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0:00Dana White on the Spin and Backfist MMA
0:02show. Thank you for coming in. You're
0:03here for Fanatics Fest, right? Yes, sir.
0:04What are you doing? Are you doing like
0:05autograph signings and stuff?
0:07>> No. God, no. Uh I I'm I'm I'm [laughter]
0:09actually doing press conference. I'm
0:10doing press conference and uh we you
0:12know, we have the octagon set up over
0:14there. Uh we have booths. We have um uh
0:18and my son my son actually
0:21uh created a manga. He got an artist in
0:25Japan, created a manga, got a deal with
0:27Darkhorse Comics. Oh my god.
0:29>> And and it drops uh it drops uh I think
0:32next year, but he's going to be at
0:34Comic-Con.
0:34>> I got to get him on my nerd podcast.
0:36Talk about it.
0:37>> Love it. Love it. And and uh so he's
0:39he's uh promoting his thing over there,
0:41too.
0:42>> Um yeah, we got a lot of stuff going on
0:45over there.
0:45>> So I don't want to I don't want to bring
0:46up something bad right away, but
0:48>> Oh, here we go.
0:49>> I I just really really laughed at your
0:51press conference on Saturday night when
0:52you were trashing the UFC production and
0:54you said, "We are the worst at
0:56celebrities in the world." Well, let me
0:58ask you a question. You are a hardcore
1:01UFC guy. You cover the sport.
1:03>> Yeah.
1:04>> Has there ever been a time that you've
1:06said, "Jesus Christ, these guys are bad
1:08at this." Like, first of all, we will
1:11we'll go on a guy, right? You're at the
1:12fights. Now, let me explain to you. If
1:14you have any ounce of celebrity, right?
1:16And and I speak for all celebrities when
1:19I say this because I know it to be a
1:20fact. When you go to an event, you just
1:24want to go be a fan and you just want to
1:25chill out and then and then somebody's
1:27like, "Hey, can we throw a [ __ ]
1:28camera in your face and you know, you do
1:32it." So, you're there and you're like,
1:33"Hey, here's [ __ ] Robbie Fox." And
1:35you're like, "Hey, [ __ ] how you
1:36doing?" Right. Yeah. And then, uh,
1:40>> we hold it there for like this awkward
1:4315 seconds where it's just it's too long
1:46>> and it never feels right to me. And
1:49>> I was on with Dave. We thought we were
1:50getting booed. We were like, I think
1:51they're booing us. [laughter]
1:54>> That's funny. [clears throat]
1:56But yeah, it's it's just
1:58>> And then the name mixup, the Shakur
2:00Stevenson name mixup was bad.
2:01>> Twice now. Twice.
2:02>> Yeah. The last one was Terence Crawford,
2:03right? Yeah.
2:04>> So, I'm curious. You make that call
2:07during the broadcast or you wait till
2:09after the show's over.
2:10>> Screaming.
2:10>> Yeah. Screaming. And And are you able
2:12during the broadcast?
2:13>> Are you able to enjoy the rest of the
2:14broadcast or is that in your mind? Like,
2:16are you able to enjoy the rest of the
2:18night or in the back of your mind the
2:19whole time? Are you just like,
2:20>> "No." Yeah, I I I let it go. Poor You
2:22know who David Ellison is? Yeah. So, his
2:25poor wife is like the sweetest lady ever
2:27and she's sitting next to me during that
2:30psycho phone call that I made to the
2:32truck. Uh but
2:36yeah, and then after I went crazy on
2:38everybody and you know
2:40>> they know I mean it's not like they
2:42don't know that
2:43>> um you know I spend this money on Shakur
2:46Stevenson sign him bring him out to
2:47>> lot of money
2:48>> to to promote him and all this [ __ ]
2:50>> and and we throw him up as an OKC
2:52basketball player. [laughter] It's like
2:55come on man give me a break. And on on
2:58the same broadcast, we had some
2:59celebrity involvement from Sophie
3:00Cunningham going to basketball where she
3:03was a special guest octagon girl. I've
3:05never seen that on a UFC broadcast ever.
3:07>> Which that's not really. So what
3:09happened is listen, if there's anything
3:11about me that you that that that you've
3:13noticed over the years is that when
3:14something organically pops up, I lean
3:17right into it. So, she I first of all, I
3:20love Sophie and and her and I have have
3:22have created a relationship and become
3:24friends. And
3:27she uh I guess she walked in and you
3:29know Amber that works for me that Yeah.
3:31So Amber comes over to me and she's
3:33like, "I just had Sophie Cunningham uh
3:35and she goes so funny. She she she
3:37walked in. She goes, "Oh, I want to walk
3:39around there."
