dude, your link fu sucks…two links, no dice…
this cat joined on 5/19/08, posted four thread, apparently all about mmayou.com
all dead links
all are exclusive interview of big name with an unknown site, blah, blah
sound like someone was pumping another site via KFM
[QUOTE=Oso;863235]dude, your link fu sucks…two links, no dice…[/QUOTE]
Their site keeps crashing. They even have a notice up now that they are switching servers etc…
their main page isn’t even coming up
[QUOTE=Oso;863302]their main page isn’t even coming up[/QUOTE]
Not sure why. It is working for me.
Here is the link, relax Oso:
http://mmayou.com/news-and-exclusive-interviews-with-mmayou/37-fighters/174-kimbo-slice-responds-to-dana-white-and-chuck-liddell
??? where’s the page ???
http://mmayou.com/news-and-exclusive-interviews-with-mmayou/
http://mmayou.com/news-and-exclusive-interviews-with-mmayou/37-fighters/
http://www11.charter.net/search?qo=www.mmayou.com&rn=bs9Nerw4MjqF8UE
[QUOTE=kungfufan;863341]Not sure why. It is working for me.
Here is his response (can I post full interviews on here?)
MMAyou.com: That’s awesome. Speaking of your opponents, are you fighting Mike Tyson next? There’s been rumors about it.
Ferguson: I don’t know about that dude. We’re gonna keep that one on the hush-hush.
MMAyou.com: (laughing) Alright. Is there anyone you’d like to face right now?
Ferguson: Nah, I’m just… I don’t want to call anyone out cause to me that’s kind of rude, you know? To just assume you’re gonna kick someone’s ass. You just gotta be prepared for a battle, you know what I‘m sayin? That’s what it’s all about. One on one. Two guys getting in there and it’s a real life chess game.[/QUOTE]
They also had an interview with Kimbo Slice and Jet Li:
Kimbo Slice: I learned everything I know about fighting from watchin’ yo movies, Jet.
Jet Li: I can tell. You’re techniques is straight out of wushu, homes. Straight up. You beat Tank Abbot with a move I did in Fist of Legend, right?
Kimbo Slice: I did. It was friggin’ sweet.
MMAyou.com: You’ve gotten some criticism in the press from Dana White and Chuck Liddell. Do you have a message for Dana and Chuck?
Ferguson: Yeah, I love those guys. They’re great guys. I’m a big fan of the UFC. Chuck is one of my great fighters. I love watching him fight, I love his performances. I love what Dana White’s done for the sport man and if it wasn’t for those guys I wouldn’t be where I am today. I thank God for them and God bless them.
Dana goes off on paying Petruzzeli
sounds like Dana’s bodyguards might be earning their money for real.
Dana
He’s always been very opinionated about a lot of things. It’s good he still has a sense of good business practices and ethics.
wtf!?!
I was channel surfing last night and what do I see?
NBC’s ‘Momma’s Boys’ gets interesting: UFC’s Dana White and Tyler Florence booked
Bet Seacrest’s mom is a tough customer too… - Ryan Seacrest - 2nd Anniversary of
Bet Seacrest’s mom is a tough customer too… - Ryan Seacrest - 2nd Anniversary of “Radio Lollipop” with KIIS FM & CHOC - Childerens Hospital of Orange County, CA - Orange, CA © Dean Kirkland / PR Photos
By April MacIntyre Dec 8, 2008, 20:03 GMT
With this bit of news, now I am really intrigued to see where Ryan Seacrest’s new reality show is going.
UFC president Dana White and Tyler Florence, chef and star of the Food Network, are booked to guest-star on NBC’s new dating series “Momma’s Boys” (December 16 premiere).
The show is “girlfriend vs guy’s Mother” premise, as three overly loving mothers help their complacent (lazy) sons choose the perfect woman.
By the way, there is no such thing, right?
White will guest-star in the series’ two-hour second episode on Monday, December 22 (9-11 p.m.) and Florence will guest star in the third episode airing Monday, December 29 (10-11 p.m. ET).
NBC sent over the future episode descriptions.
MOMMA’S BOYS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22 (9-11 p.m. ET)
In the aftermath of the women’s face-off with Mrs. Bojanowski, they must now take on their first suitability challenge. White and some of the UFC’s top trainers and fighters put the 32 women through a demanding physical challenge as the Moms look on to determine which of the young women are the best mates for their sons. The competition is fierce and the four women who win the challenge are exempt from the boys’ first elimination.
Unfortunately, I just caught the very end of the segment so I didn’t see the training. That’s got to be the stupidest show of the new season.
Thanks Gene
Good interview. Thanks for posting it Gene.
Dana White speaks his mind, and is blunt as hell. I think he’s done a great job turning the UFC from a bunch of semi-organized street brawls, into a genuine sport with true athletes. To compare him to Don King is inaccurate IMO. It should be obvious that Dana has integrity, a quality Don King is devoid of. I’m interested to see how long Mr. White’s “my way or the highway” attitude lasts as the amount of money the UFC generates continues to grow. I think anyone who invests as much of themselves and their own money into something deserves whatever success comes their way. Now if Dana could just get a fighter from Kentucky who doesn’t perpetuate the “drunken redneck” stereotype. Word is Junie’s BS was planned, but d*mn dude…you couldn’t have found a better way to get attention. lol 
The UFC was purchased by the brothers, not Dana. Dana was just the guy who approached the brothers advising that it [the purchase of the almost defunct UFC] would be a good investment. He didn’t produce the capital. As a byproduct, he owns 10 of the franchise and the 90% goes to the brothers.
