More sportsDana White (53) started 2023 on a big false note. The big boss of the UFC, the Champions League of the Mixed Martial Arts, got into a fight with his wife Anne (53) at a New Year’s party. Images of the incident circulated on social media and White also apologized.
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Dana and Anne White headed to Mexico to celebrate the transition from 2022 to 2023. But things went wrong at the El Squid Roe club in Cabo San Lucas. The couple got into a fight in the VIP area of the nightclub and there were heavy blows. A video doing the rounds on Twitter shows how Anne first punches her husband in the face. Dana does the same afterwards, after which bystanders intervene.
The American news site TMZ confronted Dana White with the images. He confirmed that the video is real and apologized. “I’ve been saying for years that there’s never a valid excuse for a man to hit his wife, but now I’m in that situation myself,” White said.
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There was certainly a lot of alcohol involved, but that’s no excuse. I literally have no excuses.
Dana White at TMZ
“There was certainly a lot of alcohol involved, but that is no excuse. I literally have no excuses. This has never happened before and I can’t explain it. My wife and I have since apologized to each other. And of course also with our children.” Anne White agreed with that statement, according to TMZ. She and Dana have been married for 26 and have three children.
“We’ve known each other since we were twelve years old,” concluded the MMA boss. “This is a terrible situation. Those images are terrible and I am ashamed of it.”
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Dana White is the most powerful man in the MMA world. Since 2001, he has been the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the premier league of mixed martial arts that he grew into a billion-dollar business. It is partly thanks to White that MMA players such as Conor McGregor or Khabib Nurmagomedov became world stars. White’s fortune is estimated at $ 500 million (about 475 million euros).
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