Dana White details plans for UFC Fight in the Sphere 👀 | The Pat McAfee Show

Dana White details plans for UFC Fight in the Sphere 👀 | The Pat McAfee Show
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0:00 Any progress on a UFC Fight in the Sphere?
7:40 Any venues you are looking to get too?
9:50 Cold plunging
11:10 Rematch fights

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Uh joining us now ladies and gentlemen is one of the best businessmen in the history of America not only the president of the UFC but also one of the founders of the uh yeah slap slap League slap League which I can’t wait to get an update on friend of the program building

Towards UFC 300 ladies and gentlemen Dana White yeah Dana Yeah you too how are you brother great to see you my friend what’s up man how you doing this is this guy’s town I should have said yeah it is guy looks great Dana M of the golden knights he got anointed last night he got anoint I

Could tell yeah he said he could tell you look like a player yeah thank you appreciate it if you see him just walking around you say that guy’s a member of the golden knights right there yeah yeah no scrap Scrappy third liner yeah yeah you know not not going to get

A whole bunch of minutes but I’m going to make the minutes count when I’m in there he’s a goon too not scared to wrap it up a little bit with the boys he was also on uh completely blacked out and doesn’t remember any of it but he did

This last night Dana if you ever need need somebody to start a UFC event get him on to siren he’ll go absolutely bananas up there uh your city is playing host to the biggest game in the world obviously last night we could feel it at the golden kns game this is going to

Continue to build Las Vegas feels like the perfect place to host something obviously you’ve had a lot of success how do you think this week pans out yeah I mean this is the greatest sports town in the world I love this city so I’m very biased but uh you know I was just

We were at dinner last night we were talking about and people can’t wrap their head around this but back in back in the 7s and ‘ 80s the UNLV Running Rebels were like the biggest thing in in this city it was like I’m telling you it’s like the golden knights now but um

This was always meant to be a sports Town once all the leagues got over gambling you know uh there there’s slot machines in the in the NFL radio row right over there think about that that never we got a blackjack T well it’s not even about that it’s about sports

Betting you know they couldn’t get over the sports betting once that all get out and you know it’s it’s very regulated now but when you think about if you live in another city and you’re going to go to an away away game what a away game

You going to you’re coming to me tell you’re not going to Cleveland okay you’re you’re coming to Vegas for the away game and it’s worked out obviously every sport is trying to get in here the NFL has had success here with the Raiders obviously in the Chiefs division

So that’s going to be tough the Vegas uh Aces two time Champions the golden Knight Stanley Cup champions right now yeah MLB a are coming here yeah so it’s I mean this going to be the epicenter the problem is for Vegas right now you know I’m sure you guys have been hearing

This too people can’t fly their planes in here right now yeah there’s no they need to build an a bigger airport you need like tomorrow why don’t you do that yeah I’ve seen your office I’m surprised you don’t have an airport right outside

Of um I I I got enough stuff to do last thing I need to be doing is building airports but this city seriously in all seriousness before soccer gets here before baseball gets here and before um the NBA gets here they need to build an

An airport a lot of space out there just build a couple runways over all those dead bodies in there ex I mean that is is there’s plenty of desert out there build a bigger airport or one of these private companies need to come in and build a bigger private airport but it’s

Serious there’s plenty of hotel rooms here there’s plenty of restaurants everything else is here the city isn’t ready for all these planes Dana I was at the sphere last night I know you’ve talked about it maybe I’m out of the loop on it but has there been any

Progress towards a UFC fight in the sphere well what’ you think place is insane I mean it’s truly truly mind bogging what show did you go to I just watched like the the postcard from Earth like awesome I haven’t seen that yet I saw you two you two is what maybe

So you two is using this much of the capabilities of the sphere 60,000 bucks for the suite I’m going today $60,000 we paid for this Suite it better be a good show they need to use a little bit more of that sphere is it you two you’re

Going to yeah today listen you’re you’re going to love it it’s awesome all right the sphere is the star of the show it’s it’s well worth going anybody who comes in town you have to go to the sphere I haven’t seen the movie yet I want to

Check that out but it’s the closest to Virtual Reality I’ve ever like you feel like you are literally somewhere else it’s incredible awesome it’s awesome it really is awesome that’s why I went and and and uh and saw the the YouTube show and like I said they’re using this much

Of the capabilities I’m going to use this much I’m going to put on the greatest live sporting event anybody has ever seen and and what happened was after they did the show and people started looking at they’re like ah this is cool for concerts but you can’t do Live Events

Here when you say you’ll unlock more of the capabilities What in in what terms all right so you’re sitting here right and and and you’re watching the show and you’re watching the show in English yes he’s sitting in that seat he can watch it in Spanish French the speakers are

