Why Dana White Does Not Like MMA Film WARRIOR 

Warrior was absolutely magnificent. Truly emotional. I'm assuming Dana hates the movie cause it shows a lot of the trauma and pain that a lot of these guys have in their background. That's not something you want front and center if it's your business to market. It's not really a movie that sells MMA. It's about the relationships and pain and forgiveness around it.

Warrior is a awesome movie, Dana white hates it because the fighters actually got paid and it showed the backstory, the pain, the trauma, and the sacrifices fighters often make, not exactly good when you want to draw in a audience that wants only a show and knockout

Dana hates it cuz the guy at the end actually made a good pay day 🤣

WARRIOR is so fuckin' great! 🙂

Warrior had me crying like a baby , fantastic movie , nick nolte and tom hardy absolutely kill it with their performances

*Warrior is EPIC Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton were awesome but Nick Nolte was INCREDIBLE* Very well done film all around. Inspiring , thought provoking, entertaining and endearing, everything you could hope for in cinema.

Absolutely brilliