[quote]Mick28 wrote:
treco wrote:
Donut62 wrote:
It’s not really a big announcement to us. To the UFC, and MMA business, this is huge. This means that someone other than Dana White is going to be the primary mouth piece for the organization. Dana has done a great job making the company profitable, but his lack of tact and general unprofessionalism had held them back in some key areas.
Fertita is a business genius, soft and intelligently spoken, with major global connections. Up until now Lorenzo & Frank have kept a respectable distance from their investment. Now, after two or three years of reaching profitable status, a feat which no other American MMA organization has ever accomplished, it seems the risk has dissolved to where they want more hands on control.
If they want to take the UFC truly worldwide and to the next level, they need a guy like him to do it. And it looks like they are ready to take that step.
Agreed.
An entrepreneur (White) does not usually make the best COO or CEO (the Fertitas).
I’m sorry I didn’t know that Dana White was ever an Entrepreur. What business did he start and succeed in?
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Look, I can’t stand White either, he’s relatively brash and obnoxious for the most part. However, it is pretty asinine to write off the success the UFC has enjoyed under his leadership. Whether you want to call it dumb luck or just blind circumstance, the fact remains that they went from an organization and sport that was losing money and in danger [kind of] of being banned [in the US,] to one that is now very profitable and fully sanctioned by boxing commissions in various states.
Not all the credit lies with the Fertita’s or White for the sanctioning portion, but you have to give the man his due for helping to right a sinking ship.
[quote]Mick28 wrote:
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Not really…it was an idea who’s time had come. I do give credit to the Fertita’s for having the connections to get state boxing commissions to go along with mma (when do you think New York will wise up?). The sport needed those two guys to come along when they did. It never needed Dana White…and doesn’t need him now.
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Didn’t White talk the Ferrita brothers into buying the UFC? I think his vision and drive are absolutely instrumental to the current condition of the UFC and MMA in America.
He may be a foulmouthed asshole that doesn’t pay his fighters a big purse but he belongs in the MMA Hall of Fame.
I agree, the Fertitas had no original inclinations of buying the UFC, it was Dana’s vision that got them to get on board with it.
I understand 100% why most people hate Dana White, but his business model and the success of it, are completely remarkable.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Mick28 wrote:
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Not really…it was an idea who’s time had come. I do give credit to the Fertita’s for having the connections to get state boxing commissions to go along with mma (when do you think New York will wise up?). The sport needed those two guys to come along when they did. It never needed Dana White…and doesn’t need him now.
Didn’t White talk the Ferrita brothers into buying the UFC? I think his vision and drive are absolutely instrumental to the current condition of the UFC and MMA in America.
He may be a foulmouthed asshole that doesn’t pay his fighters a big purse but he belongs in the MMA Hall of Fame.[/quote]
[quote]Mick28 wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
Mick28 wrote:
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Not really…it was an idea who’s time had come. I do give credit to the Fertita’s for having the connections to get state boxing commissions to go along with mma (when do you think New York will wise up?). The sport needed those two guys to come along when they did. It never needed Dana White…and doesn’t need him now.
Didn’t White talk the Ferrita brothers into buying the UFC? I think his vision and drive are absolutely instrumental to the current condition of the UFC and MMA in America.
He may be a foulmouthed asshole that doesn’t pay his fighters a big purse but he belongs in the MMA Hall of Fame.
Good point Zap…if that story is true then White deserves a prominent place in mma history.[/quote]
It was a feature story that was broadcast on Spike a year ago Mick, and the Ferrita bros. were in it so I would say that pretty much confirms it. ← btw, that wasn’t meant to sound like a smart ass