Dana White talked to Ariel Helwani Thursday, addressing some hot stories surrounding UFC On Fox 2.
Hours before his personal information was strewn about the Internet, UFC President Dana White talked to MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani about a litany of topics that included UFC On Fox 2 production and more.
Some highlights:
- White said he's seen nothing like Chael Sonnen toting around a fake UFC title belt and addresses whether Sonnen's claims about increasing ticket sales are accurate.
- He talked about Chris Weidman's opportunity Saturday against Demian Maia and if there was any concern about the short notice Weidman got.
- He revealed that Curt Menefee, Randy Couture and Jon Jones will be at the analyst desk for the show and that undercard fights will air if the three main card fights are short. According to White, it will be "a lot more fighting, a lot less talking."
- He talked about the ratings expectations for Saturday given the 8.8 peak of the November event.
In the most interesting portion considering what happened Thursday night, White addressed "the hackers" and went on an odd tirade about how the media is "scared of the Internet" which Helwani tried to clarify. White said last week's UFC.com URL redirection is "the best thing they could have ever done" as they "flipped the switch", alluding that their activity is terrorist-like and got the attention of the U.S. government.
White's comments to Helwani made the International Business Times (UK) story on the "Anonymous" attacks on he and the UFC:
"All these hackers and all these guys that want to act f*****g cool and think they're f*****g funny, you guys just flipped the switch and believe me I have a lot more information on what's going on than you do," said White. This bill that was looking like it was going to be dead, you may have brought it back to life."
Finally adding: "I'm not afraid of you, you don't f*****g scare me, you come in and do your thing, you don't scare me."
Watch the 11-minute clip in full after the jump.
0 recs | 43 comments
Because the government
had no idea who Anonymous was until they redirected your website, Dana.
Mandmeisterx - January 27, 2012
Dana baited them into last night's attacks so he could BACKTRACE them
And now Palhares and Cody McKenzie are out there snapping legs and necks.
menckenstein - January 27, 2012
YOU DONE GOOFED!
YPG - January 27, 2012
Did you know that guy died?
Pretty sure he had a heart attack or something. The joke is still funny though.
Tim Bernier - January 27, 2012
I kinda (absolutely) love this idea.
That Dana White’s response to being targeted is militarizing his roster to go scour basements around the world for nefarious internet hackers.
THIS NEEDS TO BE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
krcampbell - January 27, 2012
I heard that guy passed away last year :/
In Rainbows - January 27, 2012
He did
He also beat the shit out of his daughter and she was put into foster care
menckenstein - January 27, 2012
Who?
aaronb - January 27, 2012
The "You dun goofed" / "Consequences will never be the same" dad from the Jessi Slaughter video
menckenstein - January 27, 2012
I thought that was a caricature of Cody McKenzie that Anon was using for their twitter thumbnail avatar. :)
YoungGun - January 27, 2012
Dana really thinks UFC.com being hacked is going to revive the Bills??
YPG - January 27, 2012
He's Dana White.
Unabomberman - January 27, 2012
The bills were always going to be redrafted.
That was the whole point of the protest, the version they were trying to pass was way too broad. The protest removed popular support for those versions so they’ll have to redraft it into something that’s more “acceptable” for a vote.
The big media companies still want more power to take down “pirates” and last time I checked they still had plenty of lobbiests in Washington.
squaresphere - January 27, 2012
dana madddd
Kevin Jennison J. Zametov-St Pierre - January 27, 2012
Oh, Dana...
Unabomberman - January 27, 2012
These guys are scary
At any point they can tap into this website and direct it to a WWE fan site. You better be scared.
Coeman - January 27, 2012
They did it already
In the week leading up to Lesnar vs Overeem
BKdroid - January 27, 2012
Nice
Coeman - January 27, 2012
he really did taunt them
I just can’t feel bad for the guy. And I definitely see him being on the wrong side of this argument,
troyd - January 27, 2012 via mobile
Dana White
Trying to tell Ariel he and other journalists are afraid of the internet and he’s not was lame. He still doesn’t get it and someone on his team needs to pull him to the side and tell him to STFU. You are never going to win a war with those guys or the internet in general.
milliondollardreams - January 27, 2012
Seriously Dana has to be the easiest trolling target on the planet. The moment he responded to any of the Anti-Sec/LulzSec/Anon motherfuckery he fucked up royally; they might not do serious permanent damage but they can really fuck you up for quite a while until their ADD kicks in and they go to another target.
Odds are they’ll kill any sort of Fox Sports site/stream this weekend, kill UFC.tv, probably find a way to kill any UFC service on Xbox, and more than likely start wrecking his twitter, the ufc’s twitter, and any sort of mechanism attached to the internet at the UFC offices… also lots of pizza orders that nobody made, black faxes to waste toner, war dials on their phone lines… etc etc.
SOPA/PIPA won’t pass at all without massive massive revisions, and even then odds are it will get killed. The amount of coordination the internet has when someone really threatens parts of it is pretty incredible; the moment anything comes back up as a bill (if it significantly oversteps bounds again) we’ll have more website blackouts and odds are it won’t be for a day anymore, it’ll be a week.
What Dana, and clearly the government don’t understand is that the majority of the people doing the internet motherfuckery are the cybersecurity specialists that everyone hires to do the exact opposite.
The bureaucratic collective of this country has absolutely zero idea about what is going on because they’re all crypt-keeper age; if anyone caught the Daily Show’s replay of the SOPA/PIPA meetings on C-Span you understand my point…
Patrick Tenney - January 27, 2012
Its like drugs
You will never win that war.
Coeman - January 27, 2012
Exactly, any time someone comes up with a plan to “stop” or “block” some sort of technological access the odds are they also create a work-around that either they will release or some 15 year old genius will find after looking at what they did and then calling them a moron.
Patrick Tenney - January 27, 2012
You know what I think is going to happen?
Fox Network is going to put a muzzle on him. And if he doesn’t shut up and their revenues are affected by anon, there will be consequences, it could sour the deal. This is big boy town! Pride doesn’t matter and exposing the revenue stream to unnecessary risk is not an option that a publicly traded company is going to tolerate in an associate or partner. I bet it comes down from Murdoch-land that this issue goes away. The funny part will be seeing how theymake him do it. Does he have to tweet an apology?
How bad do you want to see Dana White apologizing when you know hes psychotically enraged?
DankNabbot - January 27, 2012
Murdoch went off on twitter even more then Dana did. So far I haven’t heard about him getting personally hacked or Fox/Fox News being attacked because of it.
YoungGun - January 27, 2012
if SOPA/PIPA gets passed it will just create a more fragmented internet.
DirtyML - January 27, 2012
Damn sonnnn
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/1/27/2752331/opufc-anonymous-dana-white-ufc-hacked
Cunny - January 27, 2012
Dana’s lack of understanding that it is not a conglomerate of internet users that he should be afraid of makes it very disturbing that he is the figurehead for a 21st century business.
Internet journalists are not afraid of people like Anon because their dictation of privacy laws matters a lot less than say, a president of an emerging sport that uses high technology to create revenue.
Dana has to take his head out of his ass and realize that his “tough guy” posture is just shooting himself in the foot at this point.
DirtyML - January 27, 2012
This is weird
WanderChe - January 27, 2012
Dana, middle school is over.
Why don’t you try winning an argument with reason and facts instead of taunts and talking over people. I like you, but your stock is going down more and more these days. Someone get this man some warm milk and a backrub.
NickRingp4pGOAT - January 27, 2012
Its really unfortunate that all of this is happening right before the FOX card.
Can’t we just go back to way things used to be? The good ol’ days when Dana could revoke a few press passes and everyone would move on. I’m not sure how Dana thinks he can win this battle.
I_Mad - January 27, 2012 via mobile
I'd be more worried if I were him.
Apparently it hasn’t occured to him that it is not just him, now, but his kids and family that are quite likely gonna get doxed and cyber bullied from here on out.
A huge mob of people seeing red cannot be reasoned with, but Dana seems to think that he can out-toughguy them and then it’ll all go away.
Someone should show Dana the following schematic to ellucidate my point:
Unabomberman - January 27, 2012
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menckenstein - January 27, 2012
I really think this is getting a bit out of hand. Personally I don’t think this guy will stop targetting Dana.
jack knight starman - January 27, 2012
YOU"RE SCORCHED EARTH, ANONYMOUS!!!!!!
Wait, why won’t my credit cards work?
Machiel Van - January 27, 2012
You’re missing a key part of the quote. It’s not just
His full quote ….you come in and do your thing, do it again, i dont care, you don’t scare me, internet" adds a dimesion of hilarity as he makes it clear he is talking to servers and storage devices.
Seriously tho, dana has no choice but to respond in some fashion when reportes ask him about these attacks. He should never respond to them directly on twitter but what else can he do besides calling these “activists” cyber bullies?
Hardy's in your face - January 27, 2012
These idiots are going to get this bill passed
Meek Mill - January 27, 2012
That is what I think as well. Demonstrations like this just give ammo to lobbyists to bend congress’s ear that if they don’t pass this SOPA/PIPA bill that they need to come back with something. Eventually they will get something that the legit mainstream websites that participated in the 1 day blackouts will tolerate.
YoungGun - January 27, 2012
Exactly
Completely counter productive
Stiff Jab - January 27, 2012
Dana thinks that the government is now aware of anon because of yesterday.
Jeezuz this dude is delusional.
RolloTomasi - January 27, 2012
His bubble is very small
Vegas, Pinkberrys, combat sports, 90’s rock. It’s pretty amazing whenever anything breaks through, like the time he said he was excited to have Limp Bizkit performing at an event (like 4 years ago?) and EVERYONE went wtfno.
Cory Braiterman - January 27, 2012
dw your in the fight business not the internet security buisness
he says some crazy things sometimes that make you go haha other times its just stupid
MaZZacare - January 27, 2012
They way he talks about it, I'm not sure Dana has a clear grasp of what the internet is.
Robust23 - January 27, 2012
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