Aimed directly at the seats there there’s so many things that you can do the rumble pack in the seats where like you get session actually hey hold on Dana I wouldn’t mind just dabbling into the French commentary about just kind of bounce back and forth is this the type of

Person you are though because I feel like this is what’s going to happen to me now with the way I’m hearing the way you took in the YouTube show is I’m going to be on anywhere between 90 to 250 milligrams can’t going in there I definitely wasn’t doing that no but well

I know you’re super fit and in shape now with the red light and everything you got this guy doing it for 45 minutes because you’re doing it he’s a whole new human got me considering fasting over here water fasting I’ve heard about this it’s all legit a big like whenever you

Go somewhere it’s like oh this would be so dope to do something in here is that how you’ve always been and that why is that why you think like you continue to be able to evolve so the first thing that happened I was blown away by the

Fear when I went in there and the first thing that happened was uh everybody started talking about it’s great it’s an amazing experience for concerts and this that and then you had the people with the negative uh you could never pull off a show in there and it’ll be too expens

It’ll be this and that so we’re going in there during Mexican Independence Day and I’m going to put on the greatest event anybody’s ever seen and it’s going to be um this huge Love Letter to all the all all of combat and Combat Sports throughout the history of Mexico some of

The baddest dudes that have ever walked the face of this Earth have been Mexican and uh a Mexican Independence Day I’m gonna deliver the craziest show anybody’s ever seen and I’m gonna tell you this too a Mexican fighter in every fight is that what that means is that a

Yeah well there’ll be yeah there’ll be tons of great Mexican fighters on there but not everybody will be Mexican but um uh uh what we’re going to pull off there will never be done again you won’t do it again what if you you won’t want to do

It again you won’t to do like a Fourth of July nobody’s going to be willing to spend the money that that’s what I’m saying how much do you like you’re willing to invest it though just to have the event to be epic is I assume what

You’re trying to do as we get closer I want to talk to you again as we get closer we’re can lay out more of the details on this thing and and kind of tee it up for you what we’re going to do I’m not playing around with this I I am

Going in here guns are blazing and I’m going to blow everybody’s mind with this event yeah if you’re going to have the greatest sports event of all time we would certainly like to talk to you as we get closer to it secure a a ticket of admission to that that sounds fantastic

60,000 bucks for a ticket is that what you’re going to do for this place I saw the price that’s a question I have is the financial Logistics of it because it’s only 5,000 seats or whatever it is it’s obviously different than 5,000 18 is is it 18 J you were there this guy

Was on more Edibles than me I was I was floting I was floting was yeah this guy’s on more Edibles than me Dana I was worried about people going to the Dead concert like I mean you go in there rolling those are some steep steep stairs I so true somebody could take a

DI you know if they could pull it off you know would be a great show in there is Pink Floyd oh God pink Floy awesome dark side of the moon be on a different planet a pure different planet AJ has a question for you are there any other

Venues around the world that you haven’t gotten to that you want to and you you just haven’t been able to put it together yet uh no I mean we’ve done all the big Arenas and world we broke most of the records and all the is we’re

We’re number one two three and five at Madison Square Garden all time pretty good and and um yeah this one this one was uh you know a challenge and something different and I just love it I love that how hands on are you still with the business every day everything I

Get there at 8:30 in the morning I leave at 700 still everything you did before you’re still doing now yeah well no no no I mean in the earlier days when we first started you know I was in budget meetings three times a week I Don’t Go

Near budget meetings anymore I don’t I uh you know I well they’re trying to kick out The Spar show for sure 100% yeah our CFO doesn’t like the sphere but uh I do uh yeah I don’t I I do the stuff that I still love to do I I

Do the fun stuff okay before a couple UFC questions and SL how’s slap we still slapping slapping Friday this Friday man Friday it’s our first time out of the Apex sold out at Durango station and uh yeah you sold out a uh a what is Durango we’re we’re we’re over there in their

Ballroom so we did VIP packages $300,000 gate this weekend for the power slap people slapping each other love it let’s talk about about your body Brea this is the Brea thing yeah dude you’re crushing it you look at you seem like you have more energy you’re more happy

You’re more healthy are you I’m telling you man and as this guy starts to get more popular let me just say this to you people as this guy starts to get more popular you got guys out there trying to debunk him you know when you get success

Nobody’s telling you to do this go see your doctor good luck to you knock yourself out but this guy is incredible I I called this hippie stuff two years ago I didn’t believe in any of this crap and uh I’m all in on this thing now I

Carve out 2 hours of my day every morning and I religiously do this uh this guy’s changed so many Liv so many people that are in my life he’s changed their lives over the last two years so if you can only pick one of the modalities whatever it is which one are

