Dana White
speaker
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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If you fucking said, put a gun to my fucking head, right? And said, don't lie, motherfucker. Tell me all the bad things about Conor McGregor. I'd say the guy doesn't show up on time. That's it. That's it. If Conor McGregor showed up to shit on time, and sometimes he does, sometimes he does. He's been a great partner.
If you look at what a huge superstar he became, the fights that he was involved in. Let me tell you what Conor McGregor never did. We never walked in a room and said, Conor, this guy just fell out. We want you to fight this guy. And he was like, no way. I'm not taking this fucking risk. I'm at this point in my career where my money, my this, my that. He was like... Fook it. Let's do it.
He'd always say, let's do it. The other thing that Conor McGregor never did, no matter how big he was or whatever it was, when we were heading into a fight, oh, Conor, this guy just fell out. Aldo fell out. We were looking for another. Yeah, I'll do it, but I'm going to need another fucking $200,000. I'm going to need another million dollars. Conor McGregor never did that kind of chicken shit.
you know, bullshit kind of stuff. He never did any of that. Connor was as solid a guy as you could possibly work with.
I'll do it. Literally would. There's actually a scene because we were filming something. I don't know if it was embedded or what we were filming at the time. Me and Lorenzo walk into his house that he rented here in Vegas. And I'm pretty sure it was when Aldo fell out and we're telling him this, that, and we're looking at some options. He says, I'm going to the gym.
When I'm done working out, let me know. He just woke up out of bed. He's in his fucking underwear. And he gets hit with this. And he's like, all right, I'm going to the gym. Let me know when I get out who I'm fighting. Doesn't care. Doesn't want to know. Doesn't want any more money. Nothing. Fucking shows up and he delivers. Yeah. So, you know, Connor has been incredibly successful.
He's made a lot of money. And, you know, he's had his ups and downs outside and inside the octagon. But as for a guy who was, you know, on the dole and was a plumber, he's actually a really smart businessman. And he's been one of the best partners that I've ever had in the history of the sport.
He literally set Europe, Australia, Canada, and many other parts of the world on fire, man. He was our first legit megastar.
But it comes with success. When you're successful, there's always people out there that are going to talk shit. You always have a bunch of know-nothing, do-nothing fucking losers that love to talk shit. You think if you were to do it all over again, Habib is the right matchup? Yeah. Listen, the thing that you can't do is avoid matchups. You know what I mean? This is what we're talking about.
When you talk about being a legend, Conor McGregor needed Habib.
habib needed conor mcgregor it's you can hate each other as much as you want but you have to fight these other legendary bad motherfuckers to to yourself become a legend i mean it's like john jones needed cyril gone right and cyril gone needed john jones because if cyril could have beat john the first guy if anybody can ever figure it out and beat john jones it's a big deal and it's almost like your obligation
As a fighter, right? And when you think about John Jones became who he is today, and the reason I'm sitting here telling you how great he is, because all these other guys gave him the opportunity to beat them, right? Or they beat John. It's all about... giving these other guys the opportunity. St. Denis, right? Poirier gave him the opportunity to come in and beat him. That's how this all works.
It's the two of them together, the two fighters together. You have to have them both. Listen, I could line up a bunch of no-name bums that Jon Jones could run through. That's what they do in all the other organizations, right? Yeah. We would have nothing to fucking talk about right now.
So true. But when you have a perfect record in the UFC, holy shit. Right? Yeah. When you can have a perfect record in the UFC, you are absolutely one of the most special athletes on planet Earth. Yeah.
And the kids are training, yeah. Her father's the biggest fucking fight fan on the planet. Calls me all the time to talk about the fights and... Don Jr. said that I'm like the only guy on earth that he bros out with. It's funny when you talk about how powerful fighting is, right? This last Miami event, the president of Ecuador and the president of Spain both posted about the fights, right?
Habib beat Conor. Putin was on FaceTime before he even made it to the locker room. Trump... Sitting president, ex-president, watching all the fights, calling once to talk about the fights. Valentina Shevchenko, every time she goes home, she meets with the president of the country. The list goes on and on and on. The most powerful, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg. I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
The most powerful people in the world are all obsessed with fighting. When did you first discover that Trump loves fighting? So I first discovered... that Trump was a big fight fan. Obviously you saw him part of all the big, you're talking about how big boxing fans we were. He was a part of all the big fights back then. But, um, when we first bought the UFC, this thing was so bad.
Venues didn't even want us. And we ended up doing, uh, you know, our first event in Atlantic city at the Trump Taj Mahal. Now think about this at that time, Trump brand here, UFC brand. I mean, I can't go low enough. And, uh, he had us at his venue two times back to back, showed up for the first fight of the night and stayed till the last fight of the night. Then after that,
Any good thing that would ever happen to me in my career, Trump would reach out, whether it was we were on the front page of the New York Times at one time, and he said, congratulations, Dana. I always knew you guys were going to do it. Little things like that, but that are big things and mean a lot, especially coming from a guy like him.
So he saw something in you, like this is going to be... 100%. He definitely saw it. And then comes... 15, 16, whenever it was, I don't remember. But he called me and he said, listen, if you don't want to do this, I completely understand. But I would be honored if you would speak at the National Republican Convention for me. And I'm not a very political guy, you know what I mean?
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