i'm in the middle of the digital computer the middle of the hey folks this is dennis miller dennis miller plus one today's guest u.f.c. president dana white will talk about the recent u.f.c. $249.00 odyssey and its natural cancellation and then also the birth of the sport where it stands today all that as i said with u.f.c. president dana white and dennis miller plus. a folks welcome to dennis miller plus one of our guests today well i would say arguably since pete roselle got the n.f.l. on the map to a large degree i don't think anybody spahn showed a professional sports franchise like this guy he took something that was well

a great idea that perilous barely registering in an odd way and has turned it into one of the most valuable interesting exciting franchises in the world i'm talking about u.f.c. president dana white dana how are you my friend i'm awesome body are your get good i i know it's been a interesting fortnight for you i assume you've been sleeping for the last. is a strange trip that is u.f.c. $240.00 night. yeah vast week was very interesting and. you know basically i could put on the vent on this saturday night in california at the taj palace and you know the media went crazy. government officials went crazy and they eventually got a hold of the powers that be and me to to stand down and not do this and that. well you know i have the feeling that the powers that be and the media.

i think they probably played less a part with you than your partners and then you're a businessman and i also think that you know how you are valuable your franchises now and you don't want to this merchant in any way but there's always going to be naysayers but i guess at some point of disney and he s.p.n. and the top people that each give you a call and say brother were in business together you got to make a call and you made it right 100 percent if you give it what the media thinks. then they don't control which way i go whatsoever i they literally don't matter at all. it was e.s.p.n. and disney yes yeah so it was at the the native american reservations near fresno right and i guess at some point the vigorish for having a reservation is you get to make the calls on that reservation i guess you'd worked

out some sort of deal with the tribe not just for this event the saturday night that would have happened but for the next couple months till the country gets a ceiling again right that's that's right if they stood their ground and did this event with me i promise them that when we go back to california they'll be the 1st event that we take to california so we're going to be at the taj palace. you know in the more california when when this thing's over that's going to be our 1st trip back shit that you know what i'm i take every of that back to lemoore california toci palace when this thing's over for the for her stand by me. well i know god i know brahman guys from boston value it when somebody makes a commitment and sticks with it i have a feeling you have a lot in their area about that and also a long memory for people who screw chill along the way so yeah good for them they can stand to the extent that they could the w w e's going to do some of the vents out of florida which sounds remarkably like

this in a pristine sort of petri dish and that they've been all given the go ahead by the powers that be and i guess you ran up against any any thoughts of doing something done the road after the our folks near fresno down in florida were like you i gave my poor friends over at e.s.p.n. the weekend off so that they could they could relax after last week and then i hit them yesterday again with a date i'm going to go may 9th so i'll get going on a card right now in the office now working on a card for may 9th get a card set up for this saturday and i know there are people who watch this it don't know it like some people do but there's a cat named could be one of those eastern block monsters who wears a hat like you know the cap from the mamas and the papas used to wear when they're on the sullivan show one of those back with a fur hat and he was going up against tony ferguson for you know no toting for isn't his folks 'd the guy makes to kemah tumbles elbows look like smurfs this guy

is a he throws hard he will cut you up it was a crazy exciting bout the p.b.m. had to bow out even before the powers that be sat on it because he got stuck right in a corner teen over a new his all at such a case yeah so what happened is you know everybody knows how this played out but is as this thing started to progress and we got to where we are now we would literally do a bunch of work and the world would change overnight while you know we'd wake up the next day and all the rules would change again. so. hubby bent it up getting himself into a situation where he got shipped back to russia it wasn't he didn't want to do it it didn't it wasn't his choice it was what happened so you know it was nobody's fault we all made some mistakes leading up to that because we didn't see the future and what was going to happen. but you know what are going to do now many going to

do the the degree of certitude on the other side of this argument that everybody knows we're going to shut down it you know i'm not certain of my guesswork i guess to be on that side of it anymore to be honest nobody knows this thing the sinks the oddest thing that's happened in my 66 years on the planet when an ass kicker from iraq coming out dana figured out a way to maybe go ahead with it with a skeleton squad of all volunteers and something that debbie debbie he's now going to do quite frankly and you know i only say that because i think of that as more like the ice capades and u.f.c. surreal sport and not you know mcmahon's always treated me nicely over the years but i'm just saying that's a show this is a sport so the 2 different thing right but the fact that this is going forward in the u.f.c. is very frustrating to a lot of people they when when he could not jump in they brought in this young kid who is just unbelievable good for kids good for him for justin for jumping in at

