UFC CEO Dana White is a well-known public figure in the combat sports community. Although the ex-fighter has been in the news for many controversies and scandals, he continues to help fighters worldwide achieve their dreams, giving them a platform to display their skills. The UFC boss recently shared a touching story.
In a recent appearance on the In Search of Excellence podcast, White got emotional while recounting a story about how he helped save a girl’s life.
“ There was this guy who posted something, saying that he had just come back from Thailand. He was training Muay Thai over there with this legendary coach, and his daughter was dying because she needed some type of heart surgery. She was going to die in the next several days if she didn’t get the money. It was gonna be $50,000. The guy was like, ‘Dana White, you need to put this f**king money up right now and donate it to her. You f**king bet this much playing on blackjack.’ You know, basically coming at me like that.”
“People on the thing were going ‘woah, he can do whatever he wants with his money, why do you expect him’–but, this is the way I talk. This guy was talking to me. The way that I talk, and he isn’t wrong. I was like like, no, this dude is f**king absolutely right. He’s not wrong, he’s absolutely f**king right. I’m supposed to do this. So, I end up reaching out, we find out if it’s real and it’s real, and I send the $50,000 over.”
“When you go into their gym there’s this massive picture of me in there. Then there’s a big picture of me over her head, like I’m her guardian angel [Dana gets choke up]. I pay for her schooling and all of her medical stuff, I don’t like talking about a lot of this stuff, but I’m in a position where I’m very lucky I can help other people. I do stuff because I should do it, and I do stuff because I wanna do it, I don’t do it because I want to be recognized doing it. But I don’t like talking about it.”
Dana White is also well-known for his charitable donations like the 1 million dollar contributions to support victim’s families of those in the Las Vegas shooting in 2017 and many others.
