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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And everybody told me not to do it. Do not do this. But I was like, why would I not do this? This guy's been great to me, you know, and I did it. And our relationship is just like, you know what I mean? I consider Donald Trump to be one of my very, very good friends. Any favorite stories? I mean, there's so many stories. I mean, one... Once he won the election, I'd be at work.
And I'd be down the hall, was in the matchmaking room, whatever. And my secretary would tell, the president's on the phone. Fucking come running down the hallway and grab the phone. And he'd want to talk about the fight that was coming up or the fight that happened. Or I'd be in my car and I'd answer the phone. It's like, hi, this is the White House.
We have the president of the United States on the phone. You know, that's a trip when that first starts happening. And then just... To sum him up, this is the kind of guy that, you want to talk about a fighter? This is the most resilient human being I've ever met.
If you see the shit that this guy's going through publicly every day, and I'll call him on the phone as a friend and be like, hey, you good? How you doing? Unfazed.
unfazed like nothing's going on and he'll start talking to me about this and that and all this other shit one time there's only been one time i've never talked about this publicly but one time i called him and he was not good he was a mess and i've never heard him like that and i've never seen him like that when uh ivana died the only time i've ever seen him fucked up
Obviously, as soon as I heard it, I reached out and I have never, look at all the stuff that's gone on with Trump, all the bad stuff that they say, they're trying to attack him, they're trying to ruin him, unfazed. I called him that day and he was, that's the first time I've ever seen that guy busted up and not good.
He will walk through fire. He's an absolute savage. You think he wins the presidential election? I don't know, man. It's going to depend on how this whole...
politics is the most dirtiest scummiest thing on planet earth man and and who knows how this is all going to play out it's it's all dirty it's all ugly and you know obviously i'm rooting for him and and i'm behind him and and i hope he does um but we'll see what's dirtier the uh the fighting game in the early days or politics There's nothing dirtier than politics. Nothing.
There's literally nothing dirtier. All right. It is the dirtiest thing on planet Earth. I just wanted to get that on record.
It would have been the biggest fight ever done. The spectacle of it. Two. of the most powerful, wealthiest men in the world, right? Lots of guys talk shit and go back and forth and sue each other and do all this. These two guys were literally talking about facing each other in the octagon and fighting. There's nothing. And they're in a business that's looked at as geeky. You know what I mean?
They're tech nerds. They're this, they're that. These are two dudes that were willing to throw down and fight. And you know as well as I do. There's a lot of public speculation about this. I was taking serious real time and working on this thing. I mean, I had projections. I had numbers. I was looking at venues. I was on the phone with the fucking Coliseum in Italy. You name it. I was in it.
These guys were serious. And this was something that was really going to happen. And I'll tell you right now, in the short amount of time that it was going down, it was fun. I was having a blast with it.
I love Mike Tyson, and I'm not a fan of anybody fighting at our age. But he's a grown man, obviously, and he's going to do what he's going to do. But at least I know. I talked to his wife a couple days ago. And he's taking this serious, and he's training for it. And, you know, so we'll see how it plays out.
I think that Mike Tyson is actually one of those unique guys who has crossed over any of these other boxers from his era. They have no way of making money other than fighting. Mike Tyson has made a lot of money outside of fighting. I mean, Tyson still has that aura. You could be at a restaurant. And he walks in and you're like, holy fuck, Mike Tyson's here.
You know, he still has that type of aura and energy in a room. And he makes lots of money outside of the ring. I just, I think that he ends up getting these offers that he can't refuse. Oh, you think it's financial?
Well, the guys that get into it for the right reason are the guys who get into it for greatness. Because you want to be the fucking best, right? And when you're in it for that reason... You love it and you want to be looked at as the best ever, and you have the talent, the money happens. Then you have other guys who get in.
Believe me, I've dealt with fighters who just wanted to be famous and just wanted to make money. You know what I mean? Listen, it is what it is. It's your... It's your life and you live it the way that you want and do your thing. But the ones that are beloved are the guys who really want to be fucking great. And they're the ones that are remembered.
And I mean, when you look at Tyson in his early years, when he came up under Costi Amato, I mean, he was a student of the game. He loved everything. He became...
completely infatuated with the fight game then he became such a massive superstar it's almost like the whole thing starts to turn on you you know all the things that come at you at a young age and that kind of money and it's it's tough it's tough to navigate and get through and you know you you say something like that people like oh poor him he had fucking 100 million dollars and couldn't yeah
At that age and with all the shit that people talk and all the things that you got to put up with and the fame, a lot of people deal with fame. Some people handle it really well and some people don't. And the perfect example of that was Forrest Griffin and Stefan Bonner. They fought that unbelievable fight on The Ultimate Fighter. Everything blew up after that.
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