Dana White: The mob changed my life
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Dana White explains when James "Whitey" Bulger's Boston mob came after him and how it fueled a sudden move to Las Vegas.
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"they wanted $2500, I was like I barely pay that to my main eventers! So I fucking bailed"
avfcsouthpaw lol
lmfao
hahahahahaha
lmfaoo
PMSL
And to this day Dana white runs the other way when someone asks to be paid money .
redcon1gear
Priceless 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Especially fighters and his mother
Lmao we found the root of the problem
Doug Fisher stfuc
He didn't owe them money tho. He was just running a business ''in their territory'' so they felt they deserved a cut. The mob was full of a bunch of scumbag bullies picking on people simply trying to run a business.
When you're just one guy, fighting the mob is like bringing nothing to a gun fight.
unless u ditch your life and go Rambo on them then they run and puss out
if you have a gun, you can attempt to defend yourself. the problem is that they can still go after your family members, slash your tires, go to your job, and there's probably a million other ways to mess with somebody.
***** like I said u can go Rambo on them and they will puss out after u kill some of them. Just like the government, they rely on the fact that people remain stationary in their lives which makes them an easy target. You can't win on the defensive only the offensive.
+undeadpresident The only difference is Rambo was a movie. The real mob would wipe you and your whole family off the map, never pull a day over it and never lose a wink of sleep. Don't be fooled by movies and one man army bullshit. I wouldn't dare insult or deny any one person affiliated with a mob, especially the caliber of the guys from Southie during the time of Whitey.
Justin Hurley no they are just bullies and they rely on the fact that you go to a certain job every day and return to the same house every night. But guess what. So do they. If you are willing to take the time to follow the people to their own residences and places they frequent and avoid your own then you cannot be targeted but they can.
Mob guy "rob that store, dana"
Dana "That's fucking illegal"
Lmfao
Ctfu
this is exactly why he knew the stuff was rigged when he said that.
appreciate the laugh
Damn, Joe Rogan looks weird here......
hahahaha
xd
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
James O it’s Toe Rogan.
Joe "Dana White" Rogan
"do you want to be a fucking fighter"
"This ain't survivor, we don't vote 'em off, we beat 'em off"
"thats fuckin illegal"
"Ariel helwani was crying like a little bitch"
+Isaac Wallace that's fucking illegal
Dana bailed because he didn't have the makings of a varsity athlete.
I definitely got that😂 Uncle Junior
Den M go get your fuckin shinebox
@Den M I told you not to say that again!
Nobody has said it better
That’s a goodfellas reference not Sopranos
And Dana's experience with the mob gave him an idea about how to run a business....
Underrated comment
Considering his best friend and partners fertittas own the most casinos in vegas think they dont have mob ties?
Hence why he went to vegas,lol.
This comment aged so well with there being much more awareness on fighter pay
Nah lmao
Mob guys catching Dana at the Airport: "Oh you don't have my money, but you got money to buy plane tickets?!?!"
and move lol
plane tickets to vegas cost like $60 rn. imagine what they were back then lol
@@habibbialikafe339 We weren't in the middle of a pandemic back then. And comparatively, air travel has become MORE affordable. Not less.
@@xaviervelez8835 it was 60 before the pandemic and it was only more expensive if u adjust for inflation. Speaking in nominal dollars, it was cheaper back then. Dana’s $2,500 he spoke of was not inflation adjusted so we have to keep it the same
give me my money man....
"If I was there at the time, the Boston mob would've move to vegas... "Tony Ferguson.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm sure he's not telling a lot about this story. Dana prob did partner up and not pay them lol
That's the Chicago mob that created Vegas. Not those Boston woosies.
“I was the one who bought Dana his ticket to go back to Vegas after the Boston mob ran him out the state” - T.K. Kirkland
Fucking hell😂
Stfu
@@jackmc2475 you stfu
They are still looking for Dana to this day...
Zachary Laid He wouldn’t be hard to find
He probably paid them off by now
Wrong, Dana probably took them out and is now the head of the mob. With all the wealth he has, I would not doubt it.
They probably got lost in his house
ur pfp looks like shit bud
Any1 that grew up in boston at that time , knows what dana went through with that situation, props to him for not getting involved and just leaving.
Dana is too greedy to get involved. And he cant just not pay the Irish mob so he left. If he could have made money with Whitey and his crew he would have stayed.
No one knew or cared about Dana
Well he was teaching boxing at that time. And i am happy for the guy. Some people like him some people dont thats life. He did very well for himself as you know.
@@cloroc average boston resident reply, can’t be happy for another man’s success
@@clorocwell if you weren't in Boston around these times then of course you wouldn't know or care, it's not like social media was around in that era to have this news reach the other side of the globe once it became public, but in Boston the word got around to street guys here and there, also Whiteys crew wasn't exactly considered a mob/mafia family as they had no rules keeping them conducting business in the dark, whitey was a long time stool pigeon (rat)al aswell that's why he was killed quickly in lock up, that being said his crew was the last you'd wanna fk around with as Dana basically implied
I'm sure it was a charity thing Dana.......
Exactly! The mob likes to target other people who make profits from illegitimate means. That way they have leverage without having to wave a gun.
Oh yeah
Dana own a monopoly amd runs it like a mob ran fight club
@@JohannGambolputty22 the mob targets any business that makes any money by any means
@@judethedude96 I’m not saying that doesn’t happen. Merely pointing out the fact that leverage against ... you know what, nevermind. You got it all figured out.
I guess he wasn't brave enough to tell them to go get their shine boxes.
Now go get your fuckin shine box
😂😂😂
This 1 year old comment pays dividends to this day, lmao
Lmao!!!! lmao!!!!! That was too funny
“You insulted him a little bit.”
Graham Bensinger is a class act with only quality interviews, and that's why he always gets the more open and laid back interviews. u can tell the people he interviews respect graham.
That mob changed my bum life - Dana White
My bum changed the mob - Dana White
Dude is rich as fuck...are you?
Monk Kenyon yes I am now that you mention it 😂😂
@@alexsircus368 Is there an echo in here? Lol
Monk Kenyon what?
So he ran from the Boston Mob.......and then joined the Las Vegas Mob ?
Dana White is not in the Las Vegas mob.
imo casinos are a mob activity - it's a big con. This is because it's IMPOSSIBLE to win. It's mathematically designed that way - the "house edge" means that all the bets pay out less than you pay in.
He's part of the jewish mob...
+Jared Thompson he works for the Federal Reserve???
+Robert Rothman Las Vegas is an open city. Any Family can work out of there. Normally it's the Mid-west Families and they kick back to Chicago and New York.
There's also no chance Dana is telling this story truthfully. "Oh, I started a charity, and then to pay the bills I went around to the health clubs to teach boxing". That reeks of bs.
It wasnt a charity, he said it was basically a charity because he wasn't making any money of it
Casual UFC fans don't know how full of shit Dana White really is.
Charities don't pay taxes. Criminals set them up to launder money.
He say he say he say. He might not be telling full truth here. To setup gyms and stuff like that requires connections and maybe few loans. See where im going with this?
Total BS
There's always only half truth when Dana speaks he never really finishes a answer when asked a question. He's good at steering away from anything that will expose his real life.
What do you think about this is a lie?
@@ej4458Big gambling debt owed to some serious men. So he had to get out of town, to Las Vegas, ended up in the arms of Italian gangsters and they own a piece of his pie. Big draw for their casinos too. Not that hard to understand. It was either that or the winter hill gang would have stripped him and left him walking so to sepak
@@callumhaines6874 so he is still working with italian gangsters or was that a thing in the past?
@@ej4458 Have no idea.
W for Dana White for escaping the Boston Mob by making a heart pounding get away taking a short plane ride to Las Vegas which is the perfect place to hide by the way.. It all makes perfect sense now why he later decides to go low key and form a MMA company that would make him world famous. This was all a part of Dana Whites plan to create a buffer zone between him and his enemies. Genius!!!!!
not that unbelievable really, they were just trying to shakedown a local business, they scared him off instead, it happens. They are not going to chase him for something like that
+Nova Knowself dude!!! i literally just pissed my pants laughing !!! that was best comment of the year bro!! =) proper respect from Australia!
"Buffer zone" lol
lol, that was Boston... there not going to chase him down in Vegas for $2,500.... you think your funny but your not...
jimmy lefty The mob just aint the mob if too many ppl get away with taking their money. Lol. Just sayin
PLOT TWIST: It was 2 of his main eventers asking for their money
Dana "I ain't paying you" White 😂
a mop changed my life
A mop changed my wife.
+1BorrisNorris I changed your wife
Conor mcgregor changed your bum life
Shaun B your now his wife??lol
A broom changed mine
that 2500 you owed me is now 25,000,000 with interest dana, i want my money. Don't try running this time.
He owes everyone money.
he has already paid...don't worry
here i am
HAHAHAHAAHA
jarg7 im the real whitey, i actually own multiple troll accounts. I want my money dana
Old boxer Dana had money to pay,
He lost a big gamble I'm sorry to say.
The mob wanted interest on one sunny day,
So old boxer Dana just scuttled away.
@Mark Wright sounds like you're speaking with a guilty conscience
Lol, the truth in a poem, great.
"I forget what it was called... oh yeah, the Boston Athletic Club." Shit man, I almost forgot where I bought a hamburger.... Oh yeah, it was the Portland Oregon Burger Place.
wow funny guy
I forgot where I bought my big Mac...I think it was at McDonald.
No dude it IS the Boston Athletic Club. And it's or was in Southie
Story sounds fishy. Might not be the whole picture.
doubt it. you don't just say "no" to mob guys lol
It was probably a gambling debt.
Whitey was a gangster who was operating at a street level. There was nothing intelligent about what he was upto.
If the story Dana is telling is true he more than likely did not say no he just ran.
It's never the whole picture when Dana's involved.
yeah dana is a big tike gambler. multiple vegas casinos have banned him for winning to much
It cracked me up when he said nothing good was gonna happen at 1 a clock 😂😂😂😂
i O'clock not a clock
"The mob changed my life." - I thought this was going to be about Fertitta money.
They wanted to be behind the scenes. Those brothers didn't want to argue and fight with all the fighters over pay and everything. Dana loved it and why he became so big. Perfect partnership.
so that is where he learned his business model/methods
"I didn't know him, I didnt do anything, I had nothing to do with him" okay dana, got it, you're not gonna talk.
I wonder what the interest on that $2,500 is? Hopefully Dana doesn't get any visitors from Boston anytime soon.
They actually own his entire portion of the UFC biz.... he just doesn't know it yet. lol
I'm sure the UFC itself Is much bigger. 5 top notch transporter shot can easily be hired
+tekno mytekno You're so silly
Yeah, but now he has money to hire his own guys, meaning they can't collect.
Um...as of 6/25/16 Dana coudl no doubt swing that interest on $2500.....but more importantly he could swing some swag now as well...so I'm thinking that "debt" has been washed off those books.
Karl Pilkington: The mob changed my life
Then he met a bigger mob who could wipe those mob off the floor. The great Lorenzo Fertitta
That's a weird way of spelling Chael Sonnen
@@iBreakAnkles4Fun haha
More like protect him. For a few Ofcourse. 50% of his UFC. Or whatever way they work it out
It's true: the lifelong friendship with the Fertitta family wound up netting him hundreds of millions of dollars.
"we started this 'get kids off the street' program" - you mean the UFC?
"to pay the bills, we used to bring in businessmen, housewives" - ah yep you do
Yeah, move to Vegas because there's no gangsters there right? lol!
Well at least there aren't gangsters that might break his legs over 2500 lol
LOL....why break legs if you're going to bury them out in the desert...much easier to have them get out of the car and walk to the hole rather than drag their carcass.
he got protection from some bigger mobsters in Vegas instead
Actually, there were not anymore at that time. Go back to watching your movies though.
Big Jon The Fertitta brothers are from a mob family, you know
The mob changed his life alright. Dana and the Fertittas have done well.
Their dad was connected. wouldn't surprise me if frankie three sticks and lorenzo had connections too
Now he is balls deep in the mob the Feritta family is a well known mob family.(His bosses)
pretty much
Not anymore
What you on about?
they sold the company smart guy
Yep, now William Morris own's UFC
You call it mafia, I call it domestic terrorism.
