Dana White explains why he has ‘completely removed himself’ from negotiating with UFC fighters

Dana White has finally explained the explanation why he has no involvement in fight negotiations any more inside the UFC.

For years, the corporate CEO would get his hands dirty in talking to just about all fighters across levels as a way to get deals done. Nevertheless, White’s day-to-day has modified drastically for the reason that 2016 sale to Endeavor and now he could be very much in additional of a figurehead position.

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Hunter Campbell, the UFC’s Chief Business Officer, is now tasked with many of the heavy lifting in the case of fight negotiations.

Why Dana White not negotiates with UFC fighters

It has been years since Dana White was actively involved in speaking directly with fighters about their contracts within the UFC. Now he’s more involved within the business end of the corporate and other ventures reminiscent of Zuffa Boxing, Power Slap and general TKO Group activities.

“We were a small business,” he told SPEED on Fox. “We began to grow the relationships with the Chuck Liddells and the Matt Hughes of the early days right as much as Conor McGregor, Ronda Rousey, Cowboy Cerrone.

“And the list goes on and on it got to some extent where – we discuss Cowboy – this guy was all the time doing something crazy.

“In order soon as he got his cheque, he was blowing it. He’s buying boats, jet skis, all types of toys. But every time anything would go fallacious in these guys’ personal lives we were the primary call they might make for things like that.

“Obviously it’s grown and I even have completely removed myself from the negotiating a part of fighter contracts. I got to the purpose where it’s just ‘this isn’t fun any more’. I’m lucky that I’m at some extent in my life and my profession where I can just cope with the fun stuff that I prefer to do.”