Dana White sings the praises of the man who tried to bury MMA
Proving, once again, that I am a sucker for a UFC press release, I'll point out that the UFC has released exceprts from Dana White's Playboy interview. In the interview, Dana talks about John McCain's campaign to ban mixed martial arts:
But I can understand why White feels the way he does. Without McCain the UFC would not have been kicked off of cable TV, the UFC probably would not have started losing a lot of money and SEG would not have sold the promotion to Zuffa. That would have left White managing fighters (take it from me - the job is not as fun as it sounds) instead of running the UFC.
Of course, Dana's view also goes hand in hand with the alternate version version of history that seems to show up in articles about White. As Zach Arnold has summarized this usually involves, "the common factual errors about who introduced time limits, weight divisions, ringside judges, etc." (Plus, there's the other common error in which the Zuffa receives all the credit for getting the sport regulated by athletic commissions). Funny how that works, no?
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“On Senator John McCain’s opposition to the UFC: “I’ll tell you what about Senator John McCain. He’s a boxing fanatic and he went after the UFC, and thank god he did. I credit Senator McCain with our having this sport today. The bottom line is this sport needs to be regulated…If it weren’t for McCain, we wouldn’t be where we are today.”Another way to look at the McCain episode is that MMA was already adding rules and safety precautions when McCain attacked it in order to protect his boxing buddies' interests. McCain's campaign set the sport back for years, and the heat McCain brought made it much more difficult for MMA promoters to find states willing to regulate it.
But I can understand why White feels the way he does. Without McCain the UFC would not have been kicked off of cable TV, the UFC probably would not have started losing a lot of money and SEG would not have sold the promotion to Zuffa. That would have left White managing fighters (take it from me - the job is not as fun as it sounds) instead of running the UFC.
Of course, Dana's view also goes hand in hand with the alternate version version of history that seems to show up in articles about White. As Zach Arnold has summarized this usually involves, "the common factual errors about who introduced time limits, weight divisions, ringside judges, etc." (Plus, there's the other common error in which the Zuffa receives all the credit for getting the sport regulated by athletic commissions). Funny how that works, no?
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Dana White was not even in the MMA business when
Senator McCain was taking on SEG & Bob Myrowitz.
About this time Dana was teaching a Womens Cardio
class in suburban Vegas.
Dana & his lackey Reed Harris are cherrys to the MMA business compared to the people who have been really in the belly of the beast.
Dana White should not comment about MMA matters & situations that he was not directly involved in, much like his lackey Reed Harris Dana
talks out his ass as if he was in the game before Zuffa bought the UFC from SEG.
Both Dana & Reed are so full of themselves that
they can not seperate their egos in regards to the
real history of the UFC & It's past detractors.
Posted by Anonymous | 6/07/2006 12:23 AM