Dana White: “I’m happy to see Strickland support”; doesn’t believe huge WWE/UFC fan crossover 

Dana has given more credit to a contender series winner than he did when Strickland made history

Anytime I hear something about Sean being champ and everything about that performance my heart feels warm.. Strickland earned it, haven’t been this happy for a fighter in a long time ..

I'm shocked that Dana being such a great promoter doesn't mention Strickland's story more. He went from struggling at 170 pounds to having a motorcycle accident that almost cost him his life, to the the UFC MW Champ. The true everyday people's champ!

Dana: This kid is not a kid, he’s 31 years old Dana 20 seconds later: We’ll definitely look at this kid, he’s a kid you’d definitely bring in

Strickland winning the belt was memorable for a lot of us because he was a fighter a lot of us wanted to win but never thought he had a chance which made the win even bigger. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

IZZY DOESN'T NEED A REMATCH HE GOT HIS A$$ HANDED TO HIM GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A CHANCE AT THE BELT. SEAN DID AMAZING 👏

It's scummy af how dana tried to quickly turnaround top contender DDP coming off a win with an injury to take a 7 week prep title fight with adesanya. It's almost like they want to try to bend the odds in the favor to their favorable champ. Glad strickland threw a wrench in the machine. Needs to be called out more, and DDP doesn't deserve to be on the shit list for saying no. I respect his decision, and he deserves the next shot at the title.

Dana was pushing for a rematch. He said "I think you do the rematch" multiple times and made up multiple excuses for Israel losing. He took away almost everything from Sean Strickland's performance that night and it was one of the worst post fight press performances from Dana since his infamous bashing of GSP. He again took away from Strickland's performances tonight. Izzy looked absolutely fine. He got dropped badly, lost round 1, took it well, got back up, had a good round 2, looked just as fast as usual and then got outclassed for 3 rounds. He looked tired because he got teeped in the body all night. He looked off because his stuff wasn't landing and he had no space to set up a jab and leg kick constantly all due to Strickland's great defence and constant pressure. Dana White has done this before to fighters and will do it again to fighters. The important thing is to call him out on it because he took a lot of backsteps tonight on the topic of an immediate rematch.

i can tell you exactly why strickland is getting all the love and support. he is one of us, a real person.

Love him or hate him, in an age of fake-rich social media influencers and A.I. takeover, Sean Strickland has big superstar power potential thanks to his refreshing AUTHENTICITY.

Adesanya didn't look slow, looked like he always did, then got blasted by a clean 1-2 he didn't see. Second round he recovered and won the round. Three, four, five Sean put the pressure on him, and he realized if he traded with Sean in the pocket at boxing range he would be ko'd, so he resigned to losing a decision.

Izzys was humiliated inside and outside of the ring. No Rematch..

Most of us were already huge supporters of Sean before the fight. we all wanted him to win, and that's why it meant so much to us to see it. Sean has legit star power because he's tough as nails gets in guys faces in his fights and doesn't act like he's something special like all the other fighters, he's as humble a champ as we've ever had. Sean deserves all the praise he's getting. i hope the company see's it and gets behind it.

'This guy isn't a kid he's 31 years old' Immediately calls him kid about 30 times in the next 2 minutes Never change Dana.

"Israel was never my pooch" -Dana White. Probably blown away by Stricklands popularity and feels less obligation to do izzy rematch than what he first thought. Sean CAN be extremely marketable

Bro still running with the "Izzy was slow" narrative...he's unwilling to acknowledge that Sean had the capacity to shut down Izzy's offense.

i was definitely surprised that Strickland won but he absolutely deserves it. such an unpredictable sport haha

24:01 it’s because sean strickland is honest and we are tearing for genuine honest people in 2023

The best thing to do for izzy is to take a break. Like GSP said being a champ for a long period is taxing. Dudes accomplishments are proof of his greatness. Congrats to Sean he shut Izzy down and is now the people champ.