3:40>> And I go, "Oh, she's going to walk
3:42around there." So I walked over to her
3:44and I said, "I'm going to have you walk
3:45around." She started laughing. She goes,
3:47"I'll do it. I'll do it. So, we threw up
3:49there and she, you know, the thing is
3:50about a Sophie Cunningham is that she
3:52has
3:54>> the personality and the charisma
3:57>> to do something like that and make it
3:58fun. And I knew that, you know, as soon
4:01as Amber said it to me and she did, she
4:03killed it.
4:04>> We were doing a live stream of the
4:05fights. We were watching the fights
4:06live, talking about it, doing a watch
4:07along and we s we were like, "Is that
4:10Sophie Cunningham?" The name comes up.
4:11We're like, "I guess Sophie Cunning." It
4:12was like cuz the Patty fight's starting.
4:14They're in the cage like where you know
4:15the emotions are already here and you're
4:16like wait a minute what the hell is
4:17that? Is that Sophie Cunningham?
4:18>> You're so right.
4:19>> And I turned to Jack Mack who you've
4:21done interviews with before and I said
4:22you know what I bet happened? I said I
4:24bet Sophie Cunningham showed up to the
4:25arena with no plans to do that tonight.
4:27She mentioned to Dana I'd like to do
4:29that. Dana said [ __ ] it. Get up there.
4:30And I knew immediately
4:33but what what's like the next step? Do
4:35you call production? Do you have like
4:36the other octagon girls show her how to
4:38do it? And like
4:39>> all great question comes up. So,
4:41literally, I called the truck, told
4:43them, "This is what we're going to do."
4:45Which I'll tell you something else that
4:47I was pissed off about, but they were
4:48right and I was wrong on this one. Um,
4:50[clears throat]
4:52then I told Amber, "We're going to do
4:54it." So, Amber gets her over there and
4:56and the Octagon girls are telling her,
4:58you know, so
5:00>> you got to do the walk down, sit in a
5:02chair. So you you said it,
5:04>> the Patty fight, they Patty walks out,
5:07the whole place is going crazy, da da
5:09da, and they have her do the first
5:10round.
5:12>> I'm like, you don't do the first [ __ ]
5:13round, you do the second round because,
5:16you know, a after the, you know, there's
5:18just so much emphasis on
5:20>> the fight starting, but there was never
5:22a second round.
5:23>> Second round
5:23>> again.
5:24>> Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] I mean, yeah.
5:25>> The rest of the night there was never a
5:27round two. So production killed that
5:29one. They were they
5:31>> Can we expect more? Were Were there
5:33people that hit you up after that? Like,
5:34oh, I want to do that next. Like, you
5:36think a celebrity ring girl can do that?
5:38>> I wouldn't do that. No, I I wouldn't do
5:39that. It was It was like
5:41>> It organically happened. It was cool. It
5:44was fun. And she was the perfect person
5:48to do it with. And even her outfit that
5:50she had on was perfect. She was
5:52absolutely perfect. She got barefoot and
5:54did it. And [laughter]
5:56yeah, Sophie Cunningham is awesome. and
5:58and uh she's starting to become
6:02a real star in sports and and uh welld
6:05deserved.
6:06>> Yeah. What did you feel like you got
6:08more texts about and motion in terms of
6:11either people asking for tickets or
6:13people just texting you about the fights
6:14if I asked you between the White House
6:15and the McGregor return?
6:17>> Ah different. So different. Um
6:20people were all talking about uh how
6:23great the card was, you know, the other
6:25night.
6:26>> Sorry I'm yawning. I'm not bored. I'm
6:28not boring you. I'm the hell is bored.
6:30>> So, [laughter]
6:32um, how great the card was and then I
6:34mean on the White House fight obviously,
6:37holy [ __ ] that was badass. The fly
6:39over. Um,
6:40>> I mean, even leading up to it, like what
6:43did you feel like was more like people
6:45asking you for tickets and stuff like
6:46that? Like more buzz around the leadup?
6:48>> Yeah, both. Both. Yeah,
6:49>> because the numbers are pretty similar,
6:50right? We just got the numbers released
6:52and I don't think they were drastically
6:53different by any means.
6:54>> Yeah. Um, yeah, both. Both both were
6:57big, but but by design, we we we knew
7:00what we were doing. We didn't just say,
7:01"Oh, throw some [ __ ] fights
7:03together." We knew that, you know, back
7:05to back this this this thing was going
7:07to be big. And uh I mean, wait till wait
7:11till um Paramount has their earnings
7:14call. You know what I mean? It's
7:15>> Yeah, it's going to be good.
7:16>> Yeah,
7:16>> it's going to be a good earnings call
7:17for Paramount. Uh McGregor just said
7:20today, I don't know if you've seen this
7:21yet, that his next fight has to be Max
7:23Holloway. Absolutely. Must be Max. Um,
7:27after the fights, you said not really
7:28interested in running that one back. Is
7:30that still something that you're like,
7:31"Yeah, I don't know why we would do
7:33that."