the last minute right yeah no doubt but both guys for accepting the fight with all the circumstances that are going on it's tough for guys to train in and you know a lot of unknowns who just trusted me and said all right man who hope will train we don't know where this fight is going to be it we don't know how this is all going to go down but we're in. a really appreciate it respect my guys and it's one of the reasons that i've been fighting so listen at the end of the day. you know and i don't mean to say this in an arrogant way or anything like that i don't need to do this ok i can go home and quarantine myself too and just sit in my house and build these things over and you know and ride this thing out but but i built that way and i have a commitment to my 350 employees that work for me and expect it you know get paychecks and take care of their families and my over 600 fighters who also have to

take care of their families now instead of hiding from this then my point thought process is always like let's get out in front of the this and we beat it how do we you know figure out the solutions to these problems that's the way that i always think it's the way that i've always thought and. you know and i appreciate the fact that obviously my employees and my fighters do appreciate that and they stood their ground with me and they were ready to go out and perform so. in this whole thing i think what the fans and the fighters have found out is what we always really knew the media sox ok the media is full. there are a bunch of liars and they only care about themselves me my father my mom my fighters my employees and my fans have all sort of you know this is sort of

a real cool bonding experience where you can find out who's real and who's not. yeah the bunker men in the bunker friendships built in the bunker you know it bothered me about the naysayers then and i know there's a lot of guys out there whose rice bowl is to chip away at guys who have you know power a sport or make money it's just the way we live and the right now but i didn't like it when they said that they were being frivolous about it i always said she says now i think this cat's as serious as a heart attack about the way he does business and every time i've gone to one of that it's locked down and i know you take carrier thank you that must a bothered you particularly when you heard him say he's being completions share yeah so all that you know that i don't care about the health and safety of the fighters is all we care about this does didn't just pop up with the coronavirus with health and safety in this sport is something that we look at every day and take very seriously and the reason that we have the track record that we have in our track record is nobody's ever died and there's never been

a serious injury in the history of the u.s. state if because we spend the money to make sure that these people are safe. and you know that the media is what it is it's it's always going to be that way and it's not it's not getting better it's getting worse. last week i'm going to give you an example i didn't exist i didn't interview with it with a guy named brett okamoto from e.s.p.n. and i told him that he's the only guy i did this interview with i told him that i was and i was i was in the process of securing an island and we were going to do. you know fights on this fight i'm in and i had to do international flights there because we can't get international people into the into the country right now and if i need to invite only in the u.s. i'm going to smoke all the u.s. talent and we're not going to have enough people to fight i need my international talent pool to make this thing work. people start writing stories off that story

and then i was hearing that u.f.c. $249.00 was going to be on the island and i just bought. at no point that i'd ever say anything like that people don't give me if they're right they take this they just write basically whatever they want and don't care if it's true or not nobody ever calls the fact checker any of this type of stuff i mean just straight up lines people were just you cannot believe anything that the media sense and for whatever creepy reason these guys have even people that cover our sport they did not want us to 49 to happen no matter what just because they didn't want it to happen and they felt like they could have the power to stop it. that's what the media is economics you can see why dana helms the sport why his fandom is 'd loyal to him and that's why it's sold for well go back and look at the sale i think it's north of 4000000000 with that sort of money i thought the island he bought might have been

manhattan hey folks will be right back to talk about you have seen the bigger picture right after this with dana white you have seen president on dennis miller plus one. market which i think is a great market to give an indication of where prices are where they're heading the fine art of something big and in other auction houses has gone up dramatically over the past 10 or 1520 years spectacularly so it's not reflected in the price of bread . and now it's starting to be that way so that inflation that we saw in the high end products is down going to end up being in the staples like wheat bread the food chicken i just saw somebody post a image of a chicken for sale somewhere that price was 100 percent.

thinking of getting a new puppy once we got in here she broke off as he didn't know what to do he was trapped in this tiny little wired we don't use a crate with him he will stir freaking out into the wall when it's pretty much anywhere near him thousands of breeding dogs are caged in the interview lane conditions on puppy farm i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in cages

outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the funder nothing they have no protection. you. get 2 kids. across the u.s. cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and still most of the puppies are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even joined a group businesses are involved like cargill among some to there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to efforts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding facilities most of that opposition is coming from agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with dogs don't buy dog. hey folks welcome back to dennis miller plus one our guest today i broke at the all