🕰TIME STAMPS🕰 0:13 - every fight was incredible tonight 0:39 - James Llontop 1:41 - does he need to change the tattoo on his neck? 1:48 - Jhonata Diniz 2:04 - Kasey Tanner, Patricia Alujas, and A.J. Cunningham all get their win money despite losing 2:17 - did Dana consider giving any of the defeated fighters a contract? 2:51 - why are we seeing more kickboxers like Jhonata Diniz enter into the UFC? 3:18 - Steven Nguyen 3:53 - WWE/UFC merger is discussed 4:58 - Vince pulling a power move against Dana by naming himself Executive Chair for life, Dana the alpha responds 6:51 - Dana the young bull 7:16 - Sean Strickland carrying the brand (weather Dana likes it or not) 8:07 - Rematch? (Dana pretends that he wasn’t pushing for it) 8:51 - is there a poetic side to Sean that we haven’t seen? 10:36 - is there too much talk about Izzy’s performance instead of Sean’s victory? (Dana once again lies about Izzy looking slow) 11:28 - Conor calls out Volk and may want to fight at 185 🙄 12:06 - 🤦‍♂️ 13:18 - third times the charm for Steven Nguyen 13:57 - 👑 Laura Sanko 15:36 - a possible staple on the PPV commentary team? 16:02 - Colby 🆚 Leon? 16:13 - the cyber attack on MGM (Dana couldn’t care less) 16:50 - Alexa Grasso and Mexico MMA 17:52 - thoughts on Grasso 🆚 Valentina? 18:44 - women’s flyweight division 19:25 - Power Slap (Dana paid this guy to ask this question 🙄) 20:47 - TKO, Stephanie McMahon interested in dabbling into boxing, is Dana interested? (he is, and he won’t elaborate) 21:21 - More on this weeks main event 22:03 - Sean broke his belt 22:22 - Kasey Tanner & A.J. Cunningham 23:06 - Sean Strickland’s viral RU-vid speech after winning the belt (Dana kind of down plays it) 24:27 - little baby Izzy didn’t want to talk to the media or Dana after his 49-46 defeat (probably wanted to see his poor dog) 24:49 - Cain Velasquez (Dana pretends to not hear the question) 25:13 - will UFC Noche become an annual event? 26:07 - why not go into kickboxing instead of boxing? (Dana of course down plays it because watching out of shape Costco workers on power slap is much better than anything on Glory) 27:14 - Dana questions Kickboxing’s success in the Netherlands and pretends it doesn’t have a market in the U.S, never mind that it packs arenas full of fans and celebrities. More pointless money on off duty CVS security guards 😀

The look on Dana’s face when he’s talking about the moment Strickland won, and then by the time he got to the press conference he was back to being his usual self made me chuckle

I don't think Conor wants to fight again, but wants to keep putting his name out there to stay in the conversations.

Some people are saying the fat guy that always has the first question is losing weight is this true?? If so congrats to him and props to Colby for motivating him

Izzy slowed down because of Sean though. He got dropped and wailed on in the 1st round, he was most likely concussed.

Dana just doesnt want to give credit to Sean, he canceled Izzy period ! 😂

Sean winning almost made me cry dude. It was so beautiful

Strickland proved how good he is and I think that is the main story here, not that Izzy is declining or anything, I think Sean has leveled up and might just be the best striker in UFC at least defensively

Dana changing his tune on the rematch now ,cause Izz himself has not made any statement about "wanting" it asap - dont think hel'll be ready for a longtime...Lets see Sean fight another one of the top MWs and give him a chance to prove jst how good a defending champ he can be? Long live King Strickland!

Giving Izzy an instant Rematch would be a damn shame for Strickland and for the other fighters in the division. Izzy would be so shameful if he is really believing he deserves instant rematch. If he had real honor he would earn that rematch back. They are dumb. UFC would lose way more money in the long run by going with rematch then by letting this golden opportunity that Strickland gave the division to flourish and become fresh again.

Izzy got dominated for 25 minutes. Aljo got “dominated” for maybe 6 minutes. Aljo deserves a rematch over Izzy. But Honestly fuck a rematch for both of them. Let other contenders get a chance.

I also kinda disagree with Dana on the WWE/UFC crossover. When Colby Covington came out to Kurt Angles theme song the fact that everyone in the crowd knew to say "you suck" is proof of the cross over right there.

I was a WWE fan as a kid and as I got older I became a UFC fan. Plus after the Undertaker lost I was done with the WWE like he didnt deserve to go out that way

Dana should give so much more credit to Sean. He's the guy Dana would love if it was anyone other than Strickland. Always shows up when there's a need. Dana loves those usually.

As usual Dana’s press conference is entertaining. Every single time he does one of these it’s entertaining.

Dana legit says O’Malley is a star and Strickland quadruples him in views and he downplays him. Bro the bias is so apparent

No, Dana, Strickland beat a prime Izzy.

Agreed. There will be some crossover of fanbases but unfortunately the two sports are so completely opposite. One is strictly entertainment and the other one is brutal destruction. If you look at the WWE fanbase, it's closer to a comic con fanbase then a fighting fanbase. Really excited to see what comes out of it but I do think that's a crazy statement to think you're going to have that big of a crossover in fandom between the two companies.

Go Sean awesome result. Sean Strickland the new middleweight CHAMP. You're welcome in New Zealand bro.

Dana doesn't want to admit that Sean Strickland is a star, but he's gonna appreciate Sean in time.

If Izzy gets a rematch, then so should Aljo against O’Malley

Man he really isn't giving Sean his credit. What the hell.

