Dana White Under Oath Claimed He Made Conor a Star

[ThunderStruck]

It's 100% true. Conor was nothing before than 1 year press conference tour before the first aldo fight. Thats when we got to see the Conor who prepares his trash talking lines the night before press conferences and everyne of his dumbass fanbois falling in love with it.

 

[fiftywattmafia]

Conor knocked the shit out of a lot of people, is Irish and got a huge following for his take on the world attitude (that he used to have)

Dana has nothing to do with it IMO.

 

[Chad W]

dana is also the reason UFC needs stars again letting his top draw go get his ass whooped boxing

 

[fiftywattmafia]

It's 100% true. Conor was nothing before than 1 year press conference tour before the first aldo fight. Thats when we got to see the Conor who prepares his trash talking lines the night before press conferences and everyne of his dumbass fanbois falling in love with it.

So Dana scheduled a press conference and that makes him responsible for Conor's success? Got it.

Did he tell him what to say, too?

 

[The ScorpioN]

Like Holloway, Poirier, Aldo, Mendes, Diaz, and Alvarez? Yeah super easy fights.

Not easy.

Favorable.

Only Mendes was a stylistic nightmare, and he came in on like a week's notice just happy to be getting his first ever big paycheck.

 

[21 Savage]

they funded him with rentals from jets to cars to suits to the tuf mansion

it helped him getting money persona when really he was on 100/100

real af

conor had "mcmansion" when his biggest fight was dennis siver

 

[LSU]

First of all Conor was 12-2 when he signed with the UFC but yes Dana did make him a star. That’s his job....he is Conor’s promoter.

 

[Workaholic]

All Dana did was give Conor a platform to make himself a star. Same with Ronda. He didn't actually do a ton. And then there are cases like GSP, Anderson, Jones etc. where he actively hampered his fighter from becoming more of a star

Dana has benefitted the company but he hasn't actually benefitted a fighter since Chuck and Tito. which coincidentally are two guys he used to rep

 

[Cake4Breakfast]

Conor made Conor a mega star, not Dana White.

Conor said his words and won his fights (not everyone the UFC has pushed has been able to do this, e.g., Huerta), but of course the UFC helped him by matching his fights to his strengths. The card with Siver was basically a McGregor infomercial.

 

[Johnny_Knuckles]

Was Cage Warriors making millions thanks to Conor?

Way to miss the point.

Conor was already making waves in Europe before Dana caught wind. What Conor did was replicate his success and persona on a bigger stage and everyone lapped it up, and with that came the millions.

Conor wasn’t some 7-2 jobber like Dana has tried to imply, somewhat embarrassingly.

 

[209NickDiaz]

lol! Shertards as usual... anyone with common sense knew they helped and used each other as in any real world businesses...

How old r u guys? Bunch of kids? Did u guys ever negotiated business contract of any form? It’s mutual benefits u can’t take one away and just credit one of them

 

[EndlessCritic]

He did give Conor favorable match-ups to build him up.

LOL yea max holloway in his second ufc fight. please.

 

[The ScorpioN]

LOL yea max holloway in his second ufc fight. please.

He was supposed to fight the Miller. The BJJer with 0 wrestling.

Green Max stepped in on short notice.

Max is also a favorable match up for Conor even today. Conor sons him again.

 

[Migdagen]

Damn I hate Dana. Such a narcisic duche. Conor did most of everything, unless Dana was writing his lines and showed him how to throw a left punch. Now, he did gave Conor a large view relatively early on, but that is it!

 

[Kirin]

Without the UFC Conor would be an unemployed plumber. Literally.

Fixed that for you to make it more accurate.

 

[ThunderStruck]

So Dana scheduled a press conference and that makes him responsible for Conor's success? Got it.

Did he tell him what to say, too?

A whole fucking year of press conferences.

 

[Silverstar17]

The UFC gave him a platform. He would be nowhere near where he is now without them.

Also the UFC is obviously not able to build up anyone else like that. They worked well together.

 

[acannxr]

The ongoing UFC anti-trust lawsuit continues to reveal interesting tidbits, including that Dana White very much takes credit for Conor McGregor’s rise. He stated the following in a deposition.

“Four years ago, Conor McGregor was available to everybody. Bellator, ONE FC, UFC, everybody out there. Do you know who went out- he was- he was 7 and 2, Okay? Guy’s record was 7 and 2. There’s a zillion of them, right? I went out and got Conor McGregor. I saw him, I liked his personality, and I turned him into a star, one of the biggest stars on earth right...”

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This is factually incorrect as well as misleading; McGregor was already a two-weight champion in Cage Warriors with considerable hype, and his record was 12-2 when the UFC signed him.

https://www.mmamania.com/2018/2/22/...-credit-for-conor-mcgregor-rise-in-deposition

He did give Conor favorable match-ups to build him up.

