My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 19 - THE BEST OF DANA WHITE

Episode Date: July 29, 2019

In honor of Uncle Dana's 50th Birthday this weekend, Robbie put together a ‘Best Of' show full of hilarious clips from all of the interviews he's been apart of with Dana, from Pardon My Take, to My Mom's Basement, to KFC Radio, and included an extended cut of his Office Tour featuring never-before-heard audio.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Me, PFT, Roan, Frankie, we all said it before the show, it's the most fun thing in the world. If you were at Mulcagey's, thank you so much for coming out, it was a fun time. If you weren't there, if you missed out, we're going to be back in a few months. It was a really good time all around. Mulcagees was a great host. The people that showed up were great. It was nice to meet everyone. I met someone from the Seaford Fire Department that the man that I shout out the Seaford Fire Department who are apparently a bunch of huge stoolies. There you go. There's your shout out Seaford Fire Department. But I figured with a

best of episode putting together a best of what would make the most sense and i said it's dana white's 50th birthday on july 28th so if you're listening to this on release date it was yesterday i said dana is kind of a fan favorite among my mom's basement listeners he was our first guest ever he was uh maybe our first like repeating guest from someone outside the office, and it just all coincided really well. So I have on today's episode the first interview I ever conducted with Dana White, which I actually didn't conduct, I'm incorrectly speaking there. Pardon my take conducted it, and I was kind of along for the ride, they let me ask a few questions here and there.

I am playing that and the highlights of the first ever episode of My Mom's Basement with Dana White, as well as the second time he was on when we set up the office tour. Then I will play the audio from the office tour, but it'll mostly be uninterrupted and it has a ton of bonus content that wasn't in the office tour video. So if you listen, you'll hear us talking about UFC 239 a ton and a ton of other things that weren't in the video. It was a 27-minute video, and I a reminder, if you are not subscribed to this podcast already, I would appreciate it a lot if you did so, as well as leaving a rating and review. That helps out a ton. It puts us up in the charts, and maybe people will discover the show through that. On Friday, we will be back, Clem and myself, with the Nerd Corner, and we're doing an entire Avengers Endgame commentary track.

So buy it on digital tomorrow, Tuesday, and then sync up the podcast and the movie and you could watch it with us. It'll be a fun time. I think we're going to have a blast recording it. I think it'll be a blast to listen to. And I will talk to you then. Thanks.

All right. We now welcome on a very, very special guest. It is Dana White, president of the UFC. What's up? We also have Robbie with us, who is our MMA expert. So UFC 217. Robbie, why don't you ask a question about UFC 217? Let's get a little promo in.

So let me ask you, where is more animosity? In the main event between Michael Bisping and George St. Pierre, who didn't really know each other before this fight, or the former teammates turned enemies co-main event? Co-main event, 100%. Way more animosity there and, like, hardcore and deep and real. Do you think they, like, actually want to kill each other? Yeah, they are. I think it's more on Cody's side than it is on TJ's side, but yes.

And do you think Cody is justified in calling TJ a snake? That's personal. I don't know, man. There's two sides to every story, and then there's the truth somewhere in between. Good question, Robbie. Yeah, that was a good question. Diving right in.

So what does a good fight promotion look like to you? Is there sometimes where you're like, I don't have to do anything here? These guys can just hate each other? Or is there sometimes where you have to really get it worked up and get them to a labyrinth? No, it's always real. I don't try to fabricate or make anybody say or do anything. Has anybody ever told you you look like Anchorman?

I get a lot of different things, yeah. I get a lot of different things. The mustache is very prominent, yeah. Do you still want to beat up Darren Revell? Darren Revell? Darren Revell? He's a douche. You know, I'm the douche. I played him one-on-one in basketball, beat him 11-0.

Did you beat him 11-0? Yeah, 11-0. That doesn't surprise me at all. Domination. The guy tries to act all whatever. He doesn't have a coordinated bone in his body. He's a nerd. He's a total nerd. Big-time nerd.

So do you still like if you see darren ravelle in like a alley you like no one knows you shove him you give him a swirly or something in the alley too were you allowed to pick on girls when you were in school no it's the same thing it's like picking on girls yeah do you, is it ever hard being the president of like such a rough and tough fighting league and having a girl's name? No, it hasn't. It hasn't affected me so far. I've been thinking about it. So just, it affects me.

No, I don't. I don't. I would appreciate if you were like a Tony or like a Frank. I think the UFC would be better that way i actually do you might be right yeah i just like every now and then i'm like dana okay all right well all right so i have so robbie told me that uh there's actually one slot open for ufc 217 right is it yes okay yes so i wrote down a couple match-ups that maybe we could do let's talk you tell me yes or no.

Okay? Yep. We'll start with this one. Jon Jones, Brock Lesnar, steroids are legal. Ooh. People want to see that. Jon Jones, Brock Lesnar, steroids are legal. Maybe we'll fight on like a ship or something.

Right. You know, like international waters. Yeah. Maybe. That would be fun. Okay. It's not a bad idea. All right. What about you

versus darren revell and revell gets like a low grade taser like not something that will knock you out but something that will stun you a little you got to build up like a little bit of a you know still that one's still not fair okay all right give him a high grade taser yeah all right do you have any yeah i was just gonna say to say, you have an opportunity to make world peace here. What if it was Trump and Kim Jong-il? Trump and... That would be good. Trump and Kim, huh?

Yeah. Maybe like a chess match. An actual chess match. I like it. That would be fun. What about Butterbean versus anyone? Literally anyone. We just want Butterbean back.

Where is Butterbean? I don't know. I thought you would know. I have no idea. You don't have eyes on Butterbean? anyone. Literally anyone. We just want Butterbean back. Where is Butterbean? I don't know. I thought you would know. I have no idea. You don't have eyes on Butterbean? What the hell? You've got to take care of your guys. Butterbean isn't my guy.

Well, yeah, he's not technically your guy, but he's like all of our guys. Butterbean's a national treasure kind of thing. You know what I mean? We collectively have to watch out for Butterbean. What if you just had Brock Lesnar against the head of USADA? Against the head? Just some nerd in a lab coat and just let Brock Lesnar just go to town out for Butterbean. What if you just had Brock Lesnar against the head of USADA? Against the head? Just some nerd in a lab coat and just let Brock Lesnar just go to town on him. Yeah.

But the USADA guy has all his piss on him, so he can throw deadly piss on Lesnar. Okay, I got one last one. I think these are some good ideas. I got one last one. Steven Seagal versus 15 real beta male liberal limp dick guys who are like, no, we don't want to fight you. Did you see that George Foreman just called him out? Did he?

Oh, yeah. George Foreman just called out Steven Seagal. Make it happen. That's a fun one. Your dream. Your rainmaker. I would love to make that one happen. Okay.

Have you ever done DMT with Joe Rogan? Ever done what? DMT with Joe Rogan. No, I don't even know what that is. No, you've never done drugs with Joe Rogan? No, I don't even know what that is. No, you've never done drugs with Joe Rogan? No, I've never done drugs. Wow, nerd. Man card.

Wow. Yeah, I'm not a drug guy. I'm not a drug guy at all. Not a drug guy. George St. Pierre, who's fighting UFC 217, which will be in Madison Square Garden, he once said, three things that excite me are women, dinosaurs, and the violence of the octagon. Do a Mary Fuck Kill for that right now. Who said that?

George St. Pierre. George St. Pierre. Say that again. You give us the quote, Robbie. So he said, there are three things that excite me in this world. A woman, dinosaurs, and the violence of the UFC octagon. So Mary Fuck kill those three. Dinosaurs.

Pretty cool. We probably aren't sitting here without dinosaurs. Mary, fuck, kill those three. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you're George St. Pierre. No, you. You, Dana White. Would you marry a dinosaur?

No. Would you marry a dinosaur? No. Would you fuck a dinosaur? Wait a minute. What do you like more, violence or the octagon? Let me get on my game here and pay attention. You gotta sit up. Sit up here. This is an important question. Yeah, I guess you would marry the dinosaur. No, you'd kill the dinosaur. No, don't tell him how to answer this.

Fuck the girl. And kill the violence of the octagon? You would ruin your own sport. You wouldn't have a job. No, no, don't tell him how to answer this. I'm not going to tell you how to answer it. Fuck the girl. Yeah. Uh-huh. And kill the violence of the octagon? You would ruin your own sport. You wouldn't have a job. This is the weirdest fucking question I've ever been asked in my life. You answered it very poorly. Yes, very poorly.

You failed that question. What is yours? I'd probably kill the dinosaurs. I'd probably have sex with the violence and then marry the women. That's the correct answer. Yeah. women. That's the correct answer. Yeah. That's the correct answer. That's the alpha answer. You gave us the beta answer.

I married violence. Can't get enough of the barbaric human cockfighting. Yes. Give us, Robbie, give us another UFC 217 question. So, Joanna Young-Jaycheck versus Rose Namahunas for the strawweight championship of the world. Did you make those names up? No, I did not. Is that a promoter's dream for you?

Because either way, it's going to be an exciting fight and both are such likable like great personalities absolutely it's a great fight and they're both gangsters when it comes to fighting and uh i expect it to be a very very good fight and i think a lot of people underestimate the ground game of rose in that fight we saw it against Paige Van Zandt. She really bent her into a ball. Yes, she did. I like how you locked back into like you're actually doing press mode. Now you're back with us. Now you're back in the weird seat. Do you want to change your

kill answer? Robbie, you got another one? Yep. So Johnny Hendricks is fighting at UFC 217. He went from, in the span of a few years, unofficially beating GSP to missing weight a bunch of times, pulling last minute from a title fight, and he's won in four of his last fights. Where does the UFC stand with Johnny Hendricks? Well, you know, he's fighting on the co-main event of the Fox prelims that night,

and, you know, he won his last fight, so obviously this is a big fight for him yep big fight but if he if he loses is it time to start thinking about retirement for him i think so i i think i think he would have to start looking at retirement fun fun fact about johnny hendrix he his career peaked uh when i did a commercial with him reebok commercial oh really yeah and then he hasn't won since i don't think what did you you guys do? It was for internet only, so whatever. Not a big deal. It didn't go on TV, but you could see it if you went on YouTube. It was pretty cool.

I had a cameo, like a three-second cameo. What was the premise? I stole some shoes from a woman, and then he kicked me in the chest. Big Cat actually didn't know that he was in a video. He just stole shoes and got beat up. You stole a jacket. There you go. It was actually just a commercial for like World's Wildest Police Chases.

It was just Big Cat getting attacked by Johnny Hendricks. All right, Dana White, thank you so much. This was a lot of fun. It was worth the chase. And think about changing your name. What's your middle name? Frederick. Freddie.

Freddie White. Freddie White. are you kidding me it gets worse try it for a year see if pay-per-views go up and then come back and talk to me i will do it freddy white freddy white is like that's a that is a micromotor yes that is perfect yeah you're like one of the badasses freddy. Yeah, I like that. Freddie White. Deal. All right. Thank you, Freddie.

All right. Hey, it's Dana White. Hey, Dana. Just the guy I was looking to interview. Thanks for calling. No, pleasure. Thanks for having me. Absolutely.

How are you doing? I'm good, man. Good. Yeah, congrats on the new deal. Seven years as president of the UFC. Extended good, man. Good. Yeah. Congrats on the new deal. Seven years as president of the UFC, extended that contract. Appreciate it. Yeah. No, I'm looking forward to it.

We're working on a lot of fun stuff over here, man. We bought 130,000 square foot building next door and five more acres. So now we said the UFC headquarters sits on over 60 acres and we're building some crazy shit next door. That's incredible. And aside from all of that, aside from everything you've got going on with the UFC and as good a job as you do as the figurehead, I've got to tell you, the main reason I was so thrilled to hear that you re-signed for seven more years is because there's no president or commissioner of any sports league that chirps fans on Instagram quite like you do. It's unbelievable.

I just scrubbed through your Instagram comments and you're boom roasting people left and right. It's some of the most hilarious shit I've ever seen. I'm pretty confident that I've made more people go private than anybody else. I think so. All right. So it looked like for a little bit that Conor and Cowboy were in discussions. Cowboy and Conor were going back and and forth seemed like they wanted to do it and then we caught wind as fans or media whatever you want to call us that the negotiations had fell fallen through because the ufc wanted the

fight to happen as a co-main event and conor mcgregor didn't want that is there truth to that uh yes yes that that that that did happen um you know, but, but it's, it's not anything that every time I know that I'm probably the worst person to, you know, try to play devil's advocate against because I'm a fanboy and I'm a nut hugger, but I just have to understand. No, I love hearing other people's point of view on that. I interviewed with Kevin Aioli the other day and he said the same thing. Well, let me ask you a question. We were going to do, the fight that was going to be on the card with him was probably going to be the heavyweight championship. Should that be the co-main event? Should the heavyweight championship be the co-main event?

Yeah. I believe so, if Conor McGregor's on the card, yes. Boom. Well, there you go. Well, the more people I hear from the fans and the media and all this shit, if I end up putting Conor McGregor, not as a champion, on the main event, I guess I don't have to listen to any bullshit, do I? I mean, there is precedent for it in the past with Conor at 196 and 202. They're two of the top three of the company's highest selling pay-per-views, no?

Yeah. So if I didn't do it this way and everybody, you know, I just made the the main event with no title no nothing everybody would go fucking mental and go nuts and start chirping about you know you think so he gets favoritism oh 100 i don't know because but you did it at 196 with the title fight on the card a tremendous fight between misha tate and holly holm it was the first diaz fight yeah yeah yeah well you know why that happened he was the main event the fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know why that happened. He was the main event. The fight fell out.

Diaz went in last minute, and we kept him the main event. Yeah, that's true. Correct, but then it was rebooked for UFC 200. That kind of fell apart, and then you did it at 202. That was the main event with no title either. But he was the champion, wasn't he? He was, but it was a welterweight fight, so there was no title on the line. Yeah, but he was the champion.

He was the champion, and he was already the main event. All right, that's fair. That's fair. I was interested in hearing... Conor McGregor is not the champion right now. He's ranked number two in the world right now. Oh, God, you're rubbing salt in the wounds, Dana. You're rubbing salt in the wounds. He's not the champion.

Back then when he fought that fight, he was the main event. His fight fell off. On late notice, as usual with Conor McGregor, he takes another fucking fight and takes a weight class above him. That's right. He's a fucking savage, Dana. He is a savage. He's a fucking savage and I love him for it. And he was the champion.

So, yes, of course we're going to keep him in that main event slot. That's not the case right now. I just think if you're taking any advice from little Bob Fox here, I just think Conor McGregor, main event, always. Doesn't matter who's on. If you put every title you have on the line and Conor McGregor's not a champ, you put the champ champ in the main event. I'd like to play a little game with you now, if you don't mind. I call it goof or no goof. I'm going to rattle off a few names and you're going to tell me whether or not you think they're a goof. Okay. Darren Revell. Douche.

Douche. Whoa. Douche. Went full douche. I love that quote. What the fuck does Darren Revell know about fighting? That was a good one. The answer is nothing.

Have you heard from him recently after that? Or you think you just shoved him in a locker and he's been stuck in there? Exactly. I gave him a wedgie and put him in a locker and haven't heard from him since. Amazing. Ben Askren. Yeah, no goof. No goof.

No. Ben Askren seems to think that you think he is a goof. Ben Askren is wrong. All right. Fair. Ariel Helwani. Come on. That's a no-brainer. Dork.

Dork. Wow. So here's a story about me and Ariel Hawane. He hates me because I went and I got into the background of one of his shots for ESPN, and I was holding up a free Connor sign outside the courtroom, and they were trying to get me out of the shot. They couldn't do it. So he hates me. He's a jerk off. Listen, the last thing you need to worry about is that fucking dork hating you. Guy cried on TV for Christ's sakes. He did. You banned him and he cried like he had a terminal illness. Fucking unbelievable. His kids are going to fucking see that someday. Okay. Colby Covington. No, you know, Colby Covington is not a goof this guy uh i disagree he knows how to get himself noticed let's put it that way he's doing his thing he's doing his thing i don't like how he's doing his thing if we're being completely honest following you around casinos filming you

while you're gambling i stuck up for my guy uncle dan and that there and i was like get him out of the ufc kick him off the tour doug you man. But you know what? That whole scenario wasn't as bad as it actually looked on film. I stood up and said, what are you doing? And he turned his camera off. And I said, listen, man, let's not be an idiot. Get your shit together. Don't do this. Don't do that. You're going to get your next shot. So then the next day they got in a fight and they got banned from the Palms. Yeah, I saw that. Is there going to be any – does that affect at all your booking of that fight?

Or you don't give a shit about that? No, I don't give a shit. The Fertittas gave a shit, but – Yeah, I saw Ali was tweeting, too. Ali was saying, like, we're not fighting him now because he got into a fight with us on that buffet line. Well, listen, Ali doesn't make fights. I do, so – Fact. Boom-roasted Ali. Here's another softball for you. Oscar De La Hoya. us on that buffet line yeah well listen ollie doesn't make fights i do so fact boom roasted

ollie uh here's another softball for you oscar de la jolla fucking dork yeah another one is there any update on that you know we kind of saw you you and him went back and forth for a while and then you sort of declared war on him and you were like the people around here know me you go to war with me you're not coming back from war is there any update on that war hey when's his next mma event bro i don't think it's happening you got a date i don't think it's happening oh okay i think i think he's going under i thought him and tito were big business partners tito's talking about going to fight in embellitor again uh yeah exactly the dumb leading the dumber with those two. You know, we do. What a fucking dynamic duo those two are.

It's unbelievable. We know we do rough and rowdy. It's like amateur boxing. And we almost doubled their pay-per-view buys for that. Yeah, I bet. We're talking legends. Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz. We do 40,000 buys. They did 25K. Exactly. Maybe watch out for rough and rowdy on the circuit, eh? I'm watching you. Okay. I'm watching you watching you okay here's one that was in recent events george masvidal no goof what he did i i loved i loved what he did gangster not a goof it was total gangster shit yeah and i saw your response you had that you had the typical you put on your your dolly incident voice and you said i can't

believe it happened but i know in the back of your head you're like this is awesome no no that's not awesome that that's not awesome it was i was at nashville and i ran up into the octagon in nashville first of all there's no title fights i don't go near the octagon when there's no title fights i don't even wear a suit i'm wearing fucking jeans and a sweater, and I got to run up there and tell Willis and – Curtis Blades, yeah. And Blades to knock it off because I don't need that shit. We just had Conor and Khabib. Then we just had the stuff that went down in Australia with those two or whatever the hell they were.

I don't even remember. London. Yeah, London. In London with those two and and we that can't keep happening and i blame that on my staff that that shouldn't have happened and uh that can't happen again and curtis blades and willis were we're getting there at the end of that fight so they really were you need a little more muscle you give me a call i'll be honored to to come in there hold hold some people back um Apparently, we need you. Here's

a two-for-one deal, all right? Nick and Nate Diaz. They're definitely not goofs, but those two, you know, I don't know exactly what their deal is. I mean, I can tell with Nick. Seems like they drive you up a wall. But if you look at the things that Nick says and the things that Nick is doing right now, you can tell that Nick doesn't want to fight. Fighting is the last thing on Nick's mind. And Nate, I can't figure Nate out because Nate's at the top of his game right now. And I don't know if he doesn't realize, but I've seen it over the years many, many times. The decline is very quick.

When the window closes for an athlete, it happens really fast. And there's a lot of money out there to be made by Nate. And once that window closes, they'll never have the opportunity to make that kind of money again. Have you seen his post recently? He had a post on Instagram two hours ago. No. He posted a video of him training. He looks to be in tremendous shape. And the caption says the following. It says, Khabib's hiding scared because I slapped the shit out of him. Connor already got his ass beat twice. Where the fuck you at, Khabib? P.S. Poirier is a pussy.

He spelled everybody's names wrong, as per Nate Diaz. It seems like he wants to fight, but he just won't give you the call? I know. No, listen, we just called him. We called him with a fight last week, and it looked like he wanted to do it, and then he disappeared. Completely disappeared. And I agree. I've seen video footage of him training. He looks like he's in great shape, but I don't know what the deal is. God, I would love to see that guy back in the octagon, complete the trilogy. It seems like the time is right for it now. I got two more names for you on goof or no goof. Stephen A. Smith. No, I love Stephen A. Smith. Oh, so do I. I'm so happy you didn't call him a goof. I mean, he doesn't know what he's talking about with MMA, but I love that.

I think it's hysterical. That guy standing there and talking about MMA is some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen in my life. He gives it a shot, though. He does. He does. It's a fair effort. And finally, Max Kellerman. I love Kellerman, too.

I've been friends with Kellerman. Oh, come on. He's a goof. I've been friends with him for many years. He said McGregor wouldn't land a punch on Mayweather. Yeah, I know. Yeah. That's a goof been friends with him for many years he said McGregor wouldn't land a punch on Mayweather yeah I know yeah that's a goof move

he fucked that one up he fucked that one up big time yeah no he's a very good friend of mine for many years alright

well we're gonna we're gonna give him a half goof cause he gets a goof from me that's all the names I had for you

Dana it was a pleasure talking to you today it honestly was thank you so much for coming on the show, talking UFC with me. Hope to have you back. And I'm very excited for UFC Philly. Pleasure, buddy. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye-bye. Welcome back to the show. I am joined once again by the first guest we ever had on the show. He's back, ladies and gentlemen. That's right, the UFC president Dana White. Dana, how are you? I'm great. How are you? I am fantastic. I've been watching a lot of interviews with you recently, and you have a guitar in your office. And I'm a big music fan. I want to know whose guitar that is.

I have four. You have four guitars in your office? Okay, give me the rundown here. Is it white, the one you see? Yes. All right. The white one was Fleas from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and he wrote all over it and has all this writing all over it. Then I have two over here on the wall that are Fleas also. They're his bass guitars, his actual bass guitars, and they're spun by the artist Damien Hirst.

Then my other guitar is signed by all three of the Beastie Boys. I'm a huge Beastie Boys fan, and it's signed by them. Holy shit, that's cool. Your office looks like the dream office. You have, like, samurai gear and shit in there, too. People who come in my office, I literally have. And people don't see my whole office. I have a bar that connects to my office, and I also have a full gym that connects to my office. I have the baddest office on the planet.

If anybody out there thinks they have a nicer fucking office than me, I'd love, I'd love to see it. Jesus. I wouldn't listen. I don't want to invite myself anywhere. I would love to come to Las Vegas and take the people on a tour of that office because it sounds awesome. Anytime brother. Oh, we're going to make it happen. And finally, I promise you this. Your mind will be fucking blown. We got to have my people talk to your people and make that happen because it sounds amazing. It's fucking ridiculous. Yeah.

Get the people together. We can do it. We'll get the people together. One last question for you before we get you out here. A fun one. If you were a fighter, Dana, what would be your walkout music? Rage Against the Machine or Rage Against the Machine or the Beastie Boys. get you out here a fun one if you were a fighter dana what would be your walkout music rage against the machine or uh rage against the machine of the beastie boys you got a song you got a pick

any of them it doesn't even matter i feel like guerrilla radio you could pick different ones and a bad rage song does not exist okay i'm so with you there. I am so with you. Probably, I would probably walk out to what you want. What you want would be so good. Oh, wow. I hope somebody makes that. They play as you

in the UFC video game and they make some kind of what you want walk out for us. Dana, thank you so much for the time. As always, UFC 237,

Nama Yunus versus Indraj takes place this Saturday, like I said, May 11th, from Rio de Janeiro. You can get this fight only on ESPN Plus and I promise you it will be worth it. This card is awesome. Dana, thank you so much.

Thank you, my friend. Take care. You too. All right, it's Robbie Fox here with the UFC president, Dana White, the king of all goofs. You've been on my podcast a few times, and the last time you were, you started hyping up your office. And you said, you've got to come out,

you've got to check it out. It's the baddest office on the planet. Right. And we're here. We're in Vegas. We're in your office for a tour. So take the lead. Show us around.

So what do you want to see? You want to see artwork? I mean, if you look around, this piece over here, this represents war. War is obviously about killing with the knife and the gun. War is all about money. And in the clip are all the things

we kill for. The top one is oil. Second one is cocaine. Third one is gold. That's blood down there. Diamonds, religious symbols, and the seeds they make heroin with. Crazy. Those are all the things we kill for. And then this grenade too. Oh yeah, so the guy, the artist

who built this gun found out that I had it. He flew out here and showed up here one day and gave me the grenade. That's crazy. How often are people

showing up here just pitching you things? A lot. We were talking before. I saw the Conor McGregor conference room and the painting in there. I was told

someone just showed up and said, hey, I want to give this to you. Yeah, so all the rooms are dedicated to people who have had an impact on combat sports. And we had a Conor McGregor painting. And this guy shows up here right before a Conor McGregor fight and says, hey, I want to present you with something. And he's out at the gate and trying to get in. And usually they don't let people in. said let him in i want to i want to meet this guy i loved it i loved his painting and i ended up hanging that up super cool with the mickey mouse like giving the finger all over

it and then graffiti when we did the deal with espn he's the one that did those espn pieces out there the disney i noticed that and i was asking lanae as the same artist yeah so we commissioned him to do those pieces yeah that's awesome how how new is this office by the way how many years ago was this built this was built three years ago and how much input did you have as far as like the design of it how you wanted it so here's what happened so what originally happened was we started to build these offices then we sold the company in the middle of it yeah now wmeimg just puts up you know over four billion dollars so they start cutting back lots of company in the middle of it. Now, WME IMG just puts up over $4 billion. So they start cutting back lots of things in the office.

Then I went back and said, no, we're not cutting the things. We were building this in the first place. We're not cutting out the things that we're doing in my office. So we ended up building mine out even bigger than the original plans were. It ended up being bigger than what I originally planned for. That's like a big swinging dick on the table move. What happened was, you know, you had one office was mine, one was Lorenzo's, and one was Frank's. So Lorenzo and Frank's office went away. So I combined Lorenzo and Frank's office into my whole space now. Give me all of their offices. Right. So I took the whole space for myself. Good move. What else do we got?

These are real swords, real samurai swords from that era. This one is restored. The other one obviously is not. And they were his sword. Those were his over there. That is the actual samurai that own these swords. And when did you get these? Were these like a gift or did you get these? Were these like a gift, or did you go?

No, you know where I ended up buying this stuff? These from, you know, Rick from Pawn Stars? Yeah. Yeah, so Rick owned these swords. Wow. And he didn't want to sell them, but he ended up selling them to me. Do you know him just from being in Vegas?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I know him well. When cool stuff comes up, they know that I love weapons, and I i love anything martial arts so when that type of stuff pops up they call me i actually just bought two cannons from him that were a gift from the king of england to the king of ireland holy shit yeah i just bought those and uh that's crazy i have those in storage i don't know what i'm gonna do with them yet, but I wanted them And then you got a bunch of guitars like this guitar right here says love flea I assume it's yeah, we did that flea and Anthony Kiedis are both like part owners now. Yeah. Well, they're Obviously what the hell is sticking this on there? There we go If you turn it around flea did all of this

Have you ever seen them live a million times into a few live shows of theirs and they're incredible. Chad Smith is one of my favorite drummers of all time. I'll give you a little hint of something that nobody knows yet. Hopefully everybody doesn't get pissed off at me for this one, but do you know what I'm going to say?

So they might play in Abu Dhabi. So they're talking about having the Peppers play in conjunction with the fight in Abu Dhabi. Holy shit. So they're talking about having the Peppers play in conjunction with the fight in Abu Dhabi. Like playing at the actual event? Yeah. Wow. The tourism board is working on it right now to get that done. I wanted to ask you, and I've never asked you this,

out of all the celebrities that you've met that are fans of the UFC and stuff, which are the ones that really know their shit? Oh, God. Anthony Kiedis is the kind of guy, like the first couple of seasons of The Contender, he flew in for those. He flew in for The Contender series? Wow. He likes fights so much. He just likes watching fights.

He'll be there for the first prelim fight of the night, right? Yeah. And he wants to go out and sit in his seat and watch it. He'll fly in for Contender. He's flown in for The Ultimate Fighter before. I mean, that guy, that guy's hardcore. Did you see him mixing it up on the basketball court, getting thrown out of Staples Center? Yeah. Because he's like going back for the Lakers. I loved it. Such a cool move.

You know what's funny? So I'm a Celtics fan. Yep. So, and he and I have been friends for a very long time. So I walk in one time to an LA game against the Celtics and we bump into each other when we're walking in he's like he's like uh you're my friend but today you are my he takes his basketball very seriously he's not joking he's like dead serious yeah he got thrown out because he was like getting in someone's face on the other team and i was like i love that because that's what i want to do to people that connor fights i want to just get in their face beforehand and be like, let's go, man.

And when you go to a game and him and Flea are literally yelling the whole time. Flea was trying to hold them back from the court. Exactly. And Flea's usually the crazy one. It's true. Yeah, crazy. What do you got over here? So this right here, oh, this is my samurai.

Yep. I don't know if you saw that yet. That's him, the real samurai from the early 1600s. The guy from the Samurai Museum in Japan actually flew out and set this up for me. That's awesome. Probably very fragile. I'd never even go near it. Yeah, I don't touch it either.

This either. So this is a real saber-toothed tiger. And if you go out and you look at La Brea Tar Pits in California, they have a museum. And they have tons of saber-tooth tiger skulls. None of them are as nice as that. That's got to be one of the nicest in the world, right? Yeah. One of the nicest you'll ever see.

It's got the full teeth, the jaw, the skull is intact. It's a complete fossil. That's amazing. When did you get that one? I bought that probably, well, I got it in 09. So when the economy crashed in 09. Yeah, you just started buying. Well, what happened was these museums were all in trouble because they didn't have any money, you know.

So they started auctioning stuff off. And when I saw that pop up, I said, I got to get it. So I jumped on in the auction and I was literally it was the last bid I'm like I'm not going another fucking dollar above this I put in the last bid I thought I didn't get it

but I ended up getting it and it's like I'll never sell that no it's amazing I'll have that till I die yeah um

yeah and then this this is like this is like I am the UFC president hear me roar yeah I mean head honcho top dog king of the hill like this is like i am the ufc president hear me roar yeah i mean head honcho top dog king of the

hill like this is just like look how big my dick is i'm dana white it's an amazing painting this was made specifically for you i love that piece no that's a real piece what yeah that's a real piece of art that i that i bought i saw that thing and i loved it that's a real piece of art that I bought. I saw that thing and I loved it. That's awesome. Have you always been into the samurai stuff since you were a kid? Yeah, I've always been into it. See, I got size and tonfas and nunchucks and all this shit. I've always been into this martial arts stuff. Is that all martial arts?

Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. All right, what do we got over here? I'm a bass player, so these are obviously right up my alley. I love these. Yeah. So the two bass

guitars are fleas from the red hot chili peppers and they're spun by damien hearst the artist yeah it's a it's a piece that they did together and i'm a huge beastie boys fan and this uh guitar signed by all three of the beastie boys that's amazing too why don't you tell the story behind this if you can well this is my this is actually my of all the shit. Well, this is my, this is actually my, of all the shit that I own, this is my favorite possession right here. I told my wife and everybody else when I die, I literally want this thing

buried with me in my hands like this. So I'm a big blackjack player. I love to play blackjack. And I, I entered the first ever tournament. When was this? It was in 2010, July of 2010.

And they invited me to play in this blackjack tournament at the Rio. $250,000 winner take all, like 52 people played in it. And these are all pros. So we make it to the last table. There's five of us left. And this guy walks up to me and he starts saying, oh, I big fan this and that starts you know small talk shit then he hits me with you know how this works right and i'm like no how does this work he says we split it everybody that makes it to the last tables five people split the 250 i'm like yeah fuck that shit i came here to win this fucking thing when i tell you these people hated me they fucking hated me so at the last table they all played to beat me and i won the thing i won the whole thing and something out of a movie like out of all the

things you've done in your life that they can make movies out of i feel like that's another one that nobody probably knows about oh that's true it's crazy it was big man my people that were with me were going crazy and you know i've had some pretty i've had some pretty movie-like nights yeah at the casinos man i'm sure i had some pretty movie-like nights at the casinos, man. I'm sure. I've had some pretty good. That one over there, this is... So the Palms, when the Palms was owned by the Maloofs,

they had asked me... I beat them for $1.6 million. Casually. And then as soon as the Palms sold, the people who came in asked me to stop playing there. So I left. Yeah. Then it sold again can they can they like if they say that and you show up can they be like you're not playing here

yeah wow oh yeah like i can go there for dinner and stuff like that but i can't play that's crazy right that's kind of you gotta wear that with a badge there's a few places in town that i can't play yeah that i can't play at does it suck suck if you have a place where you love to play, and they're like, get out of here, you're banned? No. No? It is what it is. Blackjack's blackjack, yeah. Listen, the Vegas is all about losing, not winning, man.

They don't like people who fucking win. Yeah. So I beat them, changed ownership. They brought me back. The new ownership said, we want you to come back. I beat them for $1.6 million again. And instead of just asking me to leave the way that they did, they gave me this. It says it up there, $1.6 million prize money.

Undisputed blackjack champion, 24-0. Crazy. And this is a cool way to say, get the fuck out of our casino and don't come back, please. New ownership was probably like, fuck, we should have listened to you guys. Well, now the Fertitta's on it, so nobody's kicking me out of there now amazing yeah and then this too just as an mma like geek this is such a legendary trophy it's chuck liddell's from when he knocked out ovareem in japan yeah this so this is this is uh what they gave chuck from pride when chuck knocked out allistar ovareem and chuck gave me the trophy. Almost the original Maymac, would you say, in terms of just co-promoting and doing some kind of crazy things going into another realm?

Yeah, that's a good way to look at it. Yeah. It was the first cross promotion we had done with Pride, which they never reciprocated. I sent those guys over there and they were supposed to send me Sakuraba and Vanderlei and they never did. Yeah. I just watched the 25 Years and Short on that whole thing. I thought it was really good. Yeah, thanks. Yeah.

It's been crazy. And on this piece, I feel like we can't just like stand here and have this behind us without talking about it. I mean... So,

a really good friend of ours, mine and the Fertitta's, named Richie Sachs, called me up one day and said, I got you a gift. And I'm like, oh, that's nice of you. He says, send me a check for $200,000 and I'll send it to you.

And I go, what kind of a gift is that? And he says, are you in or are you out? I said, alright, I'm in. Sent him a check for $200,000. Here's a question. Will you give me $200,000? Will you give me a gift? Are you in or are you out? No, I'm out. Damn.

I mean, I just beat Dana White in a game of chicken, but I didn't get the $200. So I sent him $200,000. He sends me this, right? I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with it. Women come into my office all the time. My kids were little then, so I couldn't hang it up in my house, so I put it in storage. A few months later, we end up doing a fight in Japan. And another guy that we buy art from in London was there. And he says, hey, I heard you got the Iraqi Yakuza. What did you do with it?

And I said, I put it in storage. And he's like, are you crazy? So the photographer's name is Iraqi. That is a real Yakuza, Japanese mafia. And the tattoos tell the story of what family he's from. And that's his girlfriend. And he goes, that picture is worth $1.2 million. And I go, get the fuck out of here.

It's an amazing thing. I took it out of storage. It's like a heightened version of finding $20 in an old pair of pants. He's like, that's worth $1.2 million now. Nice. Yeah. So basically, Richie Sachs gave me a million bucks and more I mean yeah this thing's worth much much more than that now so awesome very very cool of him what do we got next

so in here this is my bar I mean you'd be lucky to walk into a bar in New York City and have it look like this so I use this for you know when we get deals done we come in here and we have we have some drinks. Toast to business? Yep, toast to business. Or we do, like I'll have the Celtics games on in here or whatever else it might be. Do you have a bartender on staff? Yeah, so not on staff, but we'll bring in a bartender, yeah.

We'll hire a bartender for the day. And we throw big parties out back here for the employees in the summertime. And we have an amphitheater back here. And we'll have, you know, bands play or whoever play. And then usually the after party ends up up here. Yeah. I could imagine. Of course, he's got the proper 12 over there.

Shout out to my guy. Every bar has got to have proper 12. They got to have it. You can't have a bar without proper 12. Just a good looking bottle too. Just a good looking bottle. Yeah. I'll be ablelooking bottle, too. Just a good-looking bottle. Yeah. I'll be able to drink that tomorrow.

Finally, for the first time. How come? I'm going to be 21 tomorrow. Oh, shit. Happy birthday, man. Thank you. A big one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hopefully, Connor will send me a bottle of proper. What else do we got here? Come on this way. A little weird. We got to go through my bathroom here. All right. Let's get Dana's bathroom here. Everyone needs to see what it looks like.

He's got two separate ropes. Why do you need two ropes, Dana? I don't know. I don't really. I literally never use those. You've got to use two ropes, yeah. I never use them. But I'm not running out of ropes, that's for sure. You see that?

Yeah, that's awesome. Isn't that cool? Yeah. Wow. It's supposed to be marble. Morons, yeah. Look to your left. That's even cooler.

Wow, very cool, yeah. Can't put that on camera. Not suitable for work. Do you remember who that is? No. It was the first Victoria's Secret model ever. Yeah, I wouldn't know that. Come on. And this is my gym. I mean, you got a mini performance center right here. Yeah, this is my

performance institute. Yeah. With the quotes on the walls, don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage. Yep. I took all the guys that are on the wall, all the guys that I admired growing up. You got Tyson.

You got Bruce Lee. And there's a ticket there. Were you at that fight? Lorenzo was. Oh, wow. Lorenzo went to that fight and brought me that back. That's awesome. Muhammad Ali over here and even Arnold Schwarzenegger over here.

And I have all my favorite quotes from them. But this right here, this Bruce Lee quote is literally the quote that I've lived my life by my whole life. I love this quote. And this quote's everywhere. It's here. It's at my house. It's everywhere. Yeah.

You might as well, if you live your life by it, see it all the time. Remind yourself. Pilates over here? I'm getting old, man. I got to do the Pilates. I started Pilates like three, four months ago. Nice. How do you like it?

It's good. As you get older, you got to work on that flexibility. I never cared about flexibility before. Yeah. So this is the gym. What do you got these clocks for how often you're like i wonder what time it is in london all the time so because we do business in all these different places oh so you're like what if i gotta call so-and-so yeah no we literally in the morning

yeah all right fair yeah because what i usually have to do is say you know we do we do business in london we do business in uh uh sao paulo we do business in rio we do business in sydney like a shanghai one soon yeah you're right yeah this was this was before shanghai but yeah this is uh these are all the countries we do we do business in that's awesome this is my kitchen decent decent so the chefs come in here in the morning. They cook breakfast and lunch, and then I eat dinner at home. Come in here in the morning. I work out, eat breakfast, shower, and right into the office. That's like your everyday routine?

Everyday, yep. Now, we got this amazing picture from UFC 189 over here, Conor McGregor. Isn't that badass? I got to ask you, when do you think the next time we see him in the cages? Yep. Now, we got this amazing picture from UFC 189 over here. Conor McGregor weighing in. That badass. I got to ask you, when do you think the next time we see him in the cages? Early next year. I've been hearing before the end of the year. I talked to Coach Cavanaugh the other day, and he thinks that they're going to get something done. He's like, I would like to see Conor in the cage as soon as possible.

He's like, I bet he fights this year. He said he'll 100% fight in the UFC again, which made me happy. Love it. Cool. There you go. You have more information than me. Cool.

Clip that and play it over and over again because that is a great sign-off. Isn't that a cool GSP picture too? I love that picture of GSP. Yeah, it's amazing. I love when he used to walk out with the whole gi and everything. Me too.

That's straight martial arts, like old school martial arts. I agree. So I didn't miss a fight. I went to every single fight for like 12 years straight. And I'm old, man. I can't travel the way that I used to.

So I built this room. And basically, if we have fights in Rio, we have fights in London, Germany, Australia, whatever it might be, chances are this is where I am. I run the show from here. So this room is connected to the truck anywhere in the world. I literally drive 20 minutes

from my house, the guys cook dinner, and I run the whole show from here. That's awesome. All I gotta do is talk and they can hear me in the truck. Do you have like your spot, like the dad's spot? This is my spot right here. Chair? Yeah, this is where I sit. Yeah. And then everybody else that comes sits on the couch. Who do you usually have here? Like friends or business people? Head of production, Craig Borsari, because if I don't travel, he doesn't travel. He goes if I go.

Yeah. Matchmakers come in here. Okay. The one that isn't there. One will go, one will stay. You always have a matchmaker at the fights? Yeah. Interesting.

I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. So other than me, the next most powerful guy at the fight is either Mick or Sean. Okay. Those are the guys that are going to make decisions on what's going to happen that night. And they're always coordinating with me and in touch with me. You got me, Sean, Mick, and Hunter, who's our lawyer. Okay. So us four are the ones that make the decisions fight night. What's happening,

what's going on. We want to make sure the medical team is taking care of somebody like Ben Askren. Okay. Oh my God. We want to make sure that they do above and beyond medically for Ben Askren to make sure that everything's not that our medical team doesn't do that. They do. We just want to be there to be on it too. Of course. How crazy was that? You were out in the arena for that, I assume, right? Oh, yeah. That was one of the craziest things I've ever seen in my entire life. I couldn't even process what was happening because when, who was it? The referee, whoever it was, was pulling them together and, all right, we're ready to go. I thought back to the Darren Till fight when Masvidal ran at him and he, like, kicked him in the cock right away. And I was like, I wonder if he's going to try to run at him again. And by the time that thought went through my brain, Ben Askren was knocked out.

Right. It was crazy. Absolutely crazy. The way that he set it up, too, he started walking slow, like, coming out. With his hands behind his back first. Yeah. And the video of him doing it at the PI 48 hours beforehand. Insane.

So you know what I heard? I heard that for 25 minutes before he walked, he was in his room working on that knee. It's crazy. Did you see what Dustin Poirier was saying about it? No. Dustin Poirier said he went out to dinner with Masvidal's coach and his coach was very nervous and he's like, he's going to throw this flying knee in the beginning of the fight. We don't know how it's going to go. And as soon as he throws the knee, Dustin Poirier actually tweeted the DMs of him telling him that just so people knew it was no fluke. Crazy. They're saying the guys

who are in the back from the commission and from my team are saying 25 minutes before the fight it's all they were working on with the Mets. Unbelievable. It reminds me of when Conor knocked Aldo out. There's the video of him in the locker room throwing that short hook. Crazy. Crazy stuff. It's brilliant. When you study a guy,

what do you think Ben Askren's going to do? He's closing the distance. He's trying to take you down. You think Ben Askren's going to come out with a flying knee? Yeah. No, he's going to come out and try to double leg you. Yeah. Crazy. I've watched it probably a thousand times since it happened because I just still can't believe that it was real life.