7:33>> Not even thinking about it.
7:34>> Is that because on Max's side, it's also
7:36like you're going to hang him up?
7:38>> Connor still has to have knee surgery.
7:40>> Yeah.
7:40>> And and and you know, go through
7:42>> You talked to him since the fight?
7:43>> Yeah. Yeah.
7:44>> Yeah.
7:45>> And go through everything that he's
7:46gonna have to go through. And I
7:47understand. Listen, he's, you know, he's
7:51very unhappy with the with with with the
7:53way [ __ ] played out, but
7:55you're a human being. You're older. You
7:58haven't fought in five years. And your
8:00body, listen, father time is undefeated.
8:02Okay? So, who the [ __ ] knows what's
8:05going to happen with Max over the next,
8:07you know, year
8:08>> and what's going to happen with Connor
8:09over the next year. So, I don't even
8:12think about that type of stuff until it
8:13becomes a reality. Yeah. When Connor
8:16reaches out and says, "Uh, finished all
8:18my physical therapy, legs in good place.
8:21They told me I can start training
8:22full-time now." Then you start thinking
8:24about what's next.
8:26>> Yeah. Do you hesitate building up
8:27another big main event like this for his
8:29next fight?
8:30>> I don't know. It's, you know,
8:32>> because he's in a weird spot where like,
8:35sure, if everything was perfect, a
8:36co-main event for him at this point
8:38doesn't seem that crazy to me. But it's
8:40also like I know there's a thousand
8:42people or not, there's going to be
8:43millions of people that tune in and go,
8:44"Ah, yeah, I'll turn it off after the
8:46Connor fight no matter who's up next."
8:48Like the casual the real casual fan.
8:50>> Yeah. Uh here we go again,
8:52>> man. He is bored with this.
8:54>> I don't I I don't know. I I I'm just I
8:56don't I'm not even thinking about any of
8:58that stuff cuz it's
9:00>> it's so long and so far away it doesn't
9:03matter.
9:04>> And then one more Connor question. when
9:06we heard Mayweather was going through
9:07some kind of struggles or whatever,
9:09someone asked you about it and you said,
9:10"Oh, maybe we could see if something
9:12happens."
9:13>> Oh, nobody ever thought of that before.
9:15It's just like, you know,
9:16>> you did kind of have a like, ah, maybe
9:18we could work something out.
9:19>> Here's my problem with the Mayweather
9:20McGregor fight. First of all, the first
9:22one, you know, was leading into it, I
9:25was just like, this is this is crazy.
9:27But, um, you know, we've seen that we've
9:31seen that fight before.
9:32>> I'm I'm 100% with you. I just the only
9:34thing that I thought of in that moment I
9:36was like is that something where if
9:39Connor let's say after this injury he
9:41seems very intent on returning to the
9:43octagon but let's say he said you know
9:44what I don't know if I want to have
9:45another MMA fight I want to go box I was
9:48thinking like you could sell it as
9:49Mayweather's 10 years older than he was
9:51and McGregor's you know a different
9:53fighter now I don't know personally I
9:55would much rather see him in the octagon
9:56I would much rather see like a McGregor
9:58Chandler at this point I feel like that
9:59makes a lot of sense now
10:00>> and and and the problem is that When
10:03when you talk about the Max fight,
10:05right, Connor won the fight with Max
10:08when they first fought. Max wins this
10:10fight. You have like a trilogy there.
10:12Whatever. There was nothing about the
10:15Mayweather fight that makes me say,
10:18>> you know, if we did that again, there
10:19might be a different outcome.
10:20>> People still say that uppercut in the
10:22first round. You know [laughter]
10:24>> what? People
10:25>> people on Twitter. Um, our guy Patty,
10:28what a night for Patty the Batty.
10:30Absolutely unreal win. And I feel it was
10:32a win that may have put a lot of people
10:34on notice and it felt good to be a
10:36longtime Patty supporter. Obviously
10:38Barsttow in general, we've all been in
10:40in Patty's corner since the beginning.
10:42>> But we got a lot of push back in the
10:43beginning. Oh, he's getting favorable
10:45matchups. Oh, he's not UFC caliber this,
10:47he's not caliber that. And then he goes
10:49in there and has against Gachi. And then
10:52Benois Saint Denise puts
10:54>> I tell you what, we don't do favorable
10:55matchups. Okay. Every everybody's had to
10:58fight their way to the top in the UFC,
11:00including Patty, including Connor, Jon
11:03Jones, Anderson Silva. Yeah. Go, you
11:05know, George St. Pierre, go through the
11:07laundry list of guys who have been here,
11:10>> nobody had favorable matchups. That's
11:12just
11:13>> and and it's just you see after his last
11:15couple fights even the Gachi loss. I
11:17feel like the Gatechi loss especially
11:18after Gatechi goes and beats Taporia has
11:20aged very well where people are like
11:22yeah he went in there and traded with
11:23Gachi for five rounds and was still on
11:26his feet at the end of it and he was
11:27winning rounds
11:28>> at the end of that loss. He gained 2
11:31million followers that weekend. Right.
