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Dana White is the current President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization. It is a Mixed martial arts event based in the United States. Mixed martial arts is a sport and fighting competition where the competitors learn one or more disciplines (such as judo, muay thai, wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, sambo etc.) in an effort to defeat the other fighter.
Biography
Born in Manchester, Connecticut, White grew up in Las Vegas and has a background in boxing and grappling.
After the UFC introduced many safety rules and diverged from its original showcase of no-holds-barred fights, White explained that the new UFC is still as close to a one-on-one street situation as one can get within the law: "there’s nothing fake, obviously, like pro wrestling, and it is the most hard-core, full-contact event in the world." He believes the UFC will eventually be bigger than pro wrestling and world boxing events. He alleges that the youth of today are growing up with mixed martial arts, rather than boxing alone, that they will not be satisfied with watching a fighter employing just his fists when he has many other weapons and skills at his disposal.
White is regularly seen on SpikeTV's reality show, The Ultimate Fighter (TUF). In each season, he brings in two weight classes of male contestants who want to become fighters in the UFC. Two seasons have been aired so far on Spike TV, with season 3 coming soon.
Source
- Wickert, Marc. 2004. Dana White and the future of UFC. kucklepit.com (mirrored on fighttimes.com).