"khabib beat Connor Putin was on FaceTime before he even made it to the to the locker room um Trump sitting president ex-president watching all the fights coling wants to talk about the fights um Valen..."

"the following is a conversation with Dana White the president of the UFC a mixed martial arts organization that revolutionized the art the sport and The Business of fighting and Dana is truly The Mast..."

"was my first fight oh he was something special yeah incredible I mean when you look around um not just here in the office but at my house Ali and Tyson are everywhere would you put Ali as the greatest..."

"that's important I agree with you and and he was the right guy in the right place at the right time and he's also a guy who used his platform for all the right things so that might have been your firs..."

"down to the commentary you loved and hated hated the yeah hated the commentary certain things that I loved about boxing I incorporated into the UFC things that I hated about boxing I made sure that th..."

"time and listen to this listen to this entrance of the former Undisputed heavyweight champion and here he comes Mike Tyson as he heads toward the same ring he made his disgraceful exit in June of 97 t..."

"don't remember that you're right imagine you're right you you you you you paid your money to watch Mike Tyson and you got to listen to these fucking jerk offs talk shit about them the whole way to the..."

"sparring then they go in and they have to fight that night and then you have to you know if you watch your fight back you got to listen to this bullshit from these guys and then and then you get inter..."

"this and once I get on this I lose my mind maybe would we wouldn't have a UFC if they didn't fuck it up so bad and for the Tyson it would be different you're not wrong you're not wrong it would be dif..."

"this Frank Shamrock came in one day and Frank Shamrock had me in uh side control mhm the pressure that this guy put on my chest made me tab yeah felt like there was a car on my chest and with zero eff..."

"science and it looks like fighting now it looks more like fighting as opposed to with the ghee sometimes it doesn't quite look like fighting right and I feel like it's uh transferable to actual like M..."

"into a martial art should I put my daughter into karate or should I put her into this you put your daughter into Jiu-Jitsu 100% because it's not about size or strength it's about technique and you giv..."

"they were and Lorenzo and I always felt like there's something here that if this thing was done the right way this could be big and what was crazy was I uh I was in a contract negotiation with Bob mee..."

"story so Affliction do you remember Affliction yeah so there was a guy I want to say I want I want to say his name was Tom Todd beard or something like that this guy used to text me every day when the..."

"types of the production business of all these different you know when I first started this I uh we had a production team that was the production team that was in it before we bought it so there was th..."

"100% you well you you you have to have the vision without the vision there's nothing so that's sort of what I do um I I I am the vision part of of this thing we're going to open a a p die in Mexico we..."

"shit I literally move the birth of my second son for a chocolate L fight we had a chocolate L fight coming up and I and they're like yeah your son's going to be born on this date and I'm like yeah tha..."

"that if anybody can do it right it's us so why not take that challenge it's actually why I'm here I'm going to this feere for the first time because I'm hanging out with Darren aronowski who put toget..."

"combat sporting event of all time um but yeah there's I mean there's challenges there's a laundry list of challenges for this thing and not to mention the fact that it's on indep Mexican Independence ..."

"it's a fact he doesn't care about money and he did the first 13 shows for free for us yeah you know what I mean that was at a time when we were hurting and he's like wait a minute you you want me to d..."

"Joe Rogan the guy from Fear Factor on the show yeah and he was promoting Fear Factor but all he would talk about was UFC and yeah J he was talking about how people think that these guys in the martial..."

"up to a fight never good yeah they sound like they're tired they act like they're tired and they definitely act like they don't want to be on there and it it's it's bad radio what you can't have is ba..."

"I'll have dinner with him offline he'll just talk fighting just loves it true loves every aspect of it yep Joe Rogan is is is one of those guys I saw that early on when why would you go after the Fear..."

"have been with me they they know exactly what's up and Joe knows what's up and and and and and it's and again it's a two-way street Joe Rogan has been very loyal to me and I am very loyal to Joe Rogan..."

"them um and obviously for all of us when you think about the UFC and how big it is and how far it reaches and how many people it touches the fertitas brothers made a $2 million investment then put in ..."

"M we don't determine who wins and loses if we did we'd be the WWE okay um you do I'm the bells and whistles guy I make sure that as many people that we can possibly let know that you're fighting on Sa..."

"big things that happens in these other organizations and these other organizations the inmates run the Asylum right so if they don't want to fight bad enough these other companies don't push and they ..."

"that night that's what makes fucking Legends it's interesting cuz like sometimes being the underdog is a really good thing for the long-term story of who you are as a fighter especially when you're a ..."

