Is Dana White MMA's greatest genius or MMA's biggest a*****e?

Question

Dana White has done alot for MMA no doubt but his ruthless vindictiveness is somewhat over shadowing his accomplishments as of recently.

If he were easier to deal with and respected his fighters the UFC would put everyone out of business over night!

The list of people that he's bumped heads with:

Randy Couture

Tito Ortiz

Big John McCarthy

Frank Shamrock

Fedor Emeliananko

Josh Barnett

and I'm sure there's more.

Answer 1

I think he's a genious as there's little doubt he's expanded the sport on cable, PPV, internationally, and made it legal in states that previously opposed MMA.  At the same time, it is disappointing to see some big names leave UFC because of his prickly attitude.  It's also a shame for UFC that while they made the sport popular, it's really EliteXC and Affliction that are making the gains---it's kinda unfair but it's give and take with White.

Answer 2

BOTH

Answer 3

In my opinion I think he is both.  He has to be a smart business man and has done so much for the sport....but I think the attitude of not wanting to "share" the world of MMA with Elite, Affliction etc... is just very greedy!  I am starting to not like him more and more because it.  I just watched the Biography of Randy Couture two nights ago and he has had problems with the UFC since his early days of fighting. He had a contract for a fight for X number of  dollars, he fought and then they told him they couldn't pay him X, they paid him Y number of dollars!  Dana is a greedy man and I don't really care for a greedy person.

Answer 4

Well lots of people have to admit that he is good at what he does but yes he is a really big a$$ hole who people want to take a wack at he even challenged tito ortiz and said tito got scaraed to fight Dana.

Answer 5

Both.

Answer 6

Both

He had to be a cutthroat busniess man to take the ufc to the top.

He is a genius in the fact that his company was going under no one was watchin so what did he do? He brought it the public with the ultimate fighter. His ego has got him in a lot of trouble tho. He had a chance to sign Fedor but ruined it by yelling at him. He has tried to shut out all the competition. You'll see every season of the ultimate fighter dana has plucked the best fighters from different orginizations. Rampage v Forrest many were top fighters in the ifl.

So Dana is an awesome guy who has turned ufc into an awesome organization where some of the best fighters in the world. But, he cant keep other orginizations from trying to go to the top. But he will try

Answer 7

Why can't he be both?

Answer 8

he is a pretty smart business man and has made the UFC a household name but he also talks out his *** sometimes and insults some fighters. but thats how he is. so i can't really call him an a*****e cause i have never met the dude. so I would just say he's a douche.