He’s the face of the UFC…and is making a lot of money. I think that he is a ***** in terms of how he treats some of the fighters, but at the same time some of the fighters are thinking they’re worth more than they are. It’s hard to know what happens behind the scenes with all the he said-he said bull****.
Bigger than NFL
Dana always has interesting take on things…
Dana White talks 2020
UFC president looks ahead to another decade of growth for mixed martial arts
By Brett Okamoto (contact)
Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009 | 4:03 p.m.
The following was pulled from comments made by UFC president Dana White during a conversation with the Las Vegas Sun.
This last year was a big one for mixed martial arts.
The sport was just sanctioned in Massachusetts and Vancouver. We’re going to get it done in Ontario in New York in 2010. We’re working on taking the UFC global. We’ve already done Germany, England and Ireland and we just sold 22,000 seats for an event in Australia in 15 minutes.
That said: Las Vegas is the Mecca for fighting.
Between the UFC and our sister company the WEC, the economic impact fighting has in Las Vegas is astronomical. And I’m from here. I lived in Boston for awhile, I love it too, but the reality is I’m from Las Vegas.
Every time I walk through the back of the MGM Grand or Mandalay Bay, valet parkers and waiters will stop me and say, ‘Dana, thank you for bringing the event here this weekend.’ That’s when these guys make their money. We bring a lot of people into town for these events and we bring them regularly.
People were saying I was a lunatic 10 years ago, but this thing is going to be the biggest sport in the world. The stuff we’re working on right now on so many levels is mindboggling.
The reason I say that is, think about this. Right now in the United States, there is nothing bigger than the NFL. It is huge. But the NFL has been spending billions of dollars trying to break into other countries and it’s not working. You know why? Because these people in other countries don’t care about American football. They didn’t grow up playing it and they’re not invested in American teams.
I take two guys and put them in an octagon and they can use any martial art they want — that transcends all culture barriers. Right now we are on some form of television in over 175 countries. We’re all human beings and we all get fighting.
The UFC will be on network television by 2020, but we’re not going to go out and do a stupid deal because we don’t need them. We built this thing without help from anybody and that’s why the UFC has been able to flourish even in these hard times.
The greatest challenge is time. There’s not enough time in the day to do all the things we need to do. That’s basically the toughest part. And throwing more bodies at it isn’t the answer. Me and Lorenzo Fertitta will sit down and figure out a game plan for the next 10 years and we’ll execute it.
Moving forward, the Fertittas have already shown they’re willing to put their money where their mouth is. When we were about $20 million in the hole, Lorenzo called me one day and said he couldn’t do it anymore. He told me to get on the street and figure out what we could get for this thing. I called him back that night and said somewhere in between $4 million and $7 million dollars. He called me back the next day and had changed his mind and wanted to keep going. The Fertittas believed in this thing, they put money into it and, when things went bad, they put more money into it.
Is 2020 enough time to make this the biggest sport in the world? Yeah. Hell yeah.
what a crock of sh!t…
Dana at Oxford
I would enjoy hearing his address there.
August 31, 2010, 11:31 am
This House Has No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Jujitsu Skills: U.F.C. Coming to the Oxford Union
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Just when things were starting to quiet down on the drama-ridden campus of Oxford University, that august institution has opened the door to more knuckle-bruising, eyebrow-lacerating, face-contusing conflict – and this time, on purpose.
After the bitterly fought contest for its professor of poetry seat, and the appointment of Trevor Nunn to a visiting professorship that bears the name of his colleague-turned-nemesis Cameron Mackintosh, Oxford is now bracing itself for a visit from Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, who has been invited to address the Oxford Union Society in the fall.
Mr. White, the 41-year-old athlete and entrepreneur who has helped guide U.F.C. from sideshow status to a mainstream, internationally televised mixed martial arts competition, has been asked to speak to the Oxford Union on Oct. 13.
Assuming you’ve misplaced your British history books beneath your piles of gauze and antiseptic, the Oxford Union is the 187-year-old debating society whose alumni include former British prime ministers like William Ewart Gladstone and Edward Heath, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, and Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. A variety of speakers have addressed the union, including the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa, as well as Jon Bon Jovi and Kermit the Frog, none of whom were previously associated with an octagonal fighting ring.
Do you wanna be a f’ing scholar???
[QUOTE=Vankuen;902893]The UFC was purchased by the brothers, not Dana. Dana was just the guy who approached the brothers advising that it [the purchase of the almost defunct UFC] would be a good investment. He didn’t produce the capital. As a byproduct, he owns 10 of the franchise and the 90% goes to the brothers.
He’s the face of the UFC…and is making a lot of money. I think that he is a ***** in terms of how he treats some of the fighters, but at the same time some of the fighters are thinking they’re worth more than they are. It’s hard to know what happens behind the scenes with all the he said-he said bull****.[/QUOTE]
True. And while he may be abrasive and cocky, White took a company involved in a fringe sport and drowning in red ink and under his guidance the company is making 10s of millions of dollars in profit per year and MMA is now a mainstream sport.