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A preview of coming attractions on ESPN’s E:60 show with Dana White
By Zach Arnold | May 11, 2009
This Tuesday at 7 PM EST, ESPN will air footage that they taped of a recent interview between Tom Farrey and UFC President Dana White. On top of that, The Albany Times-Union is reporting that Bob Reilly (New York assemblyman) will preach his gospel on ESPN’s airwaves to keep MMA out of New York state.
Jake Rossen has an article detailing five of Dana White’s best decisions he has made as the boss of UFC.
Here’s a preview of coming attractions on the E:60 video piece on White:
“I don’t know of any sports leader who’s more polarizing than Dana White,” Farrey said. “But so far he’s survived and thrived. You’ve got to give him a lot of credit. He knows how to put together the fights the fans want to see, and he makes great use of promotional techniques to build up his fighters.”
In good press on the MMA front, Houston Alexander (who recently pulled out of UFC 98) is garnering good press attention for helping out an unsupervised little girl. As you could imagine, Houston is getting lots of attention in his home state of Nebraska.
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“I don’t know of any sports leader who’s more polarizing than Dana White.”
I don’t know about that. Every sports commissioner is polarizing to the hardcore fans. David Stern, Bud Selig, Roger Goodell, Gary Bettman, and all of those who came before them were all as reviled as Dana.
And he doesn’t have anything on the hatred felt for Don King.
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“Fedor’s fat”-Dana
“he makes great use of promotional techniques to build up his fighters”-Farrey
“Fedor’s Fat” is even funnier when you remember his interim heavyweight champion had a nickname of “Fat Frank” for over 3 years.
“The fights fans want to see”
I’m not sure Dana cares about that.
The raising of money for a reality show was a great job and a great idea. Other then that, I still think Dana is a mark for his own ego.
Nice to see that somewhere along the line, ESPN’s Tom Farrey fell for the Zuffa Myth: “He’s gotten in there and added enough rules to give it some credibility. He’s added weight classes which makes it more of a fair competition.”
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/mixed_martial_arts/2009/05/espns-tom-farrey-discusses-e60-piece-on-dana-white.html
Fact:
Before Dana White bought the UFC out of his own pocketbook, fighters could bite the genitalia of opponents.
Dana put a quick stop to that when he wrote the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts.
He definitely loves himself more than anybody else. But in an alternate universe where he didn’t convince Frank & Lorenzo to buy the UFC, who knows what MMA would be like in America. If the UFC existed at all, maybe it would still be the redheaded step child of the sports world barely surviving still. Maybe they’d be sponsored by Matt Hughes’s good friends at Rick’s Tire Barn instead of Budweiser.
Fedor is a role model for every fat guy.