You don’t know the definition of terrorism
You call it whatever you want to call it you better mind your business before you end up in concrete dumbass
All that terrorism requires is the creation or intent to incite terror. These replies are dumb.
And everyone else calls you *Cock Boy*
Little Jimmy Scumbag haha no doubt bro. Have a good day bud. P.s. love the name.
damn Dana really came from humble beginnings
'' i litteraly that day i bought a plane ticket and came back to vegas.'''
If this is true that's horrendous that someone can be extorted in this way.
Happens a lot more than you think. Still to this day
@@Milo19970 Not in the US really
The story was believable until...
“So what’d ya do”
“I bought a ticket and went back to Vegas...”
what do u think happened then?
@@habibbialikafe339 the mafia runs ufc and he is their puppet
@@J3R3MI6 lmao yeah ok
@@J3R3MI6 🤣🤣 nice one bud
There was a time when uncle dana was acting like a mobboss. That was around the time of the dana white scrums. check out the Ken shamrock rant. acting like hes a mobboss himself
'I'M NOT THE KIND OF PERSON THAT FIXES FIGHTS!'
I wish one of the uploads would be the full episode, or Graham did a podcast. He does the best interviews.
Its weird they went after someone who did charity work. I got the feeling he is not explaining the whole story. But going to Vegas makes sense because he was childhood friends with Fetita brothers who is coming from a mob family and they can protect him.
AAD its not weird because they are scumbags with no morals
no he said it was charity because he wasnt making money
Anything being run in their area they want a piece of. That’s why they wanted his money because he was in their territory.
6IXVI Super it wasnt no fucking charity
"Dana White, you use to hold my bags"- Floyd Mayweather
Zavik 424 dana is worth more tho.....
Sneaker Love no he is not
12% of 4.2 billion. He is
Floyd - “you grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan in a household where you literally couldn’t sleep straight”
.....but we’re both here
When I trained for the UFC, Dana was super shady and even though fighters do, they really don't want you training separately for some reason. The weigh-ins and drug testing are bullshit. Depending on who gets involved any man can pass weigh-ins by like 20lbs and almost all elite fighters do some kind drug enhancement. When someone starts dominating and doesn't play the game, they get busted for roids or something.
That industry is so shady.
Roid up and don’t lose fights then and you’re golden
It's Vegas...the House wins.
What in the hell are you talking about? Who or what is your source to this "knowledge"?
What do you mean by play the game?
Don't be fooled by this vague story of his passings with the mob. Nobody just suddenly brushes with the mob and then runs away to talk about it. I bet ol Dana White pays tribute to the mob to this day. Just look at the mobs relationship with boxing and other fighting events.
@@jjoeyj83 exactly, plus it's been 20+ years since then...
The mob doesn’t even exist anymore
@@almightyfonics look it up
_"Nobody just suddenly brushes with the mob and then runs away to talk about it."_
I think ur confusing the mob with nerve agents eg sarin
@@almightyfonics the mob = organised crime. The drugs prohibition creates a gap in the market that gives organised crime a lot of power, so the mob is strong in 2018. U probably define the mob to mean like "Sicilians committing organised crime" or "non drug dealers committing organised crime who follow their own criminal code" but i don't think these definitions would withstand much pressure in debate
"so I bought a plane ticket and came to vegas" hahahaha Im dying
Now Dana White walks around like he's Kevin Weeks.
classical example of how the mob and organised crime pushes out business punishes innovators and causes a cycle of misery
I simply dont believe any of this
Sub'd and liked...I like a good interviewer who lets the guest talk without interruption. Look forward to more of your work.
To have the mob harass and breath down your neck must have been hella scary. As a young fighter back in the day, Dana was jumped by a group people which kinda ended his fight career and to add-as worst for the wear, ends up getting death in one ear. He must have been a hell of a fighter because the mob was trying to get rid of him since day one of his career as a boxer, promoter and former trainer.
Hahahaha awsome storey. He said "at first I did noting, but after that phone call, I booked it" hahaha
Lol it's funny how there fetita brothers are from a mob family
exactly, he went to a bigger mob family for protection
he never said how he dealt with his debt. I would like to know if they have talked since then. im sure at some point dana wasn't rich enough for full time bodyguards.
Like all immigrants they worked hard so their kids would not have to shoot people and end up buried in a cornfield.
Probably the reason why Dana is save in Vegas lol
Fertitta brothers have no mob connections
Some of y'all just don't know what people had to go through to get where they are now! Respect to Dana White.
So this rat went through a pit of snakes to get where he is now, which is a rat with a snakes head filthy rich?
Respect should be given to everyone, not just those you biasedly favor.
He deserves no praise, he is prejudice and bigot.
This story doesn’t make sense to me. Kevin Weeks extorts Dana yet he’s never had anything to do with them before. Then all of a sudden he has 24 hours?
Thought he was talking about the NHL goalie
Are you 11 years old? If you operate a successful business on mafia territory, they will come to your business and extort you in exchange for "protection." If you don't pay, they get rid of you and install someone who will.
Blzt if you have nothing to do with the mafia why do they approach you? How do they know your business is successful? If you’re under the radar they shouldn’t even know of you. Boston is a big city.
@@blzt3206 how much protection money a month?
@@MiloFPS Try to pay attention when you watch videos. He said that after a while they became well known trainers all around Boston and worked at various health clubs. He also said that they had businessmen and people from various backgrounds as clients, so it's not hard to understand that those clients talk around and some surely had mob related friends. The word gets around the neighborhood very fast if someone is doing good. He also said he ignored them after their first visit so it took some time before they contacted him again and gave him 24 hours. It's all pretty clear in the video, you should be able to comprehend it.
Dana White: Conor McGregor changed my bum life
Love or hate Dana, it's amazing when people do stuff to help kids
The funny thing is. Conor changed Dana's bum life aswell, that's why he loves him so much. McGregor to UFC is like what Tupac was to Death Row.
Conor changed the game changed everyone s life, made ufc bigger then football. Dana wil for ever be in love with conor
Conor has been great for UFC but they were already doing very well before he came along.
@@ImMagnetz he broke all the existing PPV records by miles so don’t be a hater and recognize there was a before and after Conor McGregor
@@diegoesquivel8548 When did I not recognise that? All I said was that the company was financially successful before him as well. "Don't be a hater". Don't be a moron.
awesome interview
someone should play this interview for the 'brain dead' fanboys on sopranos channels and other mob video channels who think there is something good about mobsters. they are cowardly parasites, who form into groups to prey on people who are naïve enough to think they don't need to be prepared to defend themselves if they are proprietors of a business.
sopranos shows mafia as the stupid scumbags they are
Shut up
Little did he know, that skill or running away and avoiding payment would come in very handy later on.
Damn Graham, you're easily becoming my favorite UA-camr. Keep the epic interviews coming!!
I grew up in Southie in the 80's. Totally different neighborhood now, but back then it was a madhouse. I look back on it and honestly, while I miss my hometown, I'm glad I got out when I did. I would've ended up a statistic.
Why what’s it like there now. And is south Boston a big town ? I’m from England 😂
@@jimmybaldwin737 Ha! It's fairly affluent now from what I understand. Definitely quite different from the violent, impoverished neighborhood I grew up in. Boston itself is huge, but Southie is relatively small by comparison.
I worked for Amtrak in the mid 90s and they neighborhood was definitely changing. Now it's all heroin and well off white people.
The MOB: "Dana, 25 G'S BABYYYY! By the end of tommorow"
That's some scary shit. Dana's a smart dude with a lot of experience to share
And a professional line in cooking socks..
I was actually there that day, when those guys came in to press dana for money. They told me if HE DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY that they were going to "have his horse whipped"
to this day I'm not sure what they were talking about, but that doesn't sound good.
Sounds to me like dana was taking bets on fights, Jimmy bulger got wind, Kevin paid a visit for a cut....dana said, ahhh, f this im better off with bets in vegas....
Whitey wound up buying socks from the dollar store before they caught him LoL
peter Welch still has a gym in southie
Soooo, he ran back to Vegas and that's it...End of story? The mob didn't try to track him down or anything like that? Damn, such an exciting story.
