Feelings on Dana White.

I just hate his swearing and his immature attitude, at least he gives us fights and makes the best fighters fight one another........which isn't happening in Boxing.

 

He's the reason why MMA has become one of the most popular sports in America. He can swear all he wants and be a dick head, he's a brilliant businessman and literally carries the weight of the sport on his back in the USA. What any of us posting on some internet forum think of him is of little concern to anything.

 

If he wasn't a millionaire MMA president, would I hang out with him? Hell no. I can't stand his personality. But he got the job done for the UFC. Still, I think his business tactics are crude and aren't built for the long term. He's the kind of guy that jumpstarts a business and provides all sorts of energy to get it off the ground. But he is also the kind that burns out rather fast. His persona gets stale. White is good for the UFC now, but I think in 5-10 years, they're going to wish they had someone else at the helm.

 

To be honest i think Dana is everything that is bad about martial arts.His not a martial arts fan and doesnt have the pedigree.The repsect over in PRIDE was incredible in comparison between the fighters and the big guns that were running the show like Takada and Sakakibara.The UFC leaves a very stale taste in my mouth as TUF is nothing more than the usual car crash reality TV that doesnt produce much "REAL" talent in MMA and has been way overextended in its practical usefulness for the sport.If Dana wants a breeding ground for fighters why not do it properly like OVW does in wrestling? To have one man running the show and one man calling all the big shots is always a bad thing.And il always stand by what iv always said, UFC`s aquistion of PRIDE will be the demise of MMA.MMA doesnt need uneducated fans and it doesnt need the rabble and meatheads that routinely turn up for there cup of blood.Thats not what martial arts is about.

 

And yet, your original post all you talked about was how you find his persona distateful. You never mentioned the business model of the UFC and how it all fits together.

If you are fine with how he runs his business, why do you care about how he acts. Another thing that people do, is that they put way too much praise on Dana White. The Fertitta brothers are the sheriffs in town, we need to realize that. They built a billion dollar casion empire with a few thousand bucks. They recognize what Dana is and know his shortfalls, and when the time comes to move on to a more long term stable business startegy and not a growth plan, they will make the necessary changes and see Dana on his way as a rich man.

 

And Pride did the same thing with Japanese. Boxing promoters protect and nurture young talent against 20 some **** cans before they go big. It's just a part of promoting.

 

We weren't knee deep in the Japanses mainstream, so it just seems that way. Both Takada and Sakikibara were knee deep in organized crime, and almost weekly were embroiled in yakuza scandals on the evening news in Japan. The guy who's job Sakikibara took commited suicide just minutes after Sakikibara met him in a hotel room under strange circumstances. While they loved the sport, they certainly weren't the types you want managing it. They paid the price by running Pride into the ground when the scandals caught up to their lies and they lost the support of all their sponsors.

 

Exactly :good

 

I actually quite like the guy.

 

Takada was a pro wrestler who participated in worked matches against legends in the sport who happened to be down on there luck at the time (Mark Coleman) or who were just being introduced to the sport (CroCop) so spare me the revisionist history of Takada being some honorable benevolent leader. To say that Dana isn't a fan is absurd, why do you think he made the switch from boxing?

 

i think Dana White is the anti-christ, the Don King of MMA.