You picking no doubt Brady Brady asked me that same question it’s hilarious that you ask it’s exactly what he asked and and and it’s it it’s not you can’t just do and if I had to pick one if you say you have to pick one I’d say the

Cold plune cuz the thing I’m thinking about is like the the everyday worker who’s got got to get up go to work and everything but they only have a limited amount of time or a limited amount of funds they can’t afford it all so you think the cold plunge is the one that

You go with at the level that you guys have performed at in your careers you had to be cold plunging back then did did you guys cold plune yes but the difference that has changed in the last four or five years is we would cold plunge for 15 minutes after practice

Immediately now it’s being told that that’s the wrong thing to do because it slows down the recovery process you’re supposed to do it first thing in the morning you’re supposed to do it as a primer but but I love it you were do it’s it’s

Look at you dude hey Dana look at you the big how old are you how old are you how old are you I’m 54 let’s go dude you should be proud man I’m 36 I’m not going to make it to 54 but I was watching you

Do that entire thing and I you know I’m seeing everybody do it you know it started with uh whim Hoff started the whole thing it was kind of on the internet it was a slow starter and I was a cold tub guy immediately afterwards I thought it made

My legs fresher so I thought it mentally tougher I could do it but it does seem like it’s really changing lives this guy is a human that we look this dude has lost like 100 pounds seemingly he does that red light therapy as as an in front of everybody he’ll hold this

Thing up right on his face he does it all also he uh he fights Jay Glazer in a uh drug dealer’s basement big MMA fan he has a question for you go a you yeah one thing I always find fascinating right you got Champion cards on every single

Fight right and so the the biggest question I have is what gives what makes you uh like Max Hall away right like he’s automatically going to get a rematch right Sean Strickland hasn’t been announced yet right like who knows if he’s going to get automatic rematch what makes when a champion loses you

Give the rematch versus not that’s a good question so basically it depends on the fight right two things a guy how dominant has he been uh we did it with Kamar Usman Kamar Usman one of the most dominant Champions we’ve ever had so when he loses the title you have to give

Him a rematch it’s just out of respect you know the guy has taken every fight you’ve ever asked them to take dominated I mean kamaro Usman was going through guys it was the second time of beating them so when he loses you give him an imer it depends and Max Holloway’s same

Type of guy Max Holloway fought everybody defended against everybody and uh you know still continues to be one of the best in the world what’s next what uh what are we looking for it’s obviously Friday night massive for Friday night’s power slap Saturday’s UFC and Sunday is the Super Bowl what do we

Got UFC Saturday I I should have done more research for this yeah we’re we’re we’re at the uh at the Apex Joe Piper I don’t know if you guys remember Joe Piper from the uh from the contender series um broke his arm fighting in the contender series came back had no money

You know the the whole down andout story comes in uh after he heals wins and been on this unbelievable winning streak he’s taking on Jack Hermanson on Saturday night should be an awesome fight it’s the main event uh on Saturday uh so if any of you guys want to come you’re more

Than welcome and if you want to see Power slap you’re absolutely nuts if you don’t come to it is one of the funnest Live Events you will ever go to that’s what everybody says and we try to I’m telling you through Taylor and wills I mean the humans that are signing up for

That I think I’ve met a lot of them throughout my life out there they all think they’re the toughest yeah and then I I imagine there’s some regret you know I imagine I imagine there’s some regret up there well these guys if you look at Power slap right this thing’s like a

Year and three three weeks old the when we started this thing the guy Wolverine who’s looked at the best in the world right now um you know this guy’s paid off his house he paid off his cars I mean these guys were doing professional sport they were doing it for free yeah

Now they’re making real money and uh it’s changed a lot of these guys Lives who has the greatest UFC walkout of all time McGregor yeah it’s got to be without doubt Conor w% with chenade live 100% yeah when’s he fighting uh’s got a date on that can we see it again love to

See it again sometime hey Chandler obviously we know Chandler yeah just I’m excited for the buildup of that how that’s going to go I mean it’s obviously already been happening do you do you kind of try to obviously the promotion it’s Connor so it’s going to go regardless but when you’re putting

Fights together do you think about the promotion how the stories are going to go and how one person talks or handles fights versus how somebody else does well well there’s a storyline to every fight we lay out you know basically what that is um but when you

Think about it I mean this year we got Anaheim we got Super Bowl stuff going on this weekend we got Anaheim which is a great card next week we got uh UFC 300 coming up we got International fight week we have the Big Show at the uh at

The sphere that we’re talking about uh Mexican Independence Day and we’re going back to Abu Dhabi in October we we and and Connor will fight this year so it’s going to it’s it’s going to be a fun year yeah it will it will be a fun year we appreciate you Man