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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Forrest dealt with fame really well and Stefan did not.
It was everything.
Well, what happened that night is the rest of the show was a disaster. Mm-hmm. Um, you know, we had the co-main event and the main event, uh, Diego Sanchez ran through Kenny Florian in seconds. Um, oh my God, that was, that was terrible. And the fights that led up to that weren't anything to talk about either.
Then Stephan and Boris got in there and just went toe to toe in this unbelievable slug fest live on free television when cable still mattered. And what I heard was at the time, um, You know, you had people picking up the phone going, are you watching this show? The numbers just started climbing. Then you got a razor thin decision. Who's going to win? You got the crowd stomping their feet.
It sounded like a train was going through the place and everybody's chanting one more round. Me and the Fertitta brothers get together and we talk. We're going to give them both contracts. So we give them both contracts and the place erupts. It just, it couldn't have been a more perfect fight at the most perfect time. And it just, it all came together. It's almost like, this was meant to be.
You know what I mean? So we had so many problems with Spike TV at the time, right? Because halfway through the season, the president of the company got fired. all the things that we thought we were going to get that year, you know, we, we, we had this runaway hit show. And normally at that time, when you would see runaway hit shows, there'd be commercials. It'd be on, be on billboards.
It'd be on the side of buses in LA and New York. And we got none of that. Right. We didn't even know if we were going to get a, you know, a second season coming out of that. Right. And we, When that fight was over, I swear to God, I was like, I don't even give a fuck. We're going to end up somewhere now after this fight. And we didn't even make it out of the building that night.
The Spike guys did the contract with us in the alley on a fucking napkin after the fight.
Once that happened- and all the shit. And at that time, I didn't know what the ratings, not like we were streaming and we could see what we were, we had no idea, but I knew.
And when you think about what was at stake, there was a car. Remember the Kia? Yeah. The winner got a Kia, right? That's what was the fucking, right? And Stefan and Forrest, Yeah. The will to win. They both wanted to win that fight so bad. It was bigger than the Kia probably. You know, Forrest drove that Kia to like 200,000 miles. Yeah.
The biggest mistake Kia ever made was not doing a fucking commercial with Forrest Griffin about that car. Forrest Griffin loved that car so much he drove it. I think he still has it. It's got like 200,000 miles on it, that car. I mean, you couldn't have a better fucking commercial than that. And we reached out to him too. I said, Kia should know about this. Yeah. They fucking blew it.
You got a bunch of... You know how those guys are in the business world. They don't fucking get anything. Maybe it was about the Kia then. It was about winning. They both wanted to win the Ultimate Fighter so bad. It's the Kia. It's the win. It's the... The contract you get, the whole thing.
They're both bad dudes. They were both real fighters at the end of the day. That's why the fight was so great.
We all know when that moment happens in a fight, when you see that both of these guys are fucking exhausted. And for people that are watching this,
people that don't know a lot of everybody thinks they know a lot about fighting 99.9 of the people out there don't know fucking jack shit about fighting or what it takes to do what these people do but when you get into those later rounds and fatigue sets in and and then fatigue makes you start to fucking doubt yourself and and and then you start to wonder can i even make it through the rest of this round and then you start to think am i gonna fucking die right now
And these kids dig fucking deep. And they just, like you said, all the other shit flies out the window. And now they're just on fucking autopilot to fight and win. Those are definitely the best fights you'll ever see in any combat sport.
When you think about these fights that you see in the UFC every fucking Saturday, when these, these men and women get to this point where they're, they've been in a dog fight yet, they keep fucking going and you keep trying to win. You can't imagine fucking,
what's going on inside their heads, you know, self-doubt and all these other things that come into play when exhaustion sets in and they fucking power through it.
So true. It's so true, and it happens every fucking weekend. It's so impressive. I say it all the time. The people that are involved in this sport, are this much of the population. The people that make it to the top five are incredibly unique special human beings, man. It's fucking awesome. You love gambling.
Well, two things. I won a million dollar hand It's happened one time. A million-dollar hand one night at Mandalay Bay. And then one summer, I beat Caesars for $12 million throughout the summer. Throughout the summer. Yeah. And then I'm on a pretty good run right now, too. This is Blackjack. Yeah.
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