UFC president Dana White on Monday addressed a video launched earlier within the day exhibiting him and his spouse apparently hanging one another within the face in what gave the impression to be an altercation in a membership in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
According to TMZ, which launched the video, the altercation befell throughout in a VIP room throughout a New Year’s Eve occasion at El Squid Roe, shortly after midnight.
The video, which lasts about 45 seconds, exhibits White say one thing to his spouse, Anne White. As she turns to Dana White, he grabs her left wrist, after which she slaps him on the face together with her proper hand.
Dana seems to instantly slap Anne as soon as, then take one other swing at her. The two then seize each other’s arms whereas others intervene.
In talking with TMZ, Dana White admitted that he and his spouse had been the individuals within the video and that he did strike her.
“You’ve heard me say for years, ‘There’s never ever an excuse for a guy to put his hands on a woman,’ and now here I am on TMZ talking about it,” Dana White, 53, informed the outlet.
He added, “There was definitely a lot of alcohol involved, but that’s no excuse. I literally am making no excuses for this thing at all, it’s never happened before it’s the first time that it’s ever happened … I don’t know why it happened and my wife and I have apologized to each other, we’ve apologized to our kids.”
Several occasions within the interview, Dana alluded to being most involved concerning the impression of the incident on his youngsters.
“My wife and I have been married for almost 30 years,” he mentioned. “We’ve known each other since we were 12 years old. We’ve obviously been through some (expletive) together, and we’ve got three kids. This is one of those situations that’s horrible. I’m embarrassed. But it’s also one of those situations that right now we’re more concerned about our kids. We have three kids and obviously since the video popped up, we’ve shown the kids the video. We’re more focused on our family right now.”
Dana White helped persuade brothers Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta to buy the UFC for $2 million in 2001, at which period White was named president of the corporate. The brothers bought the corporate in 2021 for greater than $4 billion. At the time White reportedly owned almost 10 p.c of the corporate and remained as president by the sale and nonetheless holds the place at this time.