So happy for Sean Strickland winning the belt, iconic moment 😊

Izzy wasn't slow or anything. Sean made him look weak

My favourate part of izzy Vs sean wasn't the round 1 knockdown. It was the last 30 seconds round 5. My heart was pounding. I was just expecting Izzy to catch him and win.. still... But when Sean just postured at izzy, throwing his own hands down, calling izzy a Ch1na man and a pu*sy was probably the best moment i have ever witnessed in MMA. Not to mention, the moment the 5th bell rang. You know, izzy always goes on about feelings, or "energy". Even through the screen, you could tell izzy was like a lost little school boy who just go bullied for the first time. He was truly defeated.. meanwhile Sean just had this rush and he ended up looking away from izzy, knowing he beat him, and sean rose his hands and just ran... i also loved how sean just couldn't sit still, even in his own corner, even when the cut man was trying to help him. He was pacing. Eye on the prize.. Even when the result were read, and his speech, you could see it really did mean thr world to him, even tho he says it's not. Only thing that could of made it better is if sean cried, coz you know he had a more difficult job holding back tears then beating izzy at his own game. lol

54 is young bro. And you look better now then when you were 30. Ufc is in good hands. Love this shit.

Izzy needs to tie some wins together before we talk about any rematches

Media guy: “is the rematch with sissy still on the table or do you move on with the division?” Dana white: “yes that’s the fight to make” Also Dana: “shout out to da puppie”

Put some respect on Stricklands name

I’m an Attitude Era fan and a huge UFC fan.

You can tell Uncle Dana is NOT HAPPY AT ALL the Sean is the New Champ! Dana is trying to hide it and pretend he is happy for Sean! Behind Close doors I bet you 100% he is pissed at himself for letting Izzy convince him that he was going to beat Sean! The top brass of the UFC NEVER WANTED IZZY vs SEAN to happen! It was Izzy who gave Sean the chance because he thought this was going to be an easy fight for him! The rest is history! BTW we have to stick with Sean and continue to support him because Uncle Dana wants Sean out of the Championship status ASAP! For some reason the UFC has no plans for Sean Strickland as a Champ in their horizon! I hope eventually they can work it out!!!

MacLife always gets my view 💪🏽💯

i like how dana always refers to everyone as "kid" lollolol

25:52 . Dana was not ready for any Mexican questions 😂😂😂

Time stamps 1:00 Dana on smoking CHODE 4:00 Dana on smoking Conor’s CHODE 6:00 Dana on smoking O’Malley a CHODE 10:00 Dana on power slapping his wife 15:00 Dana on Conor being in his woifes dms 20:00 Dana’s off to blow Conor

Why can’t Dana just book the MSG card already

Izzy had 25 minutes to save himself. 🤷‍♂️ I think it speaks to Sean's time spent sparring hard and smart; the fact that Izzy didn't adjust. He was overwhelmed. The rematch is gonna be a barn burner guys. Lets gooooo!!!!!!

Strickland beat him at his own game in a 5 rd fight, unanimous decision. Izzy is 2-1 in his last free. Aljo gets KO’d in first round which is when u say u make rematches, he was goat status and retained his belt FOR SOOO LONG

Never wanna fully give sean credit, Izzy was dancing on his way out Ready to go and got cracked by a man

The defeat in Dana’s voice when dude asked him about seeing Sean breaking the belt… “I have not..” 🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️

Sean was an underdog and Izzy was under a dog 🥁

I am obsessed with both MMA and WWE... i love the science behind fighting and i love story telling, charisma and enthusiasm from the crowd. Plus there are more reasons why i love either of them. My mind breaks everything down so im perfect for both, grew up on both so this deal feels perfect for me hopefully at some point in my life

Lmao the question about Sean breaking the belt at about 22:00 was hilarious.

I’m just speculating but I think Izzy will actually take some time off and try to regroup. Strickland will beat DDP next and then we will go from there.

Dana is afraid to compliment Sean. Normally he likes when people speak their minds, but not with Sean. The less respect Sean gets , the more people will tune in to listen to him. Sean deserved every single bit of where he is now.

Love the time index. Great job channel.

Dana had Brock, CM Punk, Cain, Rousey. Brock brought so many WWE fans into the UFC. Cain and Rousey brought WWE fans from the UFC. Dana tries to put everything under the rug. He did all of that with that intention.

I’m both a WWE and UFC fan….and I can say they are 2 entirely different things with 2 entirely different fanbases and that’s how it’s going to stay

Izzy deserves rematch and I’d still be rooting for Strickland

I love how Dana White doesn’t care about money as much as he wants the sport to grow. He’s more of an advocate to this sport than a lot realize.

