10 Things You Didn't Know About Dana White
UFC president Dana White is one of the most recognizable, and most important figures in MMA history. White helped guide the UFC to success in the early s and hasn't looked back since. His boisterous and sometimes divisive personality has led to him having loads of fans, and also loads of detractors who would love nothing more than to see him gone.
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However, despite him being a figurehead of the world's largest MMA promotion for over twenty years at this point, there are lots of things that fans still don't know about the UFC president and chief.
10 White Used To Be A Boxing Coach.
Before Dana White was the president of the UFC and promoting massive fights, he was actually a boxing coach. White got the job after dropping out of college, and it was mainly due to his experience of having been a boxer in his teenage years.
For what it's worth, White wasn't any Freddie Roach type. He was mostly a boxercise instructor more so than an actual coach, but it is a fun little piece of trivia.
9 He Was Run Out Of Boston By The Mob.
While Dana White was still re
Dana White: Age, Height, Wife & More
Dana White
Dana White is the head honcho of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the world's biggest mixed martial arts organization. He's been with the UFC since and is credited with turning it from a controversial underground competition into a mainstream sporting giant. White has become a celebrity promoter with his fiery personality and success with the UFC.
The sport of MMA and the UFC wouldn't be where it is today without Dana White. He is the president of the UFC and has run the company since From all the work behind the scenes to being the face of the company, White deserves all the fruits of his labors.
Let's take a closer look at who Dana White is as a person and his life's journey to where he is now.
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4 The Childhood Of Dana White
Where And How He Grew Up
- Born in Manchester, Connecticut in (age 55)
- Raised mostly by his mother, June, and her family with his sister K
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On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with lifelong martial artist, former UFC and Battlecade Extreme Fighting matchmaker, TV commentator, and our senior correspondent, John Perretti.
We spoke with him by Skype Tuesday Japan time (Monday New York time).
John Perretti's fighting career mainly focused on kickboxing, where he took "a lot of damage," and also included competition in karate and taekwondo, as well as rigorous training in grappling, judo, and wrestling, he said. This resulted in "16 verifiable concussions" and a few more "accidental" ones along the way.
After he had retired as an active fighter but still was training and coaching, at about the age of 40 he started having cognitive problems.
He illustrated what this meant for him: "For myself, that was the real beginning of not knowing where I was, even though I was probably feet down a driveway in the Hampton Bays, and getting lost, I mean physically lost, and having to pull the car over and not know where I was for an ho
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