black 4 because when you go to fight he and rogan make johnny cash look like he dug pastels i mean it's absolutely crazy. broke out the. the day daylight present the u.f.c. we're talking about 49 but i want to talk about the sport just in general where it's such an interesting tale day in a row it really is a american success story no wonder you're so big on the american scene what sort of state do you find the saying at the beginning tell tell me about stumbling across i know you are a boxer how do you find u.f.c. where do you and what your steps. yes so so me and my partners the fertitta brothers we we grew up together and lorenzo and i had always said we wanted to do something in the fight business and. we started one night frank his brother and i were at the hard rock hotel and casino in vegas and there was a u.f.c. guy there named john lewis and we saw him and frank said i've always wanted to learn ground fighting you know jujitsu and i said well i know they got one over we

started talking to him and we set up a lesson for monday at our offices and. we started taking jujitsu him became addicted to it and fell in love with it and john lewis started to bring some of the u.f.c. guys in to train with us and we were blown away how smart these guys were and and you know all the stigma that was attached to the u.f.c. at that time you know it was all bullshit these guys were actually really smart good guys with families and not what we expected so i started representing tito ortiz and chuck labelle at the time and through that i got a huge contract battle with the old owner bob meyer which over tito ortiz his contract and one day he flipped out on me and said there is no more money i probably don't even have an open enough money to put one more event on and i was like damn we hung up the phone and i called the fertitta brothers and i go i think the u.f.c. is in trouble and i think we can buy it and i think we should and we started the

negotiations and a couple months later we own the u.f.c. for $2000000.00 but at that play you almost get the 3 letters and some beat up chainlink fence octagon right i've a little bit better there's a not a real infrastructure at that point was that's literally all we own those like 26 contracts and an old wooden octagon and those 3 letters you have see which really hadn't even been trademarked or protected at that time. now you move it up till today and folks i'm telling you it is a world wide event and when he talks about those fighters if you ever watch one of these $24.00 seventh's about these guys there are some authors system there man there are hard roads travelled there are guys who have been saved by this forget they were always worried about people dying there been people burst again in that octagon man the commitment broke let's take this fight that just didn't come off to be business face again he's probably the best in the world right now but quite

frankly his thing is to get you down and he is just on you forget it it's a straight jacket the guy's a genius on the mat he's like dan gable when he used to wrestle in college and then there's the strikers tony ferguson more like that coming in with the elbows and the kid who is replacing him quite honestly i mean i would love to see compete but this fight was going to be a bloodbath between gates here and ferguson right dana yeah yeah very very violent fight that was going to be. were just trying to figure out how to make a fight happen still you know so these guys can both. get this thing on the belt and then the winner will be ready for up be when you know he comes back hopefully in september or october or whatever the hell is going on with the stuff at that point in time but what are you looking at matt i know you said you're going to give disney and have believe me i grimace feel like the chino and godfathers 3 trying to get out and they keep pulling back in all of a sudden uyghurs been called it again because everything's the thing and. how what

would you look for may 9th which you would which are you don't want to tip your cards or anything but would you be looking at could be even ferguson or would you be looking to gauge in ferguson or would you be looking at a wholly different card. yeah you can't do a b. because it's ramadan now so he's a he's a devout muslim so ramadan is going on he's out till september october so yeah i mean gauging in ferguson is a fight to make it's such a good fight to the top ranked guys in the world. and like you said it's a very violent fun fight so. you know i would like to make the fight again but i'm now one of my 4 cards back now. i've had to postpone for these cards so i have nothing but talent right now i'm going to build an unbelievable the best card ever made like the 1st prelim of the night you're going to go holy that's the

1st pretty woman and i did all the crazy for it up to the many different. if i see if i sink conard he is anywhere but at the top of the times. this is the system you know martial arts they get a history of the planet earth if god is not out there that last flight that you know you've got to give it to serenity i mean nobody is more of a gamer and a history of the game that serota get i mean the guy's won i believe for buyouts but i'm telling you gonna be greater came in that night there's just 7 guys who throw sparks off right dana soon as i looked at him that night and he looks ready to preen man and he just killed him right off the bat. yeah unbelievable performance i mean everybody was questioning you know where it was at with all the things you've been through he's been off for a long time you know how is he going to look and he looked damn good yeah.

