Dana White: “I was a better promoter than fighter”
Source | haroldsun.com.au
What about a favourite fighter? Surely every boss is a little bias?
I’m a bit bias, Chuck Liddell and I have been good friends since the beginning, since before we even owned this company. But one of my other favourite fighters is Anderson Silva. He is the pound-for-pound best in the world and I think he’s the greatest fighter ever in Mixed Martial Arts history.
And how about you, what turned you from fighter to promoter?
Because I was a better promoter than fighter. I woke up one day and realised I sucked as a fighter.
What’s it like being point of call for hundreds of athletes around the world?
Think about this right, I deal with 475 of the toughest dudes in the world, they all have egos, they all have agendas, so every day that I wake up there’s some bull***t going on. I deal with guys who make millions of dollars and some that make hundreds of dollars, but the one thing that always stands true is that they’re human beings. They’ve all got problems, family problems, there’s so many different things to deal with.