11:34>> And the loss
11:35>> Yeah. He comes out the other night and
11:38the crowd is responding to him like he's
11:40defending his title for the [ __ ] 25th
11:43time,
11:43>> right? Everybody's going crazy.
11:46>> And he wins in [ __ ] unbelievably
11:50spectacular fashion and he gains 300,000
11:54followers
11:55>> in the win.
11:56>> Crazy.
11:57>> That's That's a crazy stat,
11:59>> right?
11:59>> Yeah. That's wild. I mean, the lay the
12:03pictures of BSD. He looked like he was
12:04in hell in that choke.
12:06>> I'm laying Oh, yeah. That guy's still
12:08not swallowing. Yeah, that's for sure.
12:09>> Yeah.
12:10>> And
12:12Oh, New York, baby.
12:13>> It's Seventh A. Sorry.
12:14>> Um, so I'm laying in bed. My phone
12:16starts ringing the next day on Sunday
12:19and it's the producers of Mob Land.
12:22They're like, "We want Patty Pimpblelet.
12:24>> Get the [ __ ] out of here." Oh my god.
12:27You get the scowzer in Mob Land
12:28alongside Tom Hardy. hitting that great.
12:30>> Oh my god, that'd be so awesome.
12:32>> Yeah, I hope he does.
12:33>> Incredible. He's got to be one of the
12:34biggest stars the UFC has at this point,
12:36right? Like, do you think he's
12:37>> Definitely one of the biggest stars?
12:38>> Top five, right?
12:39>> Definitely.
12:39>> Yeah. Wow. Who else would you put in
12:41that category with them?
12:42>> Top stars.
12:43>> Yeah.
12:44>> I mean, Jon Jones is is is still around.
12:48You have uh uh Ali um Morab has done
12:54very well.
12:55Islam. Absolutely. Do you think Arman's
12:57up there with all he's been doing with
12:59Nina and stuff?
13:00>> Arman definitely is.
13:01>> I feel like you can't go a day without
13:02seeing an army.
13:02>> That guy's done a great job of getting
13:04out there and getting himself a lot of
13:05attention and uh you know a lot of lot
13:09of lot of Nina Drama work. You know what
13:11I mean?
13:11>> Yeah.
13:12>> If you look at the the people that that
13:14have been built, you know,
13:17>> it is impossible to deny that N needs
13:20built some of these guys from Rob to
13:21Sean Strickland,
13:23>> um Armen, you know, and and these guys
13:26are smart. They lean into the
13:27relationship with her.
13:28>> Yeah, absolutely. Is there any talk
13:30about what's happening at lightweight
13:32already? It's a traffic jam at the top.
13:34There's so many great fighters at
13:35lightweight where it almost seems like
13:37you could put together a bunch of
13:38different matchups that would make sense
13:39right now. Is there talk about that
13:41already?
13:41>> Oh, yeah. Um, absolutely. And uh
13:45[clears throat] you know, if you look at
13:48coming into this summer, we knew we you
13:50know, we launched on Paramount and we
13:52knew we were going to do some big stuff
13:54in the summer and then every year as we
13:57go into October and November, you know,
13:59we end up having some great fights. So,
14:01it's it's going to be a uh
14:04>> it's going to be a hell of an end of
14:06this year.
14:07>> Awesome. It's already been a great year.
14:08Is there any chance we see an interim
14:10light heavyweight title with out? It was
14:13an amazing moment in Miami where he
14:15hurts himself. Everyone could see that
14:16he hurts himself in the cage. Then he
14:18has a finish for the ages which it it's
14:20crazy how fast MMA moves. White House
14:22McGregor afterwards that almost feels
14:24like it was like way in the distance.
14:25That was only a couple months ago.
14:26>> It does. Feels like last year.
14:28>> Yeah. Is there any chance we see an
14:30interim title while he's out?
14:31>> Very possible.
14:32>> Yeah. Paulo Costa has also been talking
14:34a lot this week. He said he turned down
14:35the the ank fight, couldn't cut the
14:37weight in time. Is there any plans with
14:39Paulo Costa outside of that? Yeah, I I
14:41know the matchmakers are, you know, in
14:44the middle of it with him right now.
14:46>> Okay. Um Jon Jones, you mentioned too,
14:48you saw him this weekend, right? He put
14:50up a picture of you guys. He said to
14:52Ring magazine that he's waiting for the
14:53UFC to offer him something right now.
