Dana White still wants to bring MMA in Toronto and New York, but make no mistake about it, this weekend is right up there on the list of his career more satisfactory results. White, joined by UFC VP Marc Ratner and brothers Fertittas, has helped build the mixed martial arts in a sport accepted in most us His native area of Boston Gets his first glimpse of UFC in person with 118 UFC Saturday.
He is returning to its own terms something he didn't get to do in 1995. White argues his move to Las Vegas, where he reunited with his friends from high school, the Fertittas, was not part of the plan.
"... a day in the summer of 1995, while he was at the Centre of teaching a class at the Boston Athletic Club in Southie, two men walked and told him he had to go out with them, says white had, by mafia Ireland.
"The details of what went down were a little cloudy, but was the bottom line: you owe us some money," black told the Boston Globe. " I don't know why they were [expletive] with me, what the real reason was, but to come after me and bust my balls and try to shake me down was a bit strange.They wanted a couple grand from me ... and I said, ' no. ' they said, "get it from your girlfriend."I said, ' She hasn't, o. ' they said, "well, better figure it out.""
A couple of weeks later, his phone rang. the caller told him that till Sunday to pay them, he says, "or we'll kill you."
Triumphant return of white in Boston as a multi-millionaire is something that he never expected after being forced to leave the city.
"When you talk about things like the fate and [expletive] that happens for a reason, if there is proof, then what is?" said White."What are the odds that a child who is riding [expletive] mountain biking around Southie, teaching housewives and businessmen and children as a box, is about to be rocked to the point where he is like, ' this [expletive], I am out of here, ' and leave?
"And then," He adds, suspension, "happen this [expletive]".
It's nice to see that the Globe and the Boston Herald are spreading White's story and the increase of UFC sports casual. whenever the history is written as promotion hits new cities, we always seem to be unveiled a new nugget. it is interesting to hear Bill Baker from Globe speak absolute control of white over promotion.
So not only white leading promoter and creator of deal; he is also, with its fighters, judge and jury. in the past, he has met with some fighters during their remuneration (stars can do more than a half million for a fight; newcomers can make as little as $ 6,000, with another $ 6,000 if they win) and the amount of control has throughout their careers (UFC has no classification system; white organizes the struggles that he thinks that the fans want to see), and that he does not hesitate to cut loose a combatant. on the flip side, white is famous for distributing discretionary bonus for fighters that really throwing down (that he says he went up to one million for a single fight) and welcomed back fighters that once feuded with him.
Enormous discretionary bonus entries are ventilated for years. listen to white give a number is a little unusual. Any guess who got a million?
Ever heard the name of Antonio McKee? Not have more casual fans of mixed martial arts. The 40-year-old man with a record of 24-3-2 has never achieved the bigs or gotten exposure you feel it deserves. Part of the problem could be that the artist takedown, which has not lost since 2003, has turned in decision victories in battles 12-of-14. So McKee is pulling out all the stops to get eyes on her next fight saying that if he don't end Luciano Azevedo on September 10th, he will be retired. McKee of FanHouse said Ben Fowlkes: