Dana White Tirade

[VictorCharlie]

No he is an asshole..no argument there...but he is one guy in one org...I'm not going to make broad generalizations about a sport b/c of one guy. Who attacks boxing in this MMA forum? More importantly who has gone on the "Boxing" forum and bashed it? Your grasping brother. Both sports have millions of fans. The difference is you go out of your way to find videos of obnoxious MMA fans/fighters/commentators to justify your bias and post them in this forum. I'm pretty sure I'd stir up a shit storm if all I did was celebrate everytime boxing gave its self a black eye.

[El Kabong]

I go out of my way to post on the obnoxious personalities?!?! They are marketed that way man, Dana marketed "personalities" like he was the WWE.

Sorry Van, I try to like MMA but the personalities are too strong for me.

[Majesty]

Boxing, AND MMA, wish they could create the kind of atmosphere for some of their fights like WWE builds(with storylines and etc)

Thats why Dana white does what he does and etc, he wants a wwe like storyline going into a real fight, thats why he has the ultimate fighter shows with the wacky and crazy destroy the house guy that somehow makes it to the finals.

Because drama = ratings and if he can give the fans a wwe type show with actual fighting then he would bring in much more money.

Its all about money and entertainment. Boxing even made up a story between verno phillips and jc candelo last year for friday night fights trying to bring in the extra ratings.

As much as people bash the sports entertainment that is the wwe, there are a lot of combat sports that wish they could create that kind of atmosphere behind a fight.

[DaxxKahn]

Dana can be a bit over the top now and again but regardless of his questionable antics the man knows what he is doing and has helped the UFC turn into the phenom it has....

Love him or hate him you have to credit him

[boozeboxer]

I would bet money that boxing fans on a whole are more intelligent and have a higher socio-economic status. In fact, I bet it would surpise people with how wide the spread would be.

[VictorCharlie]

what an asinine statement...more importantly what difference does it make?

[El Kabong]

As great of a job as Dana White has done marketing UFC and making it a household name, he needs to step down IMO. Dana White is the Stan Van Gundy to the next Commissioner's Pat Riley....I think a new commissioner would use the current status of UFC to promote talent, skill, instead of just personalities and make the UFC a legitimate sports franchise (like the MLB, NASCAR, NHL, NBA, and NFL) and without the fear of it just being gimmicky or trendy or a "fad". In order for UFC to take the next step, I think Dana White needs to get out of the driver's seat...but that's just me. IMO he doesn't have the personality to do much other than promote or manage, but he has done a great job thus far in branding the UFC.

That's all I have, and I will admit that despite the foot stomping and grappling there are some good matches and very good talent in that group and at least their heavyweights come to fights in decent shape....we can't say that about boxing recently

[boozeboxer]

what an asinine statement...more importantly what difference does it make?

Yes my statements are stupid but:
You all were talking about who was better etc. in a half-ass silly way. However, intelligence and status are empirical things that can be calculated. This wouldn't be opinion and I think I am right.

[BullDogg]

Dana is a nut case and a asshole.

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