Dana White doesn’t hide his fondness for Ronda Rousey. She’s one of the UFC’s top draws and a personal friend of the UFC president, which is why Dana felt for her after her loss to Holly Holm.
“Me and 57,240 people in the arena were obviously shocked,” White said. “I’m never shocked at somebody losing, but it’s the way that she lost that’s so shocking. Obviously, everybody is saying, ‘He’s devastated.’ He’s this, he’s that. Listen, I always call myself the bells and whistles guy. We put on all the bells and whistles, we promote the show. They step in the Octagon and whatever happens is determined by them.
“But in the history of the UFC, there’s been two people — Chuck Liddell that I was very close to and Ronda Rousey I’m very close to. She’s one of my very good friends, so to see her lose that way, yeah it was tough.”
Many would say his relationship is a conflict of interest but no matter how close he is to a fighter it can’t change what happens in the octagon. Ronda Rousey found that out first hand.
