The night Dana White learned to talk his way out of a fight
Dana White: “We ended up kicking the $#!@ out of these guys out in front of my house. An hour later, the entire Valley High School was in my front yard.”
UFC president Dana White spoke recently with Megan Olivi for the new UFC Fight Pass series The Exchange. Olivi asked White about his childhood, which involved a lot of moving, from Maine to Vegas. The UFC boss said fights were common in the fight capital of the world.
It was a big school thing – schools fought different schools every weekend, said White as transcribed by MMAjunkie. It was crazy here.
These kids came over to my house on New Year’s Eve, and they were from Valley High School, and a fight broke out in my front yard, and we ended up kicking the s*** out of these guys out in front of my house. An hour later, the entire Valley High School was in my front yard, ready to kill me and my two friends that were over there. The police ended up coming and all the kids left.
So the next night, I’m laying in my bedroom, and my mom knocks on my door and says, ‘Hey, would you come out here for a minute?’ I come out, and every one of those guys are in my house. And I’m looking at my mom like, ‘You let these guys in the house?’ And they’re in my living room ready to kill me.
That was when I learned how to sweet talk. I sweet-talked my way out of an ass-whipping in my own living room.
During his time in Vegas White also made friends with a classmate named Lorenzo Fertitta, heir to a casino or two. Eventually White convince Fertitta and his older brother Frank to buy the UFC. The trio ended up selling for four billion dollars, the largest sale in sports history.