Dana White News

bjpenndotcom - August 17, 2016

During the UFC 202 pre-fight press conference Wednesday afternoon, UFC President Dana White appeared in front of media members along with several fighters that will fight on this Saturday’s UFC 202 card. One of the first questions that was asked was in regards to the reports of the formation of a fighter’s union this month after Mark Hunt called for fighters to unionize following the news of Brock Lesnar failing 2 drug tests surrounding his UFC 200 fight with Hunt.

Chris Taylor - August 17, 2016

UFC president Dana White was a recent guest on “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” where he discussed his goal of making the Ultimate Fighting Championship the biggest sport in the world. White went on to say that the announcements which the promotion will be making over the next three months are so awesome that they will “blow everybody’s minds”. Check it out:

Chris Taylor - August 16, 2016

https://youtu.be/TmW8TW4EYTg Tuesday afternoon UFC President Dana White shocked the MMA community as he gave a major update in regards to Jon Jones’ failed drug test case with the US Anti-Doping Agency.

Chris Taylor - August 13, 2016

Earlier this week, UFC president Dana White stated that current UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor would be returning to 145-pounds for his next fight, this after he squares off with Nate Diaz at UFC 202 next weekend. With that said, Conor would be returning to featherweight to have a title unification bout with current interim champion Jose Aldo, who McGregor defeated via first-round KO at UFC 194 in just 13 seconds.

bjpenndotcom - July 30, 2016

Prior to UFC 201 Saturday evening, UFC President Dana White posted a photo on Instagram with ‘Pasha Biceps’. However, it was White’s biceps that drew the attention of fans. White is looking absolutely shredded in the photo, which you can see below!

Russell Ess - July 29, 2016

https://youtu.be/eG60rkF26qc UFC President Dana White was a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and talked about some of the recent happenings surrounding him and the always entertaining Kimmel presented White with some interesting questions.

Russell Ess - July 29, 2016

With the UFC recently being sold by Zuffa to WME-IMG for $4 billion, UFC President Dana White made somewhere near $360,000,000 with owning 9 percent of the company.

Russell Ess - July 28, 2016

UFC President Dana White has done tremendous things for the sport of mixed martial arts.

bjpenndotcom - July 21, 2016

In the wake of the UFC being sold for $4 billion, Top Rank Boxing CEO Bob Arum decided to take the opportunity to criticize the UFC and it’s fighters for a string of failed drug tests. Prior to the event, Jon Jones was pulled from the card for a potential USADA anti-doping violation, and after the event it was announced that Brock Lesnar failed a pre-fight drug test in June, as well as a fight night drug test the night of UFC 200. Arum also went as far as to accuse the UFC brass of being corrupt.

bjpenndotcom - July 19, 2016

https://youtu.be/xhpd_EcCz78 At the Republican National Convention Tuesday evening, where Donald Trump became the Republican Party nominee, UFC President Dana White gave an emphatic speech supporting his longtime friend.

Russell Ess - July 14, 2016

UFC President Dana White is reportedly set to speak at Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention on night two, according to the New York Times. According to the report, the list of speakers was “confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of the convention planning.”

bjpenndotcom - July 14, 2016

Leading up to UFC 200, UFC President Dana White was busy enough. In addition to making sure things were running smoothly ahead of the biggest night in UFC history, White was busy finding a replacement opponent for Daniel Cormier after Jon Jones was pulled from the event for a potential USADA anti-doping violation with just 2 days to go until fight night.

Russell Ess - July 12, 2016

UFC President Dana White is looking to make a lot of money with his new pay structure that was recently reported by ESPN. White, who owned 9% of the UFC is estimated to be getting around $360 million dollars in the $4 billion purchase of the UFC by WME-IMG.

bjpenndotcom - July 12, 2016

In the wake of the biggest event in the history of the UFC this past weekend at UFC 200, it was announced that the UFC had been sold to WME-IMG for $4 billion. Understandably so, the MMA community went wild reacting to the news of the promotions sale. In the wake of the news, UFC founder Rorion Gracie spoke to MMAFighting to give his thoughts on the UFC’s sale:

Russell Ess - July 12, 2016

UFC President Dana White will no longer have his good friend and partner Lorenzo Fertitta by his side while working on anything UFC for much longer. With WME | IMG’s $4 billion purchase of the UFC from Zuffa, Fertitta will be stepping down as CEO and White will continue working as the UFC President and says that he was just given a much bigger workload with Lorenzo out of the picture.

Chris Taylor - July 10, 2016

UFC President Dana White discusses all of this weekend’s UFC fights.

Russell Ess - July 7, 2016

Late Wednesday, the UFC arranged a short-notice press conference to announce that UFC interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was pulled from the main event against champion Daniel Cormier due to a “potential anti-doping violation.”

bjpenndotcom - July 6, 2016

With just days to go until his UFC 200 headlining bout against Daniel Cormier, Jon Jones was notified of a potential anti-doping violation, and was subsequently pulled from the fight. UFC President Dana white was quick to reveal that the fight was off, and Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Hunt was now the main event for the historic card. Despite that however, Daniel Cormier stated that he would be willing to go up to 225 pounds for a short-notice fight.