The UFC President position has lengthy been stuffed by Dana White, and he has no want to surrender that throne to anybody else. This was expressed by White throughout a latest 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 concerning his prolonged tenure as UFC‘s figurehead and the way he nonetheless needs so as to add many extra chapters to that story, White stated,
“Like folks hold asking me ‘I might have retired a very long time in the past.’ The f**okay am I going to do if I retire? So after I was youthful, the older folks to me all the time used to say, I’m going to retire and be ingesting mai tais on the seaside 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 ingesting, 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 feel after which so far as the enterprise goes, I’m all the time pondering how can we make the enterprise greater and larger and larger and larger day by day. So I simply needed 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 crumble with out White on the helm. This was expressed not too long ago by Ronda Rousey, who talked about this to Bert Kreischer on a latest episode of his podcast.
Throughout that referenced trade, Rousey acknowledged [via MMA Fighting],
“I feel with out Dana, its soul is gone. I really like him a lot. When Dana’s accomplished, I feel the dominant MMA group title might be up for grabs. I feel 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.
