Dana White on Max Holloway knockout: ‘That was the biggest holy s*** moment of all time’

growing up, just one more for me, so we're talking about having UFC in the sphere for Mexican Independence Day weekend recently matrium has floated the idea of ​​maybe bringing in Katie Taylor and Amanda Serano as their rematch. in the sphere uh maybe already in June how do you feel about that? And I know it's been a big deal being the first Combat Sports operation to enter the sphere. I love Eddie Hearn. I consider him a friend. It will not happen. I'm sorry. Eddie I love you buddy, you can go to this show in October Dana, down here, you said earlier this week that you think in the future you'll eventually be able to headline this event because you have a history of headlining your

biggest

events, right?

I think after watching tonight that will be possible. That's a great question brother and here we are again. I say it all the

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. How can we beat 300? I don't know, I don't know the answer to that question, but we are. I'm going to find out that you were very generous with the news of uh 301 302 and 303 um any updates on 304 potentially rumored for the UK, which is the UK fight, yeah, yeah, we haven't done anything yet, but already I said. "We're going to Manchester, we don't have a deal done, we don't have anything done yet, but we're going to Manchester and let me remind everyone what it's like to be in Manchester at one of the

biggest

events I've ever had.

I've been there when we went for First

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to Manchester, that place is amazing, the fans, the crowd, you know, I'm looking forward to it, you mentioned obviously it was 8:04 pm I think, but that was 3:00 in the morning, was it at. a normal time in the UK? We don't have a deal done yet. I don't know anything yet. Okay, thank you, Dana. Currently, the fight between Yan and He attracts 30 billion views on social media in China. , from your perspective 30 30 billion 30 billion views on social media, so from your perspective, how big is the fight? You know, the impact on Asian marketing for you, great question, sir,?

Where are you from China? I figured, but where are you from? Oh, I'm from Mig China. Mig okay, I got it, so no one knows better than you how hard it is to be the number one trend in China. We have been number one for 2 days trending in China, exactly which one. It's amazing and yeah, this was a massive sporting event in China, it's like the first time we did well in China, this is the first time we really made a breakthrough in China and and and like I didn't know the 30 billion, like this which thank you yeah it's been amazing no problem sir yeah just follow the second question you know probably not this year but how soon do you want to bring the UFC back to China after you know yeah , someone asked me that before.

I don't know exactly when we'll be back there, but a night like this doesn't hurt and, yeah, that's it, it's all good. I'm excited, thank you, thank you, thank you, sir, one more, the last one right here, um, I want. to ask you about the entertainment environment in um with the bracelets uh and everything that everyone wears on their wrists and all that with the lights along with the show and the atmosphere and things like that, what did you do with that? I did it, what's the question? What did I do with that? I did it in terms of that's what we do.

Your expectations versus reality. It was incredible. So you know what I did during one of the fights. You know, people always ask this question. I look at the monitor. I watch very little live, I watch from time to time and I'm on my phone all the time, people think I don't care about the fights, all I care about is the production. in-house live production and TV production, so tonight I left during one of the fights and I went back to my green room and I looked at we had a big screen there and I saw it on TV and with the lights and everything.

It was amazing, it looked amazing on TV, um, like I always say about Power Slap and obviously UFC, production is incredibly important to me, it's, it's, it's, uh, the only things that I really focus on. daily is in finding young and promising talents. making sure we get the right fights in the right place at the right time and in-house live TV production and I mean in-house production and live TV production F, that's what I focus on literally every day in the office, um and others. little here and there, but that's my main focus, so when we have an event like tonight and you look at the young talent that is on the card tonight, how they performed, how things looked internally and how the energy felt on the buzz and how it looked on TV, and then you look at the fights that happened tonight, you couldn't have a bigger home run than tonight, so I hope that answered your question that you asked and a quick follow up on drus um , was seen in the crowd. and all that, do you have any plans on where you'll have him, who he'll fight, if it'll be Izzy or the Whitaker chamaya winner, anything like that?

We are working on it, thank you, thank you all. having a great night