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Dana White: The 60 Minutes Interview

2025-09-29 News & Politics
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Dana White Built the UFC into a Multi-Billion Dollar Global Empire

Learn how Dana White leveraged aggressive management and instinct—rather than standard business playbooks—to transform unorganized cage fighting into a mainstream global sports entity valued over $15 billion.

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  • White and his partners famously acquired the struggling UFC for only $2 million, growing its valuation to over $15 billion with 675 fighters under contract.
  • The business heavily relies on White’s uncompromising personality, setting precedents like aggressive management control and firm stances on fighter free speech.
  • A massive $7.7 billion media rights deal proves the sport's legitimacy, though questions remain about proportionate fighter pay increases. This segment details the aggressive, instinct-driven journey of Dana White, charting the UFC’s explosive growth from unsanctioned fringes to legitimate mainstream sports status, including his personal relationships with power brokers like Donald Trump.

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UFC CEO Dana White explains how he helped turn the UFC into a global empire worth billions. He talks about his friendship with President Trump and his plans for a 2026 fight on the White House lawn. #news #ufc #sports "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@millieatr 2025-09-29

60 minutes is consistent , every 5 years they have a guest i want to watch

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@Winning_HC 2025-09-29

Gambling 1.2M like its a hundred bucks is wild

657 23 replies
@jasonventura7790 2025-09-29

Dana White: The 13 Minute Interview*

469 8 replies
@jonathanjones6665 2025-09-29

The last quote of the video was epic 😂

451 7 replies
@derekblackthorne 2025-09-29

God bless Lorenzo Fertitta for not throwing in the towel. I quit watching every other sport after I started watching the UFC regularly back in 2004. I miss the Zuffa years.

413 10 replies
@Aqua_Holic_Fishing 2025-10-02

The one and only time I will watch 60 Minutes, but only for 13 minutes.

308 4 replies
@elder-brad 2025-09-29

Perhaps the biggest and most important topic around Dana White right now is his desire to change the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act. The fact that this wasn't even brought up tells you all you need to know about this interview.

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@siborgi19 2025-09-29

This was the most lenient interview in 60 minutes history and I love MMA.

167 5 replies
@LimerickR266 2025-10-01

It's been an incredible journey for Dana and the UFC. To see how the UFC started and where Dana helped get it too today is incredible.

11 1 replies
@Birdcageproduction 2025-09-29

Dana with 60 mins interview before gta 6.

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