Dana White: I give Daley all the respect in the world
ufc You guys… IT’S TIME! Turn on showtime You have to be shitting me!!!! Holy fuckin shit!!!!!! @Cparts6 to @danawhite…
ufc You guys… IT’S TIME! Turn on showtime
You have to be shitting me!!!!
Holy fuckin shit!!!!!!
@Cparts6 to @danawhite
Despite your “feelings” about Paul Daley how’d you think he looked early on. Was surprised to see him drop someone like Diaz. about 9 hours ago via web in reply to danawhite
@danawhite to @Cparts6
I give him all the respect in the world for that fight. They went to war!
On the Significance of Holy Fucking Shit
I had a scholarship to a competitive Prep School. A lot of the klds had famous fathers. I helped Henry Kissinger’s son with his double leg. David was tough and determined; he looked a lot like his pops. I had a crush on Henry Kissinger’s daughter. She did not look like her pops. One kid’s dad was the head of the FBI’s regional task force on organized crime. He said in an interview once that you could sum up the power of organized crime in three words – “I’ll kill you.”
I loved that, that you could sum up something vast and complex in a handful of words. I have looked for similar descriptions ever since. I was in a nudie bar once and a song came on and one dancer grinned knowingly – “Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll …” The greatest mod ever came up to me at The Arnolds and said “You know what the OG is?” There was a pause, and he grinned, and said “Digital Potato Chips.”
Lorenzo Fertitta did an interview with The Atlantic magazine – http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811u/lorenzo-fertitta He was asked “What is it about this sport now that is getting this audience under 35? I go out there, you’ve got 12, 13-year-olds to 35-year-old men and women, and they’re psyched. Is it because they were exposed to martial arts and different fighting styles when they were younger?”
Fertitta replied in part:
“… there’s the holy shit factor. Actually, they said ‘the holy fucking shit factor.’ It happens at every fight. At least one or two times in every UFC show, whether you say it out loud or you say it to yourself, you go, ‘holy shit did that just happen?’ I mean, you might see somebody do a flip, get kicked in the head, get knocked out with a punch. At some point, you’re going ‘whoah, did that just happen? Did I really just see that?’ That’s the nucleus of what our product is.”
I loved that, that you could sum up the power of the UFC in three words – HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
They say that life is just a series of stories. I have tried to be true to that, to do some things, some times, that are worth relating. I had the opportunity to grow up partly in Africa, a continent with its share of stories. I was in an open vehicle once, at night, listening to hyenas maybe seven feet away eating through a giraffe’s massive bones as if they were angel food cake. That was a Holy Fucking Shit moment. Actually, it was a Holy I Am Puckering So Hard I Will Not Fucking Shit For a Year moment.
When Rampage landed the Perfect Punch, i had the real loud thought “Holy Fucking Shit why is the camera not on Wanderlei?” When Dustin Hazelett hit that Arm Bar on Josh Burkman I thought “Holy Fucking Shit no one else could even demo a sub like that.”
I guess in some way I live for those moments. Last time I had it from Boxing was maybe in 86 when we were gathered around the TV at my place for an early Tyson fight and one guy, Matt, went to order a pizza and the fight ended in 19 seconds and he came back and we were shouting equivalents of Holy Fucking Shit and he thought we were playing a prank on him and the fight was still about to start. Football has a lot of Holy Shit moments, but Holy Fucking Shit, not so much, at all.
Next UFC you are watching live, that’s why, because at some point, two guys are going to tilt at each other, and we are going to gasp “Holy Fucking Shit.”
There is nothing else like it.