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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Yeah. And here comes Strickland. And we could go on for days with this. You know what I mean? That is what creates legendary moments, legendary fights, and it's what builds stars and legends. I mean, arguably Conor McGregor with Jose Aldo. Yep. Conor McGregor with a bunch of people in the beginning. People said he couldn't wrestle. People said he wouldn't be able to defend a takedown.
Blah, blah, blah, blah. Nate Diaz against Conor McGregor. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean?
And if you look at the way that Khabib ran through so many people, Conor hung in there, you know. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, at the time, I was incredibly criticized for putting together the spot that had the scene with the bus in it. Yeah. You know how the fucking media is. But they were saying that I was pandering to the violence that happened. I'm telling you a story.
telling you a story of how we got here and how big this fight is and how bad the blood is between these guys and i mean i think that's what we do the best job at is telling the fucking stories of why i we go into monday it's fight week. We got a whole list of things that we do fight week, right?
And then you get right down to the press conference on Thursday, the weigh-ins on Friday, and then the fights on Saturday. Now my people fly back home, they go to bed on Sunday night, and it's Groundhog Day. We wake up again on Monday and it starts all over again. Every weekend, every Saturday for a year. So there's lots of stories that need to be told. There's lots of
When you think about what I compete with, whatever takes your attention on a Saturday night is my competitor.
That's it. That's exactly right. So when we are online, like when you get to the UFC, I mean, you just saw it with MVP. You're going to see it with Kayla Harrison and so many others that have come from other organizations and they get here. they notice immediately the difference between fighting here and fighting wherever they were before.
It's not even comparable to the impact it has on you when you leave whatever organization you're with and you come to the UFC. And I think that it gives them a sense of, holy shit, I can really, I mean, MVP when he came, I mean, there were probably more people at the press conference than any fight he'd ever fought in Bellator. You know what I mean?
And you feel that energy and you feel the difference of the impact of being here. And I think it takes a lot of these guys to another level.
She was walking around with this sleeveless shirt the night of the fights, and holy shit.
So true. Especially in judo.
He's never been beat. He destroyed everybody at light heavyweight, which at the time was the toughest weight class in the company, in the sport. And then I moved up to heavyweight, won easily at heavyweight. And when you look at a guy And you look at what he was doing outside the octagon at the same time, which shouldn't be part of it, shouldn't be part of the equation. But when you do, wow.
John Jones, there's no debate. Nobody can debate who's the greatest of all time. It's absolutely positively John Jones. He's never lost. He's never been beaten in the octagon ever.
I don't disagree. But when you've never lost, right? You've never lost. We've never found somebody And the other thing is that you have to factor in too is longevity. How long he's – because sometimes with a lot of these guys, the sport passes them by. You get younger guys that are faster, this, that, and the sport evolves. Nobody's been able to beat Jon Jones.
Oh, and the other thing that you measure is when you said dominance – It's true. If you're this guy that has unbelievable power and you're just going in, you're just fucking knocking everybody out. And nobody's ever pulled you into the deep water before. That was when my opinion of John Jones started to change. Gustafson took him into the deep water.
Gustafson hit him with some shit he'd never been hit with. Gustafson tested him and put John Jones in a place where I bet if you sat down and interviewed John Jones, going into the deep rounds of that, John Jones thought he was going to die. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying? And he's willing to go there. And he kept going. He was willing to do whatever it took to win that fight.
And it breaks my heart because he beat DC and DC is one of the greatest of all time. That's the thing too. And I believe that DC doesn't get the credit he deserves because of the Jon Jones thing. When you look at DC and what he's accomplished, right? And Jon Jones beat him twice. It's undeniable. You can hate all you want. Jon Jones was the greatest of all time.
Do you think Habib was tested enough? I think that Habib had the potential to be in the running for that. He just didn't stick around a lot. First of all, he had injuries that, you know, he should have been where he got a lot sooner had he not had the injuries that he had and the setbacks in his career. But there's no doubt Habib is one of the all-time greats.
What's the good, the bad, and the ugly of your relationship with Conor? there's literally no ugly. Conor McGregor has been an incredible partner to work with. Everybody thinks that Conor, if Conor showed up to things on time, there wouldn't be one fucking bad thing I could say about Conor. You know what I mean?
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