14:56>> What's your take on that? Because I was
14:57under the impression he was retired.
14:59>> I was under the same impression.
15:01>> Okay. Did you see that quote?
15:02>> Yeah,
15:04we're always making offers. So, when you
15:07have uh I didn't see that quote. No. Um,
15:10you know, we have all these we have like
15:12almost 800 guys under contract
15:15>> and they all have to be offered three
15:17fights a year. So these guys are always
15:21>> even if he's saying he's retired, he's
15:23not technically retired because he's
15:25still in the pool.
15:25>> Yeah, that's different.
15:26>> He's also snip snap snip snap. He's
15:28saying he's Yeah, don't get me started.
15:29>> Don't even Don't even get me started.
15:30>> Don't get us started on this freaking
15:32guy. Uh Hamzot recently said Sean
15:34Strickland is running away from him. So,
15:36this makes me think, when does a fighter
15:39deserve an immediate rematch after
15:41losing a title? Do you think it it
15:43varies case by case? Do you think you
15:45should have to have at least additional
15:47case?
15:47>> It's a case by case because one of the
15:49big problems that that that happened in
15:51boxing is they would cut these deals
15:52where there was a mandatory Yeah.
15:54>> immediate rematch and things like that.
15:56And what if the fight sucks and what if
15:57people don't want to see it? What if you
15:59got dominated? And what if you know
16:00there there's a lot of different
16:02variables that determine what's next?
16:06Because there there are so many
16:08different
16:09options for fights out there.
16:11>> Yeah.
16:11>> And and the question is what do the fans
16:14want to see
16:15>> and that's always how you go.
16:17>> That's always what matters to me.
16:18>> So it's the same thing like Ilia and
16:20Gachi right now. Uh Sean Strickland and
16:23Hamzad. Obviously, I feel like both of
16:24those are in areas where it's like if
16:26you gave an immediate rematch to the guy
16:28who lost, I don't think the fans would
16:29be necessarily that upset about it.
16:30>> I agree with you.
16:31>> But there's also other contenders that
16:32you could give that fight to.
16:34>> I agree with you 100% on that, too.
16:36>> All right.
16:36>> These are always the,
16:39>> you know, it's and and and it's a good
16:41problem to have.
16:42>> Of course. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like a few
16:44divisions have that problem where
16:45there's just so many guys at the top
16:46that are deserving that you have the
16:48options available. Yeah. Uh, we also
16:50have the first UFC Philly pay-per-view
16:52in a long time coming up,
16:53>> which we're me and my team are really
16:55excited about. So, I'm a
16:57>> I'm a big Philly fan and uh I I love the
17:01place. I love the food there. As soon as
17:03I [ __ ] hit the ground, I'm getting a
17:05cheese steak.
17:06>> Um, you go. I'm a Goss guy. Yeah, I go
17:10cheese steak. And then um
17:12[clears throat] which I haven't been
17:13there in a long time, but
17:16uh even at the Four Seasons there, you
17:18know, you know, uh like Chinese egg
17:21rolls.
17:21>> Oh, yeah.
17:22>> They do the cheese steak egg the the
17:26one of my favorite foods in the world.
17:27Cheese steak egg rolls.
17:27>> One of the best things I've ever had.
17:29>> My favorite foods in the world. There's
17:30a place in Jersey City, Hudson Hall,
17:32that does them. It was my go-to.
17:34>> Really?
17:34>> You put something in an egg roll. I I've
17:36been I've been a huge egg on an egg roll
17:38kick. I went to I did a walk in my town.
17:40There was a firefighter truck called
17:42Stop Drop Egg Roll. I had a a vodka parm
17:46egg roll. We had a bacon, egg, and
17:47cheese in an egg. It's got a It was in
17:49Little Ferry, New Jersey. This is the
17:50town I grew up in.
17:51>> I thought you were going to say
17:52somewhere in New York.
17:52>> No. Oh my god. You just
17:54>> Me and L were going to head there as
17:55soon as we walked out of here.
17:56>> Can we do a full [ __ ] it Friday? We'll
17:58bring it [snorts] back. Just uh egg roll
18:00flight.
18:01>> I love it.
18:01>> Whole flight of egg rolls.
18:03>> [ __ ] Am I doing that today?
18:04>> Yes. [laughter]
18:07When he said that, it just clicked in my
18:10head.
18:11>> That's not going to agree with the
18:1210xing, right?
18:13>> Yeah. No, no. I I've been keto. I'm
18:15going to break keto at what, six
18:17o'clock.
18:18>> Five.
18:18>> Five.
