Dana White

Whatever you think of his bluster, I respect what Dana White actually built. He took an organization treated as a banned sideshow and willed it into a global sport with unified rules, mainstream stars, and a billion-dollar media footprint. That requires more than loud opinions; it requires decades of obsessive, unglamorous deal-making. I do not always enjoy his combative public persona, but I suspect it is inseparable from the product — the UFC sells confrontation, and so does its chief executive. As a study in pure promotion, he belongs alongside the great showmen of any era.

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Name (English)

Dana White

Name (Japanese)

ダナ・ホワイト

Reading

だな・ほわいと

Born

July 29, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Manchester, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

High school

Hermon High School

University

University of Massachusetts Boston

• Official sitehttp://www.ufc.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/danawhite/
• Xhttps://x.com/danawhite
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20White
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q660297

Tags

• Connecticut
• entrepreneur

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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