News *** Dana White Caught in Altercation with Wife on New Years MEGA THREAD ***

[Takes Two To Tango]

Can't wait for Daniel Cormier's take.

Cormier - "No comment."

 

[Peli]

For starters, because Endeavor Holdings dropped almost 6% in 24hours after Dana's incident, which wasnt the case after the other incidents you mentioned.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeoz...dana-white-slapping-his-wife/?sh=5c98bc9a7506

And that's a lot of money. And Dana is literally the public face of the company, that's his role, its not just a staff member or a worker. Some of you seem to be puposedly obtuse regarding this incident.

it's the stock market. The money is not really lost. It'll recover. As someone mentioned before, its still up where it was a week ago Wednesday 28th it was at 20.66


people are nervous but its going to bounce back and recover in a few days. it's not that much of a drop.

 

[Oz.Pride]

My ex assaulted me and threw beer bottles at me in public in a parking lot. I regret not at least giving her one or two. Not comparing this to Dana's situation at all, but I hope you're never in a relationship with anyone who thinks it's cool to put their hands on you.

Facts. White knights up in here must find it hard to balance the time to post here and be neck deep on Onlyfans and Reddit

 

[gunlok]

I've been hit.
My automatic instinctual response to hit back has fuck all to to with 'societal pressures.'

I don't know about that? Are you sure that is purely instinctual. My cats fight each other and slap each other, however most often it is when they can't leave , like when they get food and all have to be close to each other. But often they just walk away from each other after a slap with no retaliation. Maybe, we were simply taught to believe that it is natural to hit back, but why would our ancestors hit each other in retalioation? Cause they fought for survival, if you ate my food or take my stone tool, that I need to surivive, it seems more natural to fight over this. But in the current situation the social factor is more important. What, everyone saw me getting slapped, now in the society's eyes I am weak, have to retaliate, so I have proof of being strong

 

[Hollywood Jack]

My guess is that he was probably flirting with other women and this upset his wife who went sulking; cue this interaction. I don't know much about Dana but it's sad to see he has such an immature personal life behind the scenes.

His own mother let the cat out of the bag about his infidelities with various women including the Octagon Girls (or at least the ones that Lorenzo hadn’t bagged up). On the video where Colby goes to confront Dana at the casino, you can see the Asian escort there and then she runs as soon as she sees the camera. His wife knows what their marriage is. I’d bet dollars to donuts they divorce once their youngest kid leaves the house…

 

[ChimRichalds]

I’ll keep saying this, you’re a piece of shit if you think it’s okay to hit or smack a woman because she hits/smacks you and you’re a fucking retarded piece of shit if you do it in public.

It's wild to me that so many people here disagree with this.

 

[taurus]

I grew up with domestic violence myself, this is no trivial matter

I'm sorry you had to go through that, honestly. I'm not diminishing what he did, all I'm saying is that men can suffer from domestic violence themselves (and that we don't know the ins and outs of their (obviously) shitty relationship).

The statistics are showing that domestic violence is predominately inflicted by men, and it is true men are physicaly stronger than women and the extent of injuries on women is not even comparable to those on men. But I have to say that I'm glad to see that the society is starting to accept that men can suffer from domestic violence themselves. Case in point...



And don't take this as my positive take on that specific host, a lot of people say he is not a beacon of shining light or holding the moral high ground on anyone, I just thought he responded appropriately to that specific situation.

Back to the Dana thing, I don't know what happened before the video, or after the video. I'm not making any guesses here, bcs we simply don't know. That said, his mother was quoted as saying she regularly hits him, and that he has had a black eye on one occasion. Also, he is (in the video) holding her hands (both of them). We don't know why, but it could be 1) to try to hurt her or force her to do something or (and bare with me) 2) to stop her from hitting him. A simple fact is that the moment he lets go of one of her hands, she immediately hits him. Then he slaps her. Then (by witness accounts) she tries to hit him several more times through an extended period of time. As does he.

All that taken into account, I cannot agree with you that it doesn't matter what happened before he hit her. For all we know, this could have been him reacting to several years of her hitting him. Or her reacting to him hitting her for several years. Or it could be their shitty relationship where they hit each other constantly. We don't know. And in the end, it doesn't matter, bcs the point is that we can't just put out a blank statement "a man should not hit a women EVER". Bcs that's sexist.

And don't get me wrong, Dana White is a scumbag, with or without hitting his wife. I'm not defending him in any way, shape or form.

 

[Elvis.]

After all the good he’s done in the world <Lmaoo>
That’s about as far as I got

 

[cincymma79]

His own mother let the cat out of the bag about his infidelities with various women including the Octagon Girls (or at least the ones that Lorenzo hadn’t bagged up). On the video where Colby goes to confront Dana at the casino, you can see the Asian escort there and then she runs as soon as she sees the camera. His wife knows what their marriage is. I’d bet dollars to donuts they divorce once their youngest kid leaves the house…

She’ll take millions she Descartes for building the ufc then never build anything the rest of her life.

 

[sonhow]

What was the Kevion Iole article? It got lost in the sea of pages and no way am I gonna dig it up

 

[J0N0]

Okamotto annoys me more because no one respects Iole, but other media members give Brett a free pass for some reason.

Err, where does Dana 'apologize' Brett?

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/35368344/ufc-dana-white-apologizes-physical-altercation-wife

 

[suffersystem]

I'm sorry you had to go through that, honestly. I'm not diminishing what he did, all I'm saying is that men can suffer from domestic violence themselves (and that we don't know the ins and outs of their (obviously) shitty relationship).

The statistics are showing that domestic violence is predominately inflicted by men, and it is true men are physicaly stronger than women and the extent of injuries on women is not even comparable to those on men. But I have to say that I'm glad to see that the society is starting to accept that men can suffer from domestic violence themselves. Case in point...



And don't take this as my positive take on that specific host, a lot of people say he is not a beacon of shining light or holding the moral high ground on anyone, I just thought he responded appropriately to that specific situation.

Back to the Dana thing, I don't know what happened before the video, or after the video. I'm not making any guesses here, bcs we simply don't know. That said, his mother was quoted as saying she regularly hits him, and that he has had a black eye on one occasion. Also, he is (in the video) holding her hands (both of them). We don't know why, but it could be 1) to try to hurt her or force her to do something or (and bare with me) 2) to stop her from hitting him. A simple fact is that the moment he lets go of one of her hands, she immediately hits him. Then he slaps her. Then (by witness accounts) she tries to hit him several more times through an extended period of time. As does he.

All that taken into account, I cannot agree with you that it doesn't matter what happened before he hit her. For all we know, this could have been him reacting to several years of her hitting him. Or her reacting to him hitting her for several years. Or it could be their shitty relationship where they hit each other constantly. We don't know. And in the end, it doesn't matter, bcs the point is that we can't just put out a blank statement "a man should not hit a women EVER". Bcs that's sexist.

And don't get me wrong, Dana White is a scumbag, with or without hitting his wife. I'm not defending him in any way, shape or form.

Pretty much this.

 

[Prex32]

the way she slapped him i think it was not the first time

 

[genecop]

I don't know about that? Are you sure that is purely instinctual. My cats fight each other and slap each other, however most often it is when they can't leave , like when they get food and all have to be close to each other. But often they just walk away from each other after a slap with no retaliation. Maybe, we were simply taught to believe that it is natural to hit back, but why would our ancestors hit each other in retalioation? Cause they fought for survival, if you ate my food or take my stone tool, that I need to surivive, it seems more natural to fight over this. But in the current situation the social factor is more important. What, everyone saw me getting slapped, now in the society's eyes I am weak, have to retaliate, so I have proof of being strong

He would have appeared stronger if he had walked away…it was a heat of the moment thing..

 

[tommyhanks430]

It's wild to me that so many people here disagree with this.

Wild, yet disappointingly unsurprising

 

[Robbocop]

He was hit first, why should he step down for retaliation to an assault?

The headlines on one of the biggest news sites in Australia was:

"UFC boss slaps wife in shocking footage"

So it is being framed as him assaulting his wife, not retaliating to assault. I agree it is completely wrong, but it is a standard imbalance in how these things are reported in main stream media at large, e.g. male is always the aggressor.

 

[Tweak896]

Dana hasn't been the same since WME, he's taken more steps back from the sport than he ever used to. If he wants early retirement then he should use this as an excuse to bow out. I feel like part of him wants a break and another part is a workaholic.

 

[chinarice]

the way she slapped him i think it was not the first time

Definitely not the first time Dana beat his wife. He did all of that far too casually

 

[gunlok]

He would have appeared stronger if he had walked away…it was a heat of the moment thing..

Here, on this forum, he would probably appear weak. Would be easy to test the theory. For example, a poll - should you walk away with no retaliation if guy slaps you? I would expect majority here would claim that it would be a sign of weakness. And for plenty of people it doesn't matter who struck you, the most important part is to retaliate to protect your image in the eyes of peers

 

[Prex32]

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Seems Dana was already mangling her fingers prior to the slaps and kick / stomp

not defending anyone but we simply dont know the whole story
what hapened even before that?