Dana White
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1,304 appearances
17 recordings
16 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 17 Jun
Dana White’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's funny that I'm having this conversation with you right now because last night, I was out last night with my friends and we were talking about, because one of my buddies who's a host here in town just did jujitsu for the first time. Nice. Yesterday. Yeah. And he was like. Did he get his ass kicked? Yeah, yeah. But when you first go in. Yeah.
Our first jujitsu lesson, me, Lorenzo, and Frank was with John Lewis. Nice. And I remember thinking, holy shit. I can't believe that I'm, you know, 28 years old, and this is the first time I'm experiencing this, that another human being could do this to me on the ground.
It is such an eye-opening, mind-blowing experience when you do it for the first time, and then you become completely addicted to it. And, you know, we were training three, four days a week, trying to kill each other, and me and the Fertittas, and... That's how we fell in love with the sport. I think that the first time that you do jiu-jitsu, it's like the red pill and the blue pill in the matrix.
Do you want to believe that this is the world that you live in or do you want to see what the real world looks like? Jiu-jitsu is a real red pill.
And I mean dominate. I mean completely treat you like you're a little kid. And then we had the opportunity to roll with a lot of different guys at the time because of the whatever. And we don't have a good relationship at all. But I'll tell you this. Frank Shamrock came in one day. And Frank Shamrock had me in side control. The pressure that this guy put on my chest... made me tap.
Felt like there was a car on my chest. And with zero effort from him. It was absolutely effortless. And when you train with somebody that's at such a level when you're not, it is the most humbling, mind-blowing experience you can have, especially as a man, but as a human being. Do you remember, just for fun, do you remember what your go-to submission was? Yeah.
So, you know, when we first started out and started doing it, I had a pretty good guillotine in the beginning. So I'd catch a lot of people in guillotines. So you're okay being on like on bottom? Yeah, I was okay with the bottom. Yeah, I was okay with being on bottom. I was comfortable there. But you know what I never liked? I never liked gi. We started fucking around with a gi in the beginning.
That's how we started. And then once I took the gi off, I felt like I had no submissions because I couldn't grab onto anything. So after that, I went all no gi, and I never wanted to wear a gi.
Right.
Or street. Street, yeah. Right? I mean, if you start off in your first year, you're in a Gi. You better hope a guy's got winter jackets on or something if something happens in the street. In my opinion, I know all the jiu-jitsu fucking people are going to go crazy over this, but in my opinion, no gi is way better than gi.
And the fact that you had... Like these guys like Ken Shamrock that were jacked, right? And you had all these wrestlers or, you know, the big massive guys that they had in the different weight classes. And this skinny little dude like Hoist was out there beating everybody.
I mean, if you look at the way the Gracies played that, you couldn't have had a better advertisement for Gracie Jiu-Jitsu at the time. But also, like...
What's the real beautiful thing about jiu-jitsu? It's like when you talk about, if you wanted to get your daughter into a martial art, should I put my daughter into karate or should I put her into this? You put your daughter into jujitsu 100% because it's not about size or strength. It's about technique. And you give your daughter a bunch of jujitsu and a little bit of Muay Thai.
Yeah, she becomes dangerous. It's like the perfect combo. Yeah. Cause you can put your son into anything. Your son can get into some, you know, boys are going to learn how to fight and they're going to do whatever, but girls are, girls are different. And the other thing, I mean, this is the biggest selling point for jujitsu for women.
I mean, when a woman, no matter how big, how small can put a guy to sleep in three and a half seconds.
It started with John Lewis and seeing him. Frank and I were out one night at the Hard Rock and John Lewis was there. And he's like, oh, that's that ultimate fighting guy. And I was like, I know him. And Frank's like, I've always wanted to learn ground fighting. And I said, yeah, I'm interested in it too.
So we went over, we talked to John Lewis and we made an appointment to wrestle with him on Monday.
And we told Lorenzo and Lorenzo came with us. And that was the beginning of the end. I mean, we started doing jujitsu and started to meet a lot of the fighters. And we were like, you know, at the time, there was a stigma attached to the sport that these guys were, you know, despicable, disgusting human beings, which was the furthest thing from the truth.
These kids had all gone to college, had college degrees, most of them, because they wrestled in college. And we started to meet some of them. We loved the different stories. You had Chuck Liddell, who, you know, had this Mohawk, looks like an axe murderer, but graduated from Cal Poly, you know.
with honors and accounting you know yeah then you had matt hughes who was this farm boy you know literally lived on a farm and so there were all these cool stories with all these good people that weren't what people thought they were and lorenzo and i always felt like there's something here that if this thing was done the right way this could be big and what was crazy was
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