Dana White Net Worth

Net Worth:	$500 Million
Date of Birth:	July 28, 1969 (54 years old)
Gender:	Male
Height:	5 ft 10 in (1.8 m)
Profession:	Businessperson, Promoter, Television producer
Nationality:	United States of America

What is Dana White’s net worth?

Dana White is an American entrepreneur and sports promoter who has a net worth of $500 million. Dana White is best known for leading The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts league.

When the UFC was sold for $4 billion to William Morris Endeavor (WME) in 2016, Dana owned 9% of the company. Prior to this, he had sold the Fertitta brothers the majority (billionaire casino magnates). After taxes, Dana’s 9% profit margin from the deal came to almost $360 million.

Childhood

Dana Frederick White Jr. was born on July 28th, 1969 in Manchester, Connecticut. He is the son of June and Dana White. Dana and his sister Kelly were mostly raised by his mother and grandparents.

During his formative years, he frequently traveled between Las Vegas and Maine. White has been a lifelong supporter of the Boston Red Sox baseball team and spent a lot of his youth participating in sports, especially boxing. In 1987, he received his high school diploma from Hermon High School in Maine.

Career

White resumed his schooling at the University of Massachusetts, albeit he did not finish it. While he was there, he started a boxing program for vulnerable inner-city children.

He also started teaching aerobics during this time to make a living. Eventually, he moved permanently to Las Vegas, where he founded Dana White Enterprises in 1992. He started managing Chuck Lidell and Tito Ortiz fighters around this time.

White kept broadening his views by exploring different combat philosophies, such as Muay Thai and mixed martial arts, which would ultimately come to define the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Fortunately for White, he had grown up with Lorenzo Fertitta, a former high school classmate who had achieved success as an executive at Station Casinos.

In the middle of the 1990s, the two met up again at a wedding and rekindled their friendship by talking about how much they both loved boxing. They also expressed their desire to collaborate in the future.

White had conflicts with the UFC while he was overseeing athletes. He looked into the accounts of Semaphore Entertainment Group, the company that owns the UFC, and found that they were bankrupt.

White discussed making an offer with his childhood friend Lorenzo Fertitta after learning the news. Lorenzo made a contract to purchase the UFC after instantly realizing the potential wealth.

Additionally, Lorenzo encouraged his older brother Frank to join in the fun. The Fertitta brothers invested $2 million in total to acquire an 81% ownership part in the UFC in 2001. They swiftly named White president.

Since purchasing the UFC, White and his staff have taken the once-barbaric and illegal organization and transformed it into a global sensation. Even after the company was sold, White has carried on in her role as president.

He has been successful in growing the sport’s following and making it into a multibillion-dollar industry. Dana White’s Contender Series, which will be hosted by White, was debuted with the UFC in May 2017.

Only UFC Fight Pass, a digital streaming subscription offered by the UFC, offers access to the program. In order for them to one day join the UFC, it features up-and-coming competitors and provides them the chance to demonstrate their talent.

White made known on March 18, 2019, that he has signed a new, seven-year contract with ESPN to continue serving as the UFC president.

Controversy

In 2009, after reporter Loretta Hunt published a story about him that offended him, White used vulgar and graphic words at her.

To describe the sources of her reports, he uttered anti-gay insults. White later issued an apology after being urged to do so by GLAAD for the anti-gay slur.

Awards And Nominations

White was selected Nevada’s Sportsman of the Year in 2009. He received Promoter of the Year at the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards nine times.

From 2008 to 2019, White won Leading Man of the Year at the World MMA Awards. 2019 saw White win the Patriot Award from the Armed Forces Foundation.

Relationship

White and his wife Anne have been partners since that year. In the eighth grade, the two first ran across each other. Aidan and Dana III are the couple’s two boys; Savannah is their daughter. White chooses to maintain his personal life in private.

White revealed in May 2012 that he had been given the diagnosis with Ménière’s illness, a neurological condition that White alleges was mostly triggered by a fight he participated in as a young person.

White was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump during his first campaign for president and gave a speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Trump was one of the UFC’s earliest patrons, and White praised him during his 2020 reelection campaign, mentioning how he allowed one of the organization’s first significant events to take place on one of his properties.

White also appeared at rallies and gave interviews in support of the president.

When Tuptim Jadnooleum, the daughter of one of Tiger Muay Thai’s instructors, needed a liver transplant in 2010, White contributed $50,000 to cover the cost. In order to renovate his old high school, White gave it $100,000 in 2011.

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