably going to fight at heavyweight this year you know whatever you think about john it's it's hard not to call him the goat believe me when i tell you i've tried to convince habib to come out of retirement we'll see what happens over the next couple of years but i feel like he left in his prime i mean look at what he did to justin gaichy right before he retired how did dana white get involved in the ufc so i was involved in in boxing and myself and my partners the fertitta brothers started taking jiu jitsu we fell in love with it we became obsessed with it and through that we started to meet a lot of the fighters and i started to manage chuck liddell and tito ortiz that's really how we got involved tick tock is vegas still the boxing city or is it a ufc city i would call it the fight capital of the world all the big things that are going on here as far as combat sports go happen in vegas but abu dhabi has become a very close second and with what abu dhabi has planned for the next 10 years very cool what is your favorite ufc rivalry there's been so many good ones cormier and jones is right up there though one of my favorites they were both so good i truly believe that they were two of the absolute best fighters in the world when they faced each other wikipedia white entered the boxing scene by co-promoting floyd mayweather versus conor mcgregor in 2017 white said that he's getting into boxing 100 white says he wants to incorporate boxing in the company's portfolio of the ufc this is true and every time i start to go down the road to get involved in boxing i go have i lost my [ __ ] mind am i crazy why would i ever want to get involved in this corrupt insane [ __ ] up sport and then you know i jump out for a while and then i i start to think about it again literally just started thinking about it a month ago got on the phone with a couple boxing guys hung up the phone and said have i lost my [ __ ] mind again why would i want to be in business with any of these guys instagram will we ever get to see ufc africa absolutely positively 100 percent that will be a ufc africa which fighter on the current roster has the potential to have the same impact on ufc as conor mcgregor maybe a hamza chemiev we'll see what outside influences have shaped the way you promote ufc and produce shows and cards most of my influences have come from obviously i was a big boxing fan growing up i feel like i i always knew what fight fans wanted to see and didn't want to see most of my early influence was based on boxing yeah it'd be hard to say that the wwe didn't influence me too yeah with their live events and things that they've done 100 but mostly boxing reddit what's the most satisfying victory for you out of any ufc fight when chuck liddell knocked tito ortiz out that was my favorite favorite moment that has ever happened in ufc history de la hoya wants to sit down with dana white to bury the hatchet i feel like de la hoya's apology was sincere but there's no way that he and i can ever be friends again you know he and i were actually friends i used to go to his fights i used to watch his fights he used to promote his fights that guy did way too much damage for us to ever be friends again i appreciate his apology get it we're cool but we're never gonna be that cool what is the most brutal finish in ufc mma history the pick one is tough i mean there's been so many recently tony ferguson versus chandler the leg breaks of anderson silva and chris weidman conor mcgregor's leg break there's been a few youtube dana what fighters are on your top five all-time ufc list jon jones anderson silva ronda rousey conor mcgregor gsp there's so many other people that should be on the uzman should be on there why is dana so concerned about pirating streams who cares i care dummy that's how everybody makes their money you're bitching about fighters not making enough money they get a piece of the pay-per-view people who steal it are stealing from us and them and what happens to people who steal you get [ __ ] smashed and you go to jail that's what happens to you and i make sure that we get you everybody was [ __ ] laughing at me when i was talking about this we caught a lot of people people weren't laughing when they got caught and a lot of people begging me not to prosecute them stealing the stealing i wonder what is going through dana white's head during these face-offs also what was the craziest face-off what's going through my head is making sure that they don't touch each other and a big fight doesn't break out on stage tough to say what would be the craziest connor and nate diaz got pretty crazy there's a bunch of them that have gotten crazy but the toughest ones are when you have monster heavyweights that if they really start freaking out there's not much i'm going to be able to do i would like to think that cormier jones would have gone differently had i been there but that was probably the worst one ever i mean they're fighting in the lobby of the mgm grand yeah it was a bad one for us all right that's a wrap we're signing out here on the internet

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Length: 9min 7sec (547 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 11 2022