18:20>> All right. Um Yeah. But anyway, Philly,
18:23like you know, you know, I'm a Celtics
18:24fan. So, uh whenever we do an away game,
18:27I love to do away games in Philly
18:29because the fans are
18:30>> [ __ ] hilarious. They always yell [ __ ]
18:32at me. And you know, I'll go in there
18:33with all my Celtics gear on and they're
18:35like, "You got some [ __ ] balls
18:37wearing that here. [laughter] [ __ ] you.
18:39UFC sucks."
18:43>> And I like I love every minute of it.
18:44And if we can walk out of Philly with
18:46the win, it's it's just the best thing
18:48in the world. And and usually like the
18:50guys that are all sitting around me like
18:52the Philly fans that they're hilarious
18:54and they're fun and
18:55>> the accents are taco accents. Yeah. Um
18:58is there any fights that are going to be
18:59added to that card still or is that card
19:01done? Um,
19:03>> I was surprised, I'm not going to lie,
19:04not to see like Pyer, Brady on there,
19:06like the three guys.
19:07>> Yeah, I off the top of my head, I don't
19:09know uh where we are exactly with that
19:11card
19:12>> and how full it is.
19:14>> I also I'm wearing the Oasis shirt
19:15today. I've seen Null Gallagher keeps
19:17coming to the fight with his case.
19:18>> How cool is that?
19:18>> And he had a quote where he was like,
19:19"You can't go back to boxing once you
19:21see this." Which I You're wearing the
19:22Zua box.
19:23>> He is the nicest [ __ ] guy ever, too.
19:25Really? Yeah. Really nice guy. And uh we
19:28love having him.
19:28>> Yeah, it's awesome. He's gotten way into
19:30it. I think his sons are super into it
19:31as well. I saw Patty.
19:32>> Well, that's usually how it happens. I
19:33mean, you're going to find out someday.
19:35As you get older, your your kids start
19:37turning you on to things that, you know,
19:39>> you never thought you'd be into. What is
19:41that for
19:41>> my relationship with the N Boys started
19:43from my son Dana?
19:44>> There there we go. Um, what do you think
19:46of the all of the UFC RAF crossover that
19:50there's been? There's a lot of UFC
19:51fighters that are now going over and
19:53wrestling in RAF. Are you totally cool
19:54with that as long as you know they're
19:56not in an active camp? Do you worry at
19:58all about someone going over there and
19:59getting injured?
20:00>> Yeah. Uh, I mean, you always got to
20:01worry about that, but they can get
20:03injured
20:04>> training. You know what I mean? It can
20:05happen. I mean, look at Connor. Connor
20:09was in the back. You know, Amber, we
20:10talked about Amber earlier that, you
20:12know, Amber runs the ops for the UFC.
20:15She's a [ __ ] animal. She's literally
20:17my like little badass the night of the
20:19fight. And we were in my room after
20:21after and then it was starting to
20:24circulate, you know, was Connor injured
20:26before and Amber said, I I went back in
20:29his dressing room and he was kicking the
20:31[ __ ] out of the pads back there and then
20:34that footage ended up coming up from the
20:35social team, but um you know, Connor got
20:39injured as soon as the fight started.
20:41So,
20:41>> I know. Yeah. Anything is
20:42>> possible. I obviously I based on
20:44everything you've said, based on
20:45everything Connor said, I don't think
20:46there was an injury going into the
20:47fight. There was that weird clip a lot
20:49of people poses where he's taking his
20:50shoes off and he stumbles back. An
20:51injury could have happened there. As
20:53crazy as that sounds, like there are
20:54wrestlers, Randy Orton famously injured
20:56his back, taking the garbage out. DC
20:58before MSG, remember he threw his back
21:00out sneezing
21:01>> before the Derrick Lewis fight. He's
21:02like, "Yeah, I sneezed. I threw my back
21:03out."
21:04>> Yep. No, that's a good point.
21:05>> Freak injuries. Yeah.
21:06>> But according to people that saw Connor
21:08in his dressing room warming up, you
21:10know, they're like, "There's no way he
21:11was injured. He was kicking the shit."
21:13And and when I talked to Connor, I don't
21:15like to talk too much about things that
21:17I talk to the fighters about personally
21:19and privately, but you know, [snorts] he
21:21he was like, "Dana,
21:24>> I worked on that kick my entire camp and
21:27and
21:28>> it was I landed it. I hurt a lot of guys
21:31with it and you know,
21:33>> yeah,
21:34>> it's crazy. So, who knows? I can't
21:36believe he threw that kick to open the
21:37fight. I know he throws crazy kicks to
21:38open the fight, but you're off a
21:40fiveyear off injury and you're like, I'm
21:42throwing a jumping switch kick. You're
21:43like, holy [ __ ] you've got balls.
21:45>> Yeah,
21:46>> that's Connor, though. Um, did anything
21:49that Ronda Rousey was saying in the
21:50leadup to her fight rub you the wrong
21:52way? I know that you and Ronda are super
21:54cool and she would usually be like,
21:55"Yeah, like I got nothing against Dana.