It's brilliant. And then also that card had the Rockhold Blanchewicz fight. It had Holly Holm and Amanda Nunez. I enjoyed the main event a lot. The crowd was blown, but I thought it was very captivating. Very tactical fight. Yeah. Exactly.

And the heart displayed by Santos. The crowd was booing, but I thought it was very captivating. Very tactical fight. Yeah. Exactly. And the heart displayed by Santos. Yeah, on one leg. Had one leg and was still using the leg to kick. It reminded me of Yoel Romero and Robert Whitaker. Sure. A lot, yeah. It was a great fight.

Great fight. I think so, too. Yeah. Imagine if Engano was still on there and Sugar Shane O'Malley was still on there. Yeah, I actually spoke to Sugar Sean earlier in the week. We smoked weed together and did hypotheticals. Oh. Hypotheticals. Beautiful.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good stuff. That's funny. Yeah. All right, come on. So these are every fight poster from one. Wow. All the way around here.

Wow. That's really cool. I was actually just, we just had a tour of the Performance Institute with Forrest, and I was asking him if he had a favorite tagline from an old UFC. I loved how all of them were the super fight or the showdown or this, that. Do you have a favorite that sticks out in your mind of like a title? I've never really thought of that, but no. A lot of legendary ones.

So what goes down in this room? This is, so let's say we have, I mean, we've had everybody in here from the governor to, you know, things like that. Yeah. If we're having, normally we eat out there, but if we want something really private and intimate, we come in here. Yeah, it definitely looks like a big, like, I mean, I feel like not rich enough to be in this room right now. All right. So where I'm going to take you now, you've toured this thing. Beautiful. All the rooms are unbelievable. This is the shittiest room

in the entire place, but it's the only room that matters in this place. It's literally the heart and soul of this entire company. What a pitch. Let's see it. Let's see it, Dana. So, this is probably the ugliest room here, but it's the only room that matters. This is, if you think about

our business, right? We have video game business that is incredible. Yep. We have a deal with Reebok that's incredible.

We have, you know, my man representing. Did that on purpose. Love Reebok. that's incredible. We have, you know, my man representing. Did that on purpose. Love Reebok. And there's lots of gym businesses, another billion and a half dollar business. The list goes on and on of all these ancillary businesses that spin off. None of those matter without this room right here.

Without the fights. Without this. The fights are the key to everything. They're the core of our business and what we do. And it's the one thing, there's two things that I focus on every day. Finding new talent, building fights, and our production.

Two things. What? You said there's two things. Oh, I did? Yeah, yeah. I should have said there's a few things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a few things that I focus on.

Finding new talent, the fights, and the production. In-house and on live television. And as long as you stay focused on those things, you just can't fuck it up. Everything else flows at this point? Yeah, because everything's been built, correct? So these are fights that are coming and still fights that we're building, right?

Nice. Over here is every fighter in every weight class in the top 15. There you go, the rankings. Over here are the places that we're building right nice over here is every fighter in every weight class in the top 15 there you go the rankings over here are the places that we've been the gate and the people that have shown up in the rest of the the rest of the year these here are the guys who fought on the first season of the contender and who won and what numbers they pulled so when i'm making a fight i can look sean o'malley pulled 3.2 million viewers. Holy shit. In his fight on the Contender Series, right? That's crazy because now he's obviously a very recognizable name for you guys, but on

that, all he had was the video package he played right before his fight. Look at Hooper. Yeah. Almost 3.2. He's right there. Look at Yusuf. 3.1 million. Marquez, 2 million.

Insane numbers for the Contenders. These are the numbers that these guys pulled. I assume it's doing well this season as well. Huh? Yeah two million. Insane numbers for the contenders. These are the numbers that these guys pulled. I assume it's doing well this season as well. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I take these guys, I put them on the contender series and that many people have seen them fight before they ever come. And those numbers don't include O'Malley's fights in the UFC. Of course. Yeah. So when I look at these guys, right. And I look at Shevchenko, right, the sister, right, she did almost a half a million viewers. So I know where to put these people on cards. Makes sense.

Okay. And how hands-on are you, like, are you in here with the matchmakers all the time, or do you come in here by yourself sometimes? Both. I'm making this fight. Yeah, no, I won't do anything without the matchmakers. Okay. We do everything together. As a team, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. There are days that I come in here and I'll look and I'll go do anything without the matchmakers. We do everything together. As a team, yeah. Yeah, yeah. There are days that I come in here and I'll look and I'll go, we should do this fight. Then I'll call everybody in and say, here's what I'm thinking. Yeah, and I don't want to ask you for the typical journalist thing of like, who's next in this division? I just want to ask about the welterweight division really quick. Because it seemed like a few years ago, it was not drying up, but there weren't as many contenders. And now you're like overloaded with contenders. And that's become one of the deepest divisions you guys got. not drying up, but there weren't as many contenders, and now you're like overloaded with contenders.

And that's become one of the deepest divisions you guys got. Well, I think with the welterweight division, when you have a guy, so you could say the same thing about the middleweight division. Yeah. When you have guys that are that dominant, Anderson Silva, George St. Pierre, and you had guys that dominated like that, it makes the division seem...

Yeah, exactly. I'm a huge flyweight fan. I know it's been in limbo before, but I think the flyweights fly, never die, is. I'm a huge flyweight fan. I know it's been in limbo before, but I think the flyweights fly, never die is what I'm sticking with. But if you look like you were just saying, the welterweight division, you got Usman, who's the champ. You got Woodley, Colby Covington, RDA, Masvidal. You know what I mean? And so many of these guys have what seems like rightful claims to the title. It's just a juggling act, I assume.

And this thing will change. Yeah. Tomorrow. Because... Tomorrow the new rankings come out. And Robbie Lawler's about to fight Colt Covington. And RDA has a fight coming up.

Pettis, you know. Edwards. Yeah. All good stuff. That's also a hell of a fight. Edwards and RDA. Yeah, the division's stacked. And the middleweight division, too,

is nasty. Middleweight's crazy. I mean, lightweight is always crazy. Lightweight's the deepest you guys got fight, Edwards and RDA. Yeah, the division's stacked. And the middleweight division, too, is nasty. Middleweight's crazy. I mean, lightweight is always crazy. Lightweight's the deepest you guys got, probably, right? Yeah. And then over there, those are the fighters that have two fights left on their contract that are ranked. Aldo shouldn't be on there. He's just signed a new deal.

But then all these other fighters over here are on the last fight of their deal. So we have to decide whether we keep them or let them go. These fighters? Yeah. Okay, I see, yeah. And then how have you guys felt about like one championship Bellator seems that like they're ramping up trying to get more talent when you guys are looking at, all right, so-and-so's on their last fight. Are you like just concerned about the UFC and what they do for you guys? Are you ever thinking let's keep them away from another organization? No, I don't ever really

think about that. I mean, if you look at the Contender Series, right? And I'll give you an example. The kid from England that I didn't take the other day. People were giving you a lot of shit for it. Everybody was up and off. Then I just made him the hottest free agent on the fucking planet. Right? If I'm wrong.