"time without argument and if you look at the way that khabib ran through so many people Connor hung in there you know yeah and it could have been made a fight of it it could have been what do you thin..."

"fucking stories of why I we go into Monday it's fight week we got a whole list of things that we do fight week right and then you get right down to the press conference on Thursday the weigh-ins on Fr..."

"MVP um you're going to see it with Kayla Harrison and uh so many others that that that have come from other organizations and they get here they notice immediately the difference between fighting here..."

"jacked man it's crazy two-time Olympic gold Metalist right you don't fuck with those people you you want a medal you're you're You're Made Of Something Special so true especially in Judo yeah especial..."

"Jones he's never lost no he's never been beat in the Octagon ever so that's one of the metrics like pure sheer dominance but there's others right there you could losing sometimes is a catalyst for gre..."

"it breaks my heart because he beat DC and DC is one of the greatest of all time that's the thing too and and I believe that DC doesn't get the credit he deserves because of the Jon Jones thing when yo..."

"on time and sometimes he does sometimes he does he'd be he'd he's been a great partner if you look at what a huge Superstar he became the fights that he was involved in let me tell you what Conor McGr..."

"the UFC big he opened it up to all kinds of new eyes yep he literally um you know set Europe Australia Canada and many other parts of the world on fire man he he he he he was a our our first legit Meg..."

"yourself become a legend I mean it's like Jon Jones needed seral gun right and seral gun needed Jon Jones because if zero could have beat Jon the first guy if anybody can ever figure it out and beat J..."

"them both listen I could line up I could line up a bunch of no-name bums that Jon Jones could run through that's what they do in all the other organizations yeah right we would have nothing to fucking..."

"about the fights right um khabib beat Connor Putin was on FaceTime before he even made it to the to the locker room um Trump sitting president ex-president watching all the fights calling wants to tal..."

"career Trump would reach out whether it was we were on the front page of the New York Times at one time and he said congratulations Dana I always knew you guys were going to do it little things like t..."

"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 and uh i' ..."

"I've ever seen him fucked up obviously as soon as I heard it I reached out and I have never think look at all the stuff that's gone on with Trump all the bad stuff that they say they're trying to atta..."

"doesn't seem to be phased by the fire I've gotten to know him as Elon I have to ask you it's a bit a bit of fun you were a part of um thinking about putting together Zuck versus Elon right I trained w..."

"think he fights though like what is that about is there a broader lesson there about Fighters about great Fighters I think that Mike Tyson is actually one of those unique guys who has crossed over any..."

"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 custot I mean he was a student of the game he he he loved everything he became..."

"event and the main event uh Diego Sanchez ran through Kenny Floren 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 Stef..."

"winning they they both wanted to win The Ultimate Fighter so bad yeah it's the Kia it's it's the win it's the it's the um the contract to get the whole thing but I think at that point you even forget ..."

"all I mean there uh there's something about CU I've competed a lot and Jiu-Jitsu uh so there's the violence of being hit too but even just exhaustion y it makes you question everything so true it just..."

"winning a battle over themselves so true it's so true and it happens every fucking weekend it's so impressive I say it all the time the the the people that are involved in this sport are this much of ..."

"there so I go over there with some buddies and we got one of the sweets and we have some dinner and we start drinking right so we're having some drinks at dinner and blah blah blah starts to ramp up h..."

"stands out my head the most as far as uh having a bad loss and then you know of course I said call the gym and I started calling him a pussy at 3:00 in the morning so of course he did that is somethin..."

"speech uh it's the truth though it it's the truth though it listen every day when you get out of bed life stand are right there to kick you in the fucking face man could be anything could be you get u..."

"for this life that I have so you're grateful you're celebrating even if the day is full of shit yet full of problems yet to solve all this you're still able to put that behind you love that too I love..."

"changed the whole trajectory of my life was Vision Quest oh yeah well yeah that that's a good one too Vision Quest man I I fucking love that movie it's basically you know it's telling the story of a k..."

"the shitty little fucking apartment that the guy lives in and the guy's putting his suit and tie on and shit he's like they said you called in sick what's going on he's like yeah aren't you wrestling ..."

"it's it's it's excellent you know what's funny they just did like the and I saw this after the fact which completely fucking pissed me off they did like the 25 year or the 30y year thing it was filmed..."

"the quotes on the wall in the gym in there is um you know there is no tomorrow from from from Rocky 3 you know there is no tomorrow fuck that shit let's let's let's get all this shit done today do you..."

"well Dana thank you for bringing this very human thing of fighting the art of it the science of it the the heroic stories The Vision Quest stories of it all boom um really appreciate you talking today..."