Conor is responsible for everything that is Conor but he did get some help from the ufc

He did a little as he was the one who gave him the opportunity to shine on the big stage but Conor did the rest.

Conor made Conor a mega star, not Dana White.

He gave Conor a bigger platform, but Conor made himself a star. He is the one who made the fight predictions and delivered, not Dana White.

Why hasn't Dana White made a star since Conor McGregor? Exactly.

Colin got handed high end manlets on a platter and slayed them left and right.

Without Dana there would be no Conor. Conor still had to perform but Dana set him up for W from the start.

He helped a lot. But it obviously helped that Conor backed it all up

Conor is 100x better at self-promotion than White ever was at promotion.

Zuffa did make Conor into a huge star

they funded him with rentals from jets to cars to suits to the tuf mansion

it helped him getting money persona when really he was on 100/100

the ufc invested in him and it paid off

which is why i always say Ronda > Conor

she didn't need all the funding or stacked cards

floyd took conor above ronda

this is nothing new
said it years ago

gave him good match ups
tv interview
magazine covers

pretended he was a millionaire when he wasn't

if you vote for anything under most
you're a clueless casual who probably os dumb enough to believe conor made 100m from the Floyd fight

Just because he's the prez of the UFC, the default "some". The gazillion Conor vids UFC put up didn't come from him. Pressers were run by Conor, not Dana. Then the performances. Dana didn't have much to do with this.

IF Dana can make a fighter a star, why is he holding back? He could make millions more if he just used his powers of sorcery.

If Dana could make stars he would make a lot more.

It's all Conor.

Like Holloway, Poirier, Aldo, Mendes, Diaz, and Alvarez? Yeah super easy fights.

It's 100% true. Conor was nothing before than 1 year press conference tour before the first aldo fight. Thats when we got to see the Conor who prepares his trash talking lines the night before press conferences and everyne of his dumbass fanbois falling in love with it.

Conor knocked the shit out of a lot of people, is Irish and got a huge following for his take on the world attitude (that he used to have)

Dana has nothing to do with it IMO.

So Dana scheduled a press conference and that makes him responsible for Conor's success? Got it.

Did he tell him what to say, too?

Not easy.

Favorable.

Only Mendes was a stylistic nightmare, and he came in on like a week's notice just happy to be getting his first ever big paycheck.

real af

conor had "mcmansion" when his biggest fight was dennis siver

All Dana did was give Conor a platform to make himself a star. Same with Ronda. He didn't actually do a ton. And then there are cases like GSP, Anderson, Jones etc. where he actively hampered his fighter from becoming more of a star

Dana has benefitted the company but he hasn't actually benefitted a fighter since Chuck and Tito. which coincidentally are two guys he used to rep

Dana helped Conor's career by talking about him in interviews, featuring him in commercials/advertisements, and most importantly protecting him through matchmaking.

#30 Brimage: Striker
#67 Holloway: Striker
#30 Brandao: Striker/BJJ
#10 Poirier: Striker/BJJ
#19 Siver: Striker/BJJ | Title Eliminator

Just look at that for a second: no wrestlers and he received a title eliminator fight against the #19 ranked Featherweight. To understand that kind of absurdity: if you did the same thing at the same time in the Lightweight division that would be equivalent to #7 Gilbert Melendez receiving a title eliminator fight against #19 Joe Lauzon.

Meanwhile, at the same time McGregor received a title eliminator against Siver, you had #2 Edgar, #3 Mendes, and #5 Lamas all ranked above #7 McGregor with Lentz being at #9. What they all have in common? Wrestling backgrounds. You also had #6 Swanson whose a very unorthodox striker and had only ever been knocked out once (vs. Aldo, 2009).

Is it any wonder that the UFC tied up all these stylistic nightmares by pairing them against one another? Edgar/Swanson on Nov 2014, Mendes/Lamas on Apr 2015, and Lentz/Oliveira on May 2015.

Booking a short-notice Mendes against McGregor was an acceptable risk for the UFC, especially given the amount of money they had dumped into promoting UFC 189. And we saw what happened while Mendes had energy...

 

[Mixedfights]

Since he has that ability.....we can expect 50 Conors incoming.

Fuck outta here.

 

[bigconan]

He gave Conor a bigger platform, but Conor made himself a star. He is the one who made the fight predictions and delivered, not Dana White.

Why hasn't Dana White made a star since Conor McGregor? Exactly.

his mouth made the hype, his fists backed it up and solidified the hype...one without the other, wouldn't have accounted for his extreme rise...talking incredible trash...yet backing up every word...saying he would ko aldo in the 1st round and doing it, is one example of why he became so big...