If you think I'm wrong and you think that i fucked up and you're from another organization he's the hottest free agent on the planet yeah i just built that kid up i think nobody was talking or thinking about that kid till he fought and i didn't sign him yes i i will say i think what people were trying to give you shit for was the explanation that he went for the takedown i assume it was more than that that, the reason you didn't sign him. But people seem to grab that quote from you and just blast it. Right. Yeah. Sure. I mean, you know how the MMA media is. 100%. Yeah. They're idiots. Yes. And speaking of which, actually, this is a great time to present you with a gift. You invited us very graciously to your office. So I said, we got to get a gift for you. I didn't know what size you were. So I had two sizes made, but here is a, from Barstool sports

to you, some shirts we had made for you. This is the fucking truth. And I will wear this shirt. Did you see this? Oh, babe, you're going to love this. He just said that on Saturday. I know. And when you said it on Saturday, I was like, thank God. Oh, you didn't make this after Saturday? No, we made this last week. Get the fuck out of here. We made this last week, yeah. That's incredible.

I mean, Ravel has always been back and forth with us as well. He's an idiot. He is an idiot. Listen, the one thing. The Amanda Nunez stuff, I went back, I argued with him about the Amanda Nunez stuff. The one thing that you have to know about Darren Revell is he likes attention. Of course. And that's how he gets it.

Do you see this fucking goofy fucking idiot running 20-yard dashes and shit? We actually had the video of that, and he was upset with us because we broke his own video before he did. No way. So, pardon my take, our most popular podcast is number one sports podcast in the world. You've been on before. Yeah. Hired an intern to basically

just cuck Darren Revell of all his reporting. So he's doing all of the advertising reporting. He's doing all of this and they're building a big audience for him. So they're kind of trying

to do a rival thing with it. It's very funny. That's incredible. And he is getting very upset about it. I love it. He is such a dickhead. This is the greatest

fucking gift ever. I will wear this. This dickhead deserves this shirt. I love it. I'm glad you like it. And it's true. It is true. What the fuck does he know about fighting?

Nothing. Nothing. And for him to say that Amanda Nunes isn't a star. And isn't marketable. It's like there's so many factors about her. I mean, watch the fight. That's marketable. That's the only fucking thing that matters.

And then put it on top of it. She could be such a good ambassador for the LGBT community. She could be for Brazil. This, that, the next thing. I mean, I could go on and on. But we should stop giving them the attention he wants. Exactly. But yeah, it's fucking crazy. Listen, when you talk about marketing a fighter, there's only one

fucking thing that matters. What happens when they fight? Yeah. She's beat every big fucking star there ever was. The only problem for her is she's beat everyone. And she knocks them out. Yeah. What woman knocks other women out? Nobody like her.

Very, very rare. The only one like her was Cyborg, and then she went and knocked Cyborg out. That's exactly right. Insane. Absolutely insane. This fucking guy knows about fighting. Wow. A lot of people would disagree with that. No, sounds good to me. All right. That's about it. You've taken us through everything. I got to tell you, as advertised, the best office on the

planet, Dave's office, my boss at Barstool, you would be ashamed. I mean, it kind of looks like this room, but I swear to you, it's probably about the size of this little corner. There's no windows. He was very upset about that. When the new office got built, he said, do whatever you want. And they just didn't like even ask him about anything. So when he sees this video, he might be ramping some things up in the Barstool office. I'll tell you that. But how old is Barstool? Barstool, 15 years. Oh, is it really 15? Yeah, since 2003. It started as a newspaper that he used to just go hand out in Boston. That's incredible. Yeah.

I love Barstool, and congrats on all your success, you guys. Thank you. And you too, man. I appreciate it. You've taken off quick. Good for you. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

All right. Awesome. Robbie, you're finally turning 21. I know, right? Fucking hilarious. How about you being in the position you're in at fucking 20 years old? Pretty cool. Speaking of millions of dollars,

we've got to now talk to this is a man with many millions of dollars. He's the best. The best commish in the game. Dana White. We're talking UFC 240 and all things MMA. Bob Fox about to join us. Let's talk to commish. Yeah, definitely. Dana, it's Robbie.

On the brighter side of things, your birthday's coming up this weekend, and I wanted to ask you if you had... That's brighter? It's definitely brighter. What are we, like 35 this year, Dana? I would imagine a guy like yourself has had some crazy birthdays. So have you ever had one of those crazy celebrity birthday parties that has a guest list where you're just blown away by the names on it, Shaq and all those guys? I would say my 40th birthday was like that. My 40th birthday was pretty crazy. Stone Temple Pilots played at my birthday.

I mean, what the fuck? That's what I knew I was getting from you with that question, the Stone Temple Pilots. How does that even unfold? Are they like, you know, is that a favor or is that a paid thing? Or is it just like, yeah, we're all boys, we'll just do a set for you? No, my wife put together my 40th birthday, and it was incredible. It was a surprise, and she totally got me, surprised me. I had no idea.

You know, I thought we were going to go to a dinner or something, and some of the usual suspects would be there, but the level this party was, and it was so badass. Right up to Joe Rogan going up on stage and giving a speech and then introducing Stone Temple Pilots, because I shouldn't even say on stage, they didn't have a stage. It was all, you know, curtained off. So it didn't even look like we were in a ballroom and didn't even know there was a stage there.

And all of a sudden the curtain, uh, drop and Joe Rogan goes, don't temple pilots. Oh man. It was fucking incredible. I mean, that's,

that's pretty tough to top years before he died. Yeah. I mean, that, that is, that's going to go down in history, but I am looking at the other celebrity birthdays from, uh,

July 28th. And, uh, it looks like soldier boy also shares a birthday with you. Oh, shit. Along with Lori Loughlin, a couple people who have been. So listen. Those are two people I think who are literally in jail right now. If you want to have yourself a birthday, though, maybe get them out and you can have yourself a time, man.

Hell of a trio. It should be a hell of a fight this weekend, though. We appreciate you calling in. Don't want to take up too much of your time as you are the busiest, best, and savviest commissioner in sports. I said you were today. Would you say so? I don't know. I don't know, man. Listen, when you look at, you know, everybody shits on Goodell.

I wouldn't take Goodell's job no matter what they're paying him. No? I wouldn't want that job. 40 mil, man. 40 mil a year? Nah. Keep it. The shit that that guy has to go through on a daily basis and, you know,

and all the different, you know, egos and personalities that he has to deal with on so many different levels from players to owners to GMs. That's a job, man. Oh, yeah, like you don't know anything about managing egos, Dana. I got to get off this call and talk to Conor McGregor and Khabib. Yeah, you don't know anything about that. Listen, I love this sport.

I love what I do, and I can't even imagine not doing this. And, you know, so when i talk about other leagues i i don't know the daily shit that they go through so for me to judge them i can't but the fact that you even asked me that thank you i appreciate it and uh i think it's you or adam silver but like i mean you'll call us up and you'll say fuck i don't think i said fucking his whole life you are so many men you know you know exactly how to appeal to the to the regular guy out there. So I'm going to give you the edge. The humility for not taking it. That just makes me want to give it to you more.

Yeah. You know exactly what you're doing, you son of a bitch. You know, it's all we appreciate it, man. Everybody go make sure they get the pay-per-view this weekend and we'll talk to you soon, man.