Dana White faces calls to resign from his role as president of the cfu after a 2014 interview surfaced in which he claimed you can “never bounce back from getting your hands on a woman”.
White apologized on Tuesday after a video emerged of him publicly slapping his wife in the face during an argument on New Year’s Eve.
White, 53, has been married to wife Anne since 1996. The couple had three children together over the past 26 years as their net worth soared to $500 million with the development of the most popular UFC in the world. promotion of mixed martial arts.
But his position at the top of the UFC may be on the line now after a 2014 interview surfaced in which he reacted to a video of the former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice abusing his wife.
Lorenzo Fertitta, Teressa Fertitta, Anne White and Dana White (left to right)
UFC chief Dana White apologizes for slapping his wife on New Years Eve
Speaking to FOX Sports Live at the time, White said: “It’s tough. First of all the video is awful. Absolutely awful. You’re talking about a guy who’s been in the fight business since he’s 19. It’s the most unsettling thing you’ll ever see.
“What’s as bad as the punch is that he shows no remorse after he does it. You know, if you do something in anger and leave, Oh my god. That did I do? There’s none of that with this guy. I don’t know all the ins and outs of what Roger Goodell did or knew or how it was handled, but it’s is definitely bad. I can tell you this: I wouldn’t want to be Roger Goodell.
We’ve been human beings letting these guys, other guys make up for what they’ve done and come back. There’s one thing you never get over and that’s getting your hands on a woman. It’s been like that in the UFC since we started here. You don’t bounce back from getting your hands on a woman.
White and his wife were celebrating New Year’s Eve at El Squid Roe in Cabo San Lucas, where the music video was filmed. The footage shows White appearing to say something to Anne, who reacts by slapping him. He then slaps her before the couple break up.
Addressing the TMZ incidentthe cfu the chef said: ‘My wife and I were out on Saturday night New Years Eve. Unfortunately that’s what happened.
“I’m one of those people who says there’s never, ever an excuse for a guy to get his hands on a woman and now I’m on TMZ talking about it.
This is one of those situations that is horrible. I am embarrassed. We have three kids and since the video came out we’ve been showing the kids and focusing more on our family right now.
People are going to have their opinions on this and people’s opinions would be right, especially in my case. You never lay hands on a woman.
His wife Anne is quoted by TMZ as saying: ‘To say it doesn’t look like him is an understatement – nothing like this has ever happened before.
“Unfortunately, we were both drinking too much on New Years Eve and things got out of hand, on both sides. We talked about it as a family and we apologized.
White said he had no excuse for his actions and said he was “embarrassed” by the clip
White has been married to his partner Anne for 26 years and the couple have three children
White’s marriage has been largely hidden from the public, although his mother, June, wrote in a salacious 2011 book that he “turned his back on his family and friends who were there for him when he needed him. help and support”.
Dana and Anne reportedly met in eighth grade in Nevada, and although he travels back and forth between the Las Vegas area and Maine, the two were dating in high school before they married in 1996.
Their courtship came during a difficult time in White’s life, when he was dropping out of two colleges and working a series of low-paying jobs as an asphalt setter and working as a bouncer.
He would eventually open a gym in the Boston area, but would return to Las Vegas after being allegedly threatened by notorious mobster White Bulger and his associate, Kevin Weeks.
White – who has led the UFC since 2001 – previously said there would be no turning back for fighters who are violent towards women.
To this day, White says he doesn’t know why Bulger and Weeks felt they were owed money, but he took their threats seriously enough to return to Nevada.
“He basically said, ‘You owe us money,'” White said, according to NBC Sports. I said, “You owe us money.
“It was actually a guy named Kevin Weeks…he’s Whitey’s right-hand man,” White continued. ‘…basically said I owed him money and didn’t pay it. It went on for a while and one day I was at home and got a call and they said, ‘You owe us the money tomorrow at 1 p.m.’ I literally hung up the phone, picked up the phoned and called Delta and bought a ticket to Vegas.
Bulger would later be captured in 2011 and killed in prison at age 89 in 2018.
In the years since, White has admitted betting large sums of money, including losing $1 million on the Jermain Taylor-Kelly Pavlik boxing match in 2007.
“I was in Cabo, relaxing and having fun,” White said, as quoted by TalkSport. It ruined my fun. I ruined my whole trip.
He was also involved in a sex tape scandal, in which an exotic dancer allegedly recorded a sexual encounter between the two in Brazil. The dancer also claims that she and White had an affair during her marriage.
Her boyfriend allegedly used the alleged affair to extort money from White, leading to a criminal case against the man.
White was then sued by the boyfriend, who claimed White offered him money to plead guilty to extortion charges. White denied the charge.
According to the complaint, White gave the exotic dancer $10,000 to have sex with him, but the lawsuit was ultimately dismissed in October 2020.
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