The UFC is currently a $11.3 billion behemoth. Dana White has been its president for decades. He started when the world had no idea what mixed martial arts was. White led the UFC to become a household name in the world. Dana White has a massive net worth of half a billion dollars and recently revealed the time when he rejected the deal to become the owner of a basketball team.
Dana White made an appearance on a famous show hosted by a comedian and revealed the times when he rejected several sports franchises for a rather peculiar reasons.
Dana White turned down the offer to buy sports franchises
Dana White has always been open on how he built the UFC into one of the biggest combat sports organizations in the world. he appeared on the show hosted by a famous comedian Andrew Schulz and revealed the time when he rejected the offers to buy several sports franahcises. He said,
Those kind of businesses (NBA) are like toys for multi billionaires. Multi billionaires buy these things so they lose money on them, when they die the family sells the fu*king teams. Cuban just sold you know he bought it for few hundred millions and sold it for few hundred billion dollars. I like taking niche sports that people don’t think work, and making them fu*king work.
Dana made it clear that he likes to be the underdog and make relatively lesser knownthings work. He bought the UFC when no one knew what martial arts is and made it into a multi billion dollar behemoth that it is right now in the world. He also started Powerslap and the company is one of the highest trending entities on the social media platforms.
White has been putting up some of the most entertaining evetns in the UFC this calendar year. This month two major PPV events are all set to go ahead in the octagon and the UFC is all set to conduct its first major event in Saudi Arabia. White is a legit businessman who has taken over the combat sports world in the past few decades.
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It will be interesting to see what new ventures Dana White will initiate in the coming years.
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