Dana White won’t be punished for the altercation with his wife
The UFC president suggested that there won’t be any punishment from the MMA organization after the altercation with his wife on New Year’s Eve.
Dana White’s slap fight with her wife while they were welcoming the New Year in a club in Mexico won’t be punished.
White, 53, publicly apologized after a video of the incident came out showing him hitting her twice, and made no excuses for hitting her wife Anne twice but said there will be no repercussions in his role as UFC president.
White believes, though, that he will never forget that incident and that it will be something that will have to carry for the rest of his life.
“Here’s my punishment: I’ve got to walk around for however long I live -is it 10.4 years, or is it another 25 years-, and this is how I’m labeled now”, he said at UFC Vegas 67 media day.
“My other punishment is that, I’m sure a lot of people, whether it be media, fighters, friends, acquaintances, who had respect for me, might not have respect for me now”, he added.
White rejects taking a break from the UFC
When asked by journalists about the altercation, Dana revealed that taking a break or being absent for a while won’t make any difference.
“What should the repercussions be? You tell me. I take 30 days off? How does that hurt me?”, he replied.
“There’s a lot of things that I’m going to have to deal with for the rest of my life that are way more of a punishment than what, I take a 30-day [or a] 60-day absence? That’s not a punishment to me. The punishment is that I did it, and now I have to deal with it”, White explained.
The UFC and its parent company Endeavor haven’t made any comments regarding White’s actions in the altercation.