we're talking today in a way you have seen president we when we said we're going to talk to dana we got a boatload of social media questions let me lay a few on here and trust me i have a cursory knowledge of u.f.c. in that act but i listen i never miss about and ever miss pay per view a tragic goal i read a lot about it there are people who are dug deep on the u.f.c. and they all showed up for questions here robbie jackson on facebook will call b. and tyrone be a fight for u.f.c. 24900 returns. listen. people say stuff publicly you know i want this fight i want that fight you know people are calling each other out . but it doesn't mean that that they necessarily want to certain fight so it doesn't always you can always listen to what you hear people saying that they're calling this guy out of that guy out listen obviously that's a great fight to make i make that fight the minute i'm telling i think rogan is on

a leave a ball for a guy like me who doesn't know it all a guy who makes you feel like you're in a man's sport you know that you know who knows it who lives that life i think grogan's 10 out of 10 for you. is incredible leaf he i actually credit him for part of the success. that the this sport has had because when you listen to rogan think about this when we bought the company the one thing that was going to be the hardest part to explain a breakdown to the casual fan to bring them in is the ground game and rogan is so good at breaking down the ground game while it's happening he's 2 steps ahead of where they are actually in the fight and he's telling you this is what's going to happen next and then he's going to go over here and he's going to do that and after a while people really understand and get the ground game broken his and the other thing about rogan is. when you listen to him talk about the u.f.c. and when he's breaking down a fight you know he just not

a talking head who's getting paid to do this this guy loves what he's talking about is knowledgeable about it and it's just his passion comes through in every. every broadcast of us yeah plus he gets jacked up for man when somebody says i mean you know you do hear that wow when but guys long for that cave wall drawing stuff and rogen and plus after the match nobody makes me laugh harder than when somebody is going off at a completely just south endorphin driven thing and judges defense of the life it sort of leans back and he's laughing because some of these guys get so crazy after the match it's just an added a little blast all right indeed barry on facebook said i would be curious to get this there i would be curious to know if he feels the u.f.c. fanbase has diminished and more and more fights are pushed to pay per view subscription sites what are its thoughts on the streaming services would he ever

think about creating the ultimate fighter series again we have $3.00 questions there streaming is a got it's simple fact is streaming syria what are you going to do go back to you know c d's are 8 tracks a tear or are. exactly sure emus hear it and what's crazy is if you think about this pandemic that is going on right now it has really been massive for streaming i mean everybody we're streaming right now i mean you know how many people are going to live on instagram and all these other things and disney disney plus just just hit 50000000 subscribers and the list goes on and on listen streaming is here we were one of the 1st ones to jump into it and believe in it and it's been fantastic for our business and long term i always had this just disclose all in this dream that i would build this this were. it is asian to be a global sport right it would be a time in a day when the whole world could watch

a fight at the same time on the same channel and we're getting closer and closer to that now. it's about to happen and i love the things that we're doing right now with e.s.p.n. and and they've been incredible partners to us and i'm looking forward to the next 5 years with these guys jeff house and thus when they call a few days out and said brother were taken heavy in coming here we've got to move 'd this you do it is the business we have chosen we didn't spend it had the life you have fire with data why present the u.f.c. let's wrap it up with sam cohn on facebook asked i'm interested to see this what sort of memory it is what's your favorite us you have seen memory of all time and. and the other question that i had about the ultimate fighter the ultimate fighter is coming back we're working on the right now so i think at the end sounds like great then you can trace back up people. just just igniting their dream that it was

great to watch very exhilarating. i love every minute that of that of being a part of that experience now in my greatest you have seen moment it's so hard to pick one because there's been so many when you take a company from where this thing was to where we are today there's just so many incredible moments and you know our 1st a 1st time back on on paper view our 1st time on fox our 1st time on e.s.p.n. . you know so many milestones breaking i thought we think about all they had were whites and. events that have happened at madison square garden we finally get into new york and destroy the all time great record at madison square garden 80000000 dollar gate and the closest thing to it is 11000000 so i mean i could go on for days with amazing milestones. my favorite moment recent i was in vegas

for a fight tom brady walked in it's like literally the man walks in goes up to mark davis and hugs zoom and a hairdo thunderstorm breaks up between the 2 diverse affronts. the next i knew it was big then too and the next day every story in the world was about brady go into the al and i said they have arrived everybody is watching what's happening ringside there and you run a hell of a hell of a blot mad you're like rick in casablanca then i appreciate your time i'm so happy for your success you've always been a mensch and if i'm if those people are watching from that reservation in fresno sorry i'm blanking on name trust me this guy i'll bring it there he doesn't deliver false false favors like that ticket she holler everybody. right there you go anyway thank you dana. miller plus wonder if she appreciated.

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greetings and salutations with the crazed and cowardly unabomber that really was and now in custody in the political and news media hawks back to their usual tough talk and pass the buck blame games where does that leave the rest of us talk watchers well for starters and leaves us to pick up the pieces and try to sort out all of the crazy of this last week and we know and as we know this week gave us some very serious crazy and now the question is what drives all this crazy we are currently witnessing.