Dana White News
VIDEO | Dana White: Georges St-Pierre Left With 'Nothing But Animals' For Opponents
Justin Golightly - November 29, 2017
It seems the UFC has sort of backed themselves into a corner. Robert Whittaker fought the guy no one wanted to and beat Yoel Romero fair and square to win the interim UFC middleweight title. Instead of pairing Michael Bisping up with Whittaker to unify, the UFC opted to have Georges St-Pierre swoop down in an illustrious return and he ended up taking that title at UFC 217 in dramatic fashion. However, now St-Pierre’s plans are up in the air and Dana White is absolutely not having it. “[Georges St-Pierre] looked at [Michael] Bisping like he was a tune-up [fight]. You got your tune-up, there’s nothing but f-king animals at 185 and 170. Luke Rockhold is massive, he’s massive when he cuts weight. There’s no good options. To sit there and try to handpick people, or where you want to go and everything else, you can’t in this f-king sport. They’re all nasty. You’re a fighter, get in there and see who you can f-king beat. You wanted to f-king come back, welcome back. I don’t even know if Perth [UFC 221 against Robert Whittaker] is what I want for him yet, so we’re gonna’ talk today and figure it out. I don’t wanna’ hear [about St-Pierre dropping back down to welterweight]. That’s not what I wanna’ hear. I wanna’ hear he’s gonna’ defend the 185-pound title. That’s the agreement we made. That’s the deal we made when we made the deal.” — Dana White during his recent media scrum.
Dana White makes some comparisons between Conor McGregor and Jon Jones after another 'Notorious' rumored incident
Russell Ess - November 28, 2017
According to Dana White, there were plans for Conor McGregor to fight on the last pay-per-view card of the year at UFC 219. However, McGregor’s incident in the Bellator cage that brought a lot of attention to the UFC’s main competitor had him nixed from the event for shoving the referee and slapping a Bellator staff member. Now, rumors are swirling around that “The Notorious” punched a man in a bar in Crumlin, Ireland. Reports have been circulating in Irish media that the man McGregor hit has ties to the mob in Ireland.
Dana White will be 'Super Pissed' if GSP Doesn't Defend Title
Adam Conklin - November 28, 2017
There’s no shortage of contenders in the UFC’s middleweight division. Former champions Luke Rockhold and Chris Weidman are still considered to be at the top of the heap while dangerous contenders such as Kelvin Gastelum and Yoel Romero wait for a signature win to earn the chance to fight for the belt.
Dana White rips Tony Ferguson regarding his demands for Conor McGregor to defend or vacate title
Russell Ess - November 28, 2017
There is no mystery on who UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson wants to fight next in the Octagon. Following his interim title win over Kevin Lee at UFC 216 back in October, “El Cucuy” lashed out at UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in his post-fight Octagon speech. “Where you at McNuggets, ya f**king piece of s**t,” Ferguson screamed into the mic while being interviewed by Joe Rogan. “I’m gonna kick your ass. You better come and f**king defend that belt. Defend or vacate, motherf**ker!”
Dana White Has Been Offering Nate Diaz Fights for a 'Year and a Half'
Justin Golightly - November 28, 2017
We all knew it would be hard to get Nate Diaz back in the Octagon after back-to-back gigantic fights with Conor McGregor, but we had no idea it would be this difficult. Initially, we all thought he’d just be waiting until McGregor came back from his multi-million boxing bout, but that lag time just kept growing larger and larger until nothing. The MMA community’s ears peaked up when there was word of a bonkers fight between Tyron Woodley and Diaz to beef up UFC 219, but that has since been squashed. In a recent interview with Dana White, he not only says that the fight was never offered to begin with, but that Diaz has turned down every single fight he’s been offered for a year and a half. “Nate Diaz has turned down a fight with everyone on the roster. We’ve been offering him fights for a year and a half.” -Dana on Nate
Dana White: "Conor McGregor may never fight again"
Chris Taylor - November 28, 2017
Conor McGregor may never fight again according to UFC President Dana White. “Mystic Mac” has not stepped foot inside the octagon since defeating Eddie Alvarez for the promotions lightweight title at UFC 205 in November of 2016.
Dana White sounds off on 'Literally the biggest piece of s**t in all of sports'
Russell Ess - November 8, 2017
Dana White is working his way to officially stepping into the business of boxing. The UFC President recently explained that he is looking to add boxing promotions in addition to doing the UFC mixed martial arts promotions. White is currently in the process of getting his boxing promoter’s license. Speaking recently with Jim Rome, White responded to boxing promoter Bob Arum and his comments about the UFC getting into boxing because the business of MMA is failing.
VIDEO | Dana White casually mentions how much money Conor McGregor made in Floyd Mayweather fight
Russell Ess - November 8, 2017
UFC superstar Conor McGregor scooped up the biggest payday of his entire career with his professional boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather. Although the UFC lightweight champion came up short and was stopped by the undefeated boxing legend in the 10th round, he still won in terms of pay. “The Notorious” earned a guaranteed $30 million fight purse while “Money” Mayweather got his demands of a guaranteed $100 million fight purse. In addition to their fight purses, a substantial amount of money was made for both fighters from the pay-per-view revenue.
