När UFC såldes till WME-IMG för 4,2 miljarder dollar förra året var det många som trodde att Dana White skulle försvinna från sporten. Inte troligt, enligt White själv. Hans kärlek till sporten fortsätter att driva honom och UFC till nya höjder.
I sex minuter lång intervju på MMAjunkie talar Dana White om hur det var att skiljas från Fertitta-bröderna, året hittills och vad som ligger i pipelinen för framtiden med mera.
Dana White: ”We are working on some crazy shit”
“What am I going to do?” frågade White “What am I going to do? It’s not like I hit the lottery and I’m just going to take off and disappear. I love this sport, and obviously the hardest part about the sale was leaving the Fertitta brothers.
It was like a divorce. I went through that, I got through it, and I’m back on the ball and doing my thing. I love it. I’m not going anywhere, and we’re actually working on some crazy (expletive) right now, and I’m looking forward to it. We’ll blow everybody’s minds again next year.”
“That’s the way this business works” sa White angående toppar och dalar i UFC. “When you’re coming off a year like we had last year, you just can’t keep rolling.”
Han fortsätter:
“When have I ever told you guys that big things were coming and big things didn’t come? We’re working on a lot of great stuff. We’re working on things in China. Mexico, and the U.K. right now. We’re working on things in Russia, and we’re working on some even bigger (expletive), which we’ll probably be announcing next year. I’m not going anywhere man. We’re looking at how we take combat sports to the next level.”