Track down for 2500 dollars ? you kidding me ? If he did not pay and did not run, they would fuck him up, but he ran away. He left his business, so technically he even was not a subject for shakedown from that moment. You can not shake down some nobody who is in another city already and who owes nothing.
sooo, he just ditched his girlfriend and left her to the wolfs... watta gentleman
jose landa ..his gay
She was probably cheating on him
She belong to the streets cuz
Dana sounds like a woman's name.
Fuck that skank
It shows how the mob hurts the economy of a town. People leave and take opportunities for the residents with them.
when some people leave a place, other people come in. thats how the world works.
It fascinates me how on any interview of a successful person there is hate in the comments... Jealous much?
How come every criticism is called "hate" by people like you. I criticize people a lot, of which Im neither "jealous" of, nor "hate".
@@WorldWideMarket _"How come every criticism is called "hate" by people like you"_
How come every time someone says there's hate in the comments, there's a chance people like u will say: "every criticism's called hate by people like u"
He says “I’m 19, I’m not working any more”.
A next day flight to vegas would probably cost you a grand
bdemar2k12 Just looked up a one way from dallas for tomorrow.. $179
Back then probably about 4 or 500
Not in the 80s
We're talking about the Late 80's dawg flights weren't as expensive
I thought the first rule was to never admit the mob even exists?
***** No. I've heard Mafia guys say this when asked about the Mob.
the wives had a freakin tv show...holy mother of spotlights..
The Frittata Family is the Family to fear 😱 😂😪😂😭😂
This is how Dana White pays his fighters...
Books himself a flight.🤣
So wait. He easily skipped out on oweing some mobsters by flying away and it was that simple? They just let him be???
He simply "owed" street tax.. aka extortion. Basically, he was given two choices: Pay or leave town.
He did not owe anything - a simple concept you do not get.
Alternate title: Dana White: I ignored the mob and got away with it, it really didn’t change anything.
I didn't do anything, i wasn't going out of my way to try to bump into them again ???
Buys a plane ticket to las vegas....
And that POS Weeks is able to live out his life after that. Absolutely amazing.
Uh huh right.
If this guy told me the sky was blue I'd look up.
Mike Fallopian yeah Dana is a total bullshitter
Mike Fallopian on September 10th and actually the 11th in 2001 guess who The Most Wanted Man by Law Enforcement was??
It was the man Dana references as “Whitey”.
James “Whitey” Bulger in real life made Jack Nicholson in “The Departed” look like a Disney character. Dana mentions “Kevin Weeks”. So “look up” this, because yeah there were some scary people running Southie at the time. Feel free to watch the video:
www.historyvshollywood.com/video/kevin-weeks-interview/
@@chrisconley8583 ...uh, yeah, thanks dimwit but I've heard of Whitey Bulger.
@@mikefallopian3191 it took you a year to come up with that retort, I think my wits are quite fine compared to yours.
So basically, it's because of Whitey Buldger that we have UFC. Crazy.
Soooo...He ditched the gym and left his partner and students to deal with the mob??
Is he actually admitting to that? And "...to get away from the mob..." he went to....Las Vegas? 😂😂😂 Is he just punking people with this bs or what?
As a fighter, hell of a video I’ve watched this once a year since it was posted. Still important info in 22
There's more to that story Dana.
prove it. go ahead, prove it. the burden isnt on him to prove it, YOUR the one saying theres more to the story. alright then, prove it. good luck with that.
I'm waiting for the interviewer to say *ive gotta return some video tapes*
Dana tries so hard to act tough. dude, you're a promoter. you're not a fighter. you never were. you never will be. cut the tough guy act.
Dana White is the epitome of a storyteller that doesn't even need a campfire.
look Dana not a coward he. a smart enough guy worth millions now,!!
He's not exactly a picture of gallantry either, money don't change that.
He also wouldn't be where he is if he hadn't got massive help from the Fertita bros.
Billions*
The Mob has died a death. Has to happen to govt
hey Dana, just send Diego Dirty Sanchez and the Diaz Brothers to take care of business on kevin week's ass.
“The mob was never my friend.”