BREAKING | Dana White announces Conor McGregor's next fight will be in Las Vegas
Chris Taylor - November 7, 2017
This just in! UFC President Dana White announced tonight that current UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor’s next fight will take place in Las Vegas. The brash UFC boss gave the following statement to Lance Pugmire of The LA Times.
Dana White explains why 2017 has been the UFC's "best year by a long shot"
Tom Taylor - November 7, 2017
Late last week, UFC President Dana White made the surprising claim that, despite the lack of appearances from its biggest stars, the UFC is having it’s biggest year ever. Unsurprisingly, this claim from White generated some criticism from MMA’s discerning fans, who pointed out that Pay-Per-View sales seem to be down.
VIDEO | Dana White attempts to guess fighter's tattoos
Russell Ess - November 2, 2017
Tattoos are usually an interesting representative of people’s character. Since they are for the most part with you for life, many people take an immense amount of thought into putting the work of art on to their bodies. Here, we take a look at UFC President Dana White getting to see just the tattoos on fighters and trying to identify who they belong to.
Conor McGregor opens up on big Las Vegas business plans
Russell Ess - November 1, 2017
UFC superstar Conor McGregor isn’t only focused on his career in combat sports. With all the money and fame that he has gotten from his career in fighting, it is only opening more doors for opportunities in business for the Dublin native. Speaking recently with entertainment.ie, McGregor spoke of his relationship with Dana White and revealed that he is still seeking the advice of Lorenzo Fertitta in all of his business endeavors.
Bob Arum responds to Dana White's comments about UFC promoting boxing
Tom Taylor - October 26, 2017
Earlier this week, on The Unnamed Podvideocast, UFC President Dana White admitted that he can potentially see the UFC promoting boxing matches in the future. “I could see bringing boxing under our umbrella and trying to see what we could do with that,” White said (h/t Sherdog.com). “I could see doing that.”
Contrary to previous reports, Dana White claims Mayweather-McGregor broke PPV record
Tom Taylor - October 25, 2017
Back in August, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor and undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. stepped through the ropes of the ring to take part in one of the biggest fights in combat sports history. While the fight was widely expected to shatter previously-set records for pay-per-view sales, however, it was ultimately reported to have fallen short, coming up shy of the record set by Mayweather’s 2015 battle with Manny Pacquiao. Contrary to reports that the fight didn’t actually break the record, UFC President Dana White is maintaining that it did.
Dana White: UFC could bring boxing events "under our umbrella"
Tom Taylor - October 25, 2017
There has been some serious intermingling between the sports of mixed martial arts and boxing over the last year. Thats’s thanks in large part to Conor McGregor‘s blockbuster showdown with the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr., but also to the interest of fighters like Stipe Miocic, Jimi Manuwa, Artem Lobov and Cris Cyborg in testing their skills in the boxing ring. From the sounds of it, UFC fighters that are interested in donning heavier gloves and stepping through the ropes might not have to go far to do so. Speaking on The Unnamed Podvideocast, UFC President Dana White suggested that the UFC could one day promote boxing matches.
PHOTO | Dana White lashes out at "p**sies" commenting on Till-Cerrone Instagram post
Tom Taylor - October 22, 2017
Yesterday afternoon, in the main event of the UFC’s exciting debut in the Polish port city of Gdansk, Liverpool native Darren Till picked up the best win of his career thus far, knocking out long-time lightweight and welterweight contender Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in the first round. In the wake of Till’s big win, UFC President Dana White took to Instagram to refer to the rising British welterweight as “the future.”
Dana White says adding weight classes will not solve weight cutting issues
Russell Ess - October 18, 2017
The Association of Boxing Commissions recently approved the introduction of four new weight classes to professional Mixed Martial Arts. A 165 pound super lightweight division, 175 pound super welterweight division, 195 pound super middleweight division, and 225 pound cruiserweight division have been approved for MMA but it is ultimately up the promotions to open these divisions for the fighters to compete in. Issues with fighters missing weight or weight cutting has been a problem and many think that opening more weight divisions for fighters to compete in could ease up some of the weight cutting issues in mixed martial arts. However, UFC President Dana White doesn’t believe that new weight classes are the solution to the problem.
Dana White talks about his ideal timeframe for Conor McGregor's Octagon return
Russell Ess - October 18, 2017
Conor McGregor fans are anxiously waiting for the announcement of the Irishman’s Octagon return. It has been almost one year since we last saw the combat sports superstar fighting in the UFC Octagon. McGregor last fought in the boxing ring in his professional boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather in August where he lost by TKO in the 10th round. After collecting the biggest payday of his career fighting Mayweather, many are expecting to see McGregor fighting back in the Octagon.