Dana White, King of MMA
An unauthorized biography
By:
June White
Copyright 2011 by June White
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“When this thing is a sport, all over the entire world, and you can take the UFC to any city in any country, just like soccer, then I did it. I did what I set out to do. That’s why I was put on this planet. That’s my job, my destiny, whatever the (expletive) you want to call it.”
-- Yahoo Sports, July 8, 2009.
"It's not who you are, but what you do that defines you."
-- from the movie Batman
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual."
-- Teddy Roosevelt
Table of Contents
Birth Certificate from Hospital
Pictures: Family at Dana’s grandmother’s house & Hampton Beach
Picture: Altar Boy, Pretending to be KISS, Sailing with uncle & sister
Picture: Dana 2 yrs old
Picture: Dana 4 yrs. Old Hampton Beach
Pictures: Dana with his son at Hampton Beach
Pictures: Dana & son at arcade at Hampton Beach
Picture: Dana 3rd birthday party
Picture: Altar boy at sister’s 1st. communion
Pictures: Kindergarten picture
Picture: Dana & two sons at his in-laws house
Letter
Picture: Dana & his two best friends in high school
Picture: Dana in his Don Johnson days
Picture: Dana & Brenda in Ireland
Picture: Dana at friend’s pub in Ireland
Picture: Dana dancing with sister at her graduation from college party
Picture: St. Patty’s Day parade
Picture: Dana running in race
Picture: Dana with his uncles at party
Picture: Dana and Mom
Picture: Dana & grooms men
Picture: Dana & wife at wedding
Picture: Dana & wife honeymoon
Picture: Dana & son
Picture: Dana & sons at wedding
Dana and the fighters
Introduction
Very few people can take a company on the brink of bankruptcy and turn it into a multibillion-dollar international business in eight short years. What type of person is able to accomplish this feat while keeping the competition from even coming close to taking any part of the market from them?
First, if you know that the initials MMA stand for mixed martial arts, you also know that the UFC is the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the biggest promoter of mixed martial arts in the world. If you know all of that, then you certainly would recognize the name Dana White, King of MMA and President and part owner of the UFC. Dana White was named Promoter of the Year from 2005 to 2008 and Nevada Sportsman of the year in 2009; and in 2010, he was invited to speak at Oxford University, the same place where President Reagan, Mother Teresa, and the Dali Lama have been invited guest speakers.
There are few if any in the world who can claim the titles of President and King. Although Dana can claim both titles, dictator could be another of those titles. Everywhere Dana goes in the world — and the UFC is seen in more than 170 countries and territories — his fans and the fans of MMA treat him like a rock star.
In an article titled “White Makes Hub-Bub” in the Boston Herald (August 9, 2009), “White said, ‘I’m serious…it doesn’t make a difference to me, (but) it’s going to happen. And it’s going to happen everywhere else all around the world. There’s no stopping it.” Also high on White’s list is holding an event in Mexico. White said the UFC secured a television deal for over-the-air broadcasts in Mexico and noted that the initial results, for the broadcast of UFC 100, were an estimated 25 million Mexican viewers tuning in.” This is what Dana’s fans love him for, the fact that he has taken the sport of MMA to where it is today, and for Dana, there is no end in sight for the expansion of the UFC and MMA.