May Sean Strickland’s reign be long and successful. Let us all bask in how much Dana is gonna hate it.

Dana is the oldest he’s ever been but the youngest he’ll ever be 😤 6:33

he didn't look slow, he looked nullified

Outclassed the guy that KO'd the guy that KO'd him

Dana can’t even fake happiness !

All I care about is khamzat winning at the next ppv then finally getting his title shot. I genuinely see him holding it by mid next year

Dana doesn't look old at all, I mean his an older dude but not like old looking or anything. I do hope he continues to run the UFC forever, I grew up watching this guy, he is awesome.

The same people critiquing Dana for how he treated Strickland, were the same people cheering Dana's treatment of Ngannou. The fans are so inconsistent lol.

Jon jones vs Roman reign for the undisputed heavyweight champion

Combining a scripted wrestling show with an mma promotion is opening a huge can of worms for allegations into match-fixing.

I have an amazing story. One day I was driving home and I felt the presence of the Lord, come down to me from above. It was as real as anything and I felt so comfortable with Him. I knew if I asked Him to play a song on the radio, He would. So I said "Ok Lord, play Come as you are..." I didn't know what station it was on or anything, but I turned the radio on and the song started playing right on the spot, perfectly... I started getting flooded with chills inside, trembling, and crying tears of joy. When I got home, He stayed with me for 10 minutes till I got out of the car. I've been getting amazing prayers answered for around 6 years since, because that experience made me stop doubting when I pray, and I follow Biblical instructions, best I can.

Guys Dana’s right, Adesanya did look slow out there. Specifically after Strickland dropped him and tried to take his head off with like 20+ shots. That would slow pretty much anybody down.

Nice work. I wish I was Dana’s kid

23:50 the JRE interview with Strickland was a large eye opener for most of the world about Strickland. Turns out he is an intelligent guy AND a great fighter.

now there's are chance with Strickland as champ to make the 185 division interesting again. if Izzy never fights again, I don't care a bit.

Izzy has been the most active champ in UFC history. Say what you want about Izzy as a person. But you can’t deny he’s undoubtedly been a fantastic champion. If you don’t agree you’re not an MMA fan. Period. You’re likely letting his polarising persona cloud your judgement on how great of a “fighter” he is. Super active, takes on the best, wants to verse the best and often. Only other champ you can say that about is volkanovski. Every other champion are just Twitter warriors. He deserves the rematch due to his body of work alone. And congrats to Sean. Phenomenal performance.

Don’t let this distract you from the fact mma guru focuses on other men more than his double chin

Sean called out the "Chinaman" an won the world title. Adesanaya threw loads of types of styles but was just out classed by Sean's march down defensive style.

Jesse on Fire saying Dana was so pissed that Adesanya lost, he doesn’t look too pissed off to me

We did it! Sean Strickland is the very definition of alpha American badass. He fights, carries a gun, rides a motorcycle, and is totally against all the cancel culture PC BS. I can relate because I'm also a straight AF proud white alpha. People like us are such a rare breed nowadays. In a world full of soyboy vegans, it's refreshing to know that certified alpha lions such as myself and Sean still roam the earth as badass dudes. To us and those like us. Damn few.

Y’all are dumb for saying izzy doesn’t deserve rematch. What about his body of work the past 4-5 years makes you think he doesn’t deserve it? He lapped everybody in the division

It was Strickland checking kicks well and then almost finishing izzy in the first, that set all the rest....it could have been stopped in the first...

Izzy looked slow because Sean shut down his gameplan. It wasn’t a off night Sean was just better .

Izzy in his last 7 fights: 4-3 Aljo in his last 10 fights: 9-1 Izzy got dominated for 5 rounds, Aljo got caught with a shot. But Izzy is the one who deserves an immediate rematch?

People are finally getting behind strickland even tho he's a bit crazy but everyone figuring out its just a gimmick he's a good human being god bless him for getting a championship

Ah boi Dana was calling Izzy up yelling at him for losing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sean is not getting enough credit for his mental game. Izzy looked defeated all week.

The last question about kickboxing not being relevant , let’s see how Rodtang vs Superleks numbers actually do in less then 10 days (if it finally happens) . Glad ONE is paving the way for Muay Thai & kickboxing athletes

Im from Netherlands..Dana White is right..global kickboxing is not so big..nice to watch tho🙏

The very idea of WWE/UFC crossover bores me to tears. If it takes place in WWE then what even happens? UFC fighter comes out to a huge reaction and then has a few matches and maybe they are okay for wrestling fans (but I imagine UFC fighters won't just magically be good at that). Or they come to the UFC and get hurt. For what reason?

Why do journalist continue to waste their opportunity to ask a question asking about Conor like godamn u already know the answer 😂😂😂