Dana White

Dana White was born July 28, 1969 in Manchester, Connecticut is the current President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States. In 1992, White established Dana White Enterprises in [[[Las Vegas]]. He conducted aerobics classes at three gyms in the Las Vegas area and began managing MMA fighters Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell. While working as a manager, White learned that Semaphore Entertainment Group, the parent company of the UFC, was looking for a buyer for the UFC. White contacted childhood friend Lorenzo Fertitta, an executive at Station Casinos, and a former commissioner of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Within a month, Lorenzo and his older brother Frank bought the UFC, with White named as its president. Dana White currently owns 10% of Zuffa, LLC, the parent company the Fertitta brothers created to own and manage the UFC. http://www.entrepreneur.com/ufc

On April 1, 2009, White was videotaped in a verbal tirade against Loretta Hunt, a sportswriter for Sherdog, in response to an article she wrote. In the video posted on his YouTube account, White used derogatory language in an obscenity-laced rant. The video was pulled from his official UFC YouTube page but has been widely republished across the internet and come under fire, including by GLAAD for his use of anti-gay slurs. White would later apologize for his slurs. http://www.mmafighting.com/2009/04/02/ufc-pulls-video-of-dana-white-trashing-loretta-hunt/