21:57We went the wrong way." But then she
21:58would go real hard against Hunter, real
22:00hard against the UFC, real hard against
22:01the White House guard against Kayla
22:03Harrison. And eventually to me it felt
22:05like the fight was more putting the UFC
22:06down than putting her fight up. Was
22:08there anything she said where you
22:10>> I don't disagree with that. Um I uh No,
22:14but no, me and Ronda are super close. We
22:16have a great relationship and you know I
22:18wanted uh her and Gina to succeed which
22:21Gina too I I I uh I I have a great
22:24relationship with too. Um so no.
22:28>> All right. Fair enough. It rubbed me the
22:30wrong way for for a little bit.
22:31>> Yeah. I think a, you know, a lot of
22:32people did reach out to me um and and
22:36were upset with Rhonda and people that
22:38you that that used to like her like I
22:39don't like her anymore and all this
22:41stuff, but uh you know Rhonda
22:45had to sell a fight.
22:46>> Yeah, it was just when she would talk
22:48[ __ ] about Kayla, I was like what are
22:49you bringing up Kayla's name for and
22:51talking [ __ ] about Kayla? And then I
22:52would say that and then people would be
22:53like you're a Dana bootlicker. He paid
22:55you for this tweet. [laughter]
22:57>> Yeah, my man.
22:59>> Oh yeah. Oh, they're going to clip that.
23:00They're going to [laughter] hate that.
23:01>> That's right. Robbie Fox, look at the
23:03boots.
23:05>> Oh, no. That That's going to live on
23:06forever. [laughter] That's going to That
23:08sound bite is going to live on forever.
23:10Um, this is something we were talking We
23:12were joking before.
23:12>> If you have any kind of common sense in
23:15in MMA, you're an ass kicker, a
23:17bootlicker, a glazer, a [ __ ]
23:19[laughter] and all this other [ __ ]
23:20people say.
23:21>> Yeah. No, I get I get those all the
23:23time. We were talking in the office
23:24about you coming in and someone joked,
23:26"Oh, what are you going to ask him about
23:27superhero movies?" And I said, 'I don't
23:29think he's ever seen a superhero movie.
23:30And they were like, come on. He's had to
23:32see some superhero movies. So, I am
23:33going to ask you about superhero movies
23:35now. Have you ever seen a superhero
23:37movie?
23:37>> Yes. I I love Deadpool.
23:40>> Really?
23:40>> Love Deadpool.
23:42>> Really? You all the Deadpool movies or
23:44just the first one?
23:44>> First one.
23:45>> Okay.
23:45>> First one. The first Deadpool movie is
23:47an incredible incredible movie.
23:50>> I'm with you. Hysterical. Yeah. And very
23:52much diverts your expectation of what a
23:53superhero movie could be.
23:54>> 100%.
23:55>> Yeah. you ever get into,
23:56>> you know, my son, my son that Aiden that
23:58did the manga uh is
24:03absolutely psychotic about all that
24:05stuff and and uh
24:07>> so he turned me on to we I've watched a
24:10few episodes of a couple different ones
24:12that are [ __ ] great shows where
24:15>> the guy who's supposed to be like
24:16Superman is a dick and he's a bad guy.
24:18>> Oh, the boys.
24:19>> The boys and and then the one with uh
24:23with John Cena is incredible.
24:24Peacemaker.
24:25>> Incredible.
24:26>> All great shows. So that's your lane.
24:28It's It's got to be
24:28>> Well, no, they're not my lane.
24:30>> No, no, but I mean, if you're going to
24:31watch a superhero movie, give me a
24:32little comedy. Give me a little
24:33runiness.
24:34>> Exactly.
24:34>> Yeah.
24:35>> I don't watch TV. I know. I don't watch
24:38TV.
24:38>> Except Mob Land, right?
24:40>> Mob Land and Land Man.
24:41>> Yeah. Paramount shows.
24:43>> Land Man might be the greatest TV show
24:44I've ever seen.
24:45>> Really? I haven't watched it. I got to
24:47get on. That's Billy Bob, right?
24:48>> Yeah.
24:49>> Well, you haven't seen it?
24:50>> No.
24:50>> Oh my god.
24:51>> How many seasons are out right now? Only
24:53a couple, right? Uh, the second season's
24:55coming out right now, I think.
24:56>> All right, I'll get on that before our
24:59next interview. I I'll be caught up on
25:00landing.
25:01>> The writing,
25:03uh, the acting, the characters, it's
25:08it's unbeliev Thornton, man, you know,
25:11he's had this this weird career where,
25:14you know, Billy Bob Thornton's a big
25:16star, but Billy Bob Thornton is like
25:19almost like the anti- star. And then and
25:21then you know he disappeared for a while
25:23or he probably did some stuff that I
25:25didn't see since Slingblade, right?
25:27>> Yeah.
25:28>> Yeah.
25:28>> And then when when when you when when
25:30you see him in this show, he's just such
25:32a [ __ ] great actor, man. He's so
25:35good.
25:36>> He's good in the [ __ ] T-Mobile
25:38commercial he's in. You know what I
25:39mean? It's it's like
25:41>> it's you got to watch Lamb Man.
25:43>> If I could pass along a recommendation
25:44myself, I know you're not a big TV guy.
25:46Billy Bob is one of the stars of the
25:48first season of Fargo when they did
25:50Fargo as a TV show.
25:51>> Okay.
25:52>> His character in that first season is
25:54one of the best characters I've ever
25:55seen in any TV show.
25:57>> Really
25:57>> lights out good. And it Fargo is a cool
25:59show because every season is a
26:00completely different story. So you could
26:02just watch one season and it feels like
26:04you watch the entire series.
26:05>> So I would recommend the first season of
26:07Fargo if you're a Billy Bob guy.
26:08>> Okay. Done. Well, I became a Billy Bob
26:11guy. So now I'm going to watch the first
26:13first season of Fargo.
26:14>> Taylor Sheridan's a fight guy, right?
26:15Taylor Sheridan comes to the UFC.
26:16>> Yeah, he was just there.
26:17>> Yeah, he was at the fights this weekend.
26:18Yeah, you got his name right when the
26:20name card came up.
26:21>> Yeah, [laughter]
26:22shout out to UFC production. Good job,
26:24boys.
26:26>> And then uh this this is one we we've
26:29got, this is going to sound crazy, but
26:30we've got a new esports team here at
26:32Barto. It's called the Telluride Bush,
26:35>> and the the guys are constantly looking
26:37for sponsorships. And one of them,
26:38Jersey Jerry, called me and it was like
26:40late at night. He said, "Hey, what if
26:42your finger slipped tonight?" and he
26:44accidentally sent me Dana White's phone
26:45number and I said, "Jerry, my finger
26:48don't slip like that." I said, "My
26:50finger just don't slip." But I said, "I
26:51will at least ask Dana about esports the
26:54next time I talk to him." Have you ever
26:55invested in an esports team?
26:57>> Yeah. No, but what would they look Oh,
27:00they're looking for me to uh to to to be
27:02a partner in the team.
27:03>> Yeah. Which listen, I'm not I'm not
27:05asking, but that is what that they were
27:07they were asking me to ask.
27:09>> Okay. Um Yeah. I was just curious, have
27:12you ever looked into that? The crafts
27:14and everything. Yeah, they me info.
27:16>> All right, I will. I will.
27:17>> Um, that's pretty much all I had. We got
27:19to get you off to your uh your egg roll
27:21shoot, I think.
27:22>> Have you watched Mob Land?
27:24>> No, haven't. Haven't got on that either.
27:26>> Robbie.
27:27>> And I love Tom Hardy, too.
27:30>> Did you see Snatch?
27:32>> Of course. One of my favorite movies.
27:33>> This is Guy. So, Guy Richie doing what
27:36Guy Richie does.
27:37>> Yeah, I love Guy Richie. Mob Land is
27:40absolutely [ __ ] incredible. And the
27:42second season is about to drop. So
27:43>> yeah,
27:44>> knock out that first season and and text
27:47me after you watch
27:47>> Mob Land or Land Man, which one should I
27:49watch first?
27:50>> [ __ ] both.
27:51>> If I'm watching one first, though.
27:54[cough]
27:54[clears throat]
27:56>> The only reason I'm saying this because
27:58I think it's probably more you is is Mob
28:01Land.
28:01>> It probably is. I love mob stuff. I like
28:03western stuff. Plan man's more western.
28:05>> No, it's not western. It's it's it's
28:07about,
28:08>> you know, the the the the oil business,
28:10>> okay,
28:11>> down in down in Texas and and the guys
28:13that actually
28:15>> own it, run it, drill it,
28:18>> okay?
28:18>> And and it is, you know, it you would
28:21never think that this would be something
28:23that, you know, topic that you would be
28:25interested in. But the show is so
28:27[ __ ] good. Like the minute it starts
28:29till it ends, I laugh my ass off. That
28:31like the writing is so smart and so good
28:34and Billy Bob's character is great.
28:36>> The the wife and the daughter are
28:38incredible and and the lawyer uh I like
28:41her too. Uh it just Yeah, I I want your
28:44opinion being a younger dude on both
28:46both shows.
28:47>> I will 100% watch them, man. I'll I'll
28:49hit you up. I'll tell you what I
28:50thought. All right. Thanks, Dana, for
28:52coming in. I appreciate it. Thanks for
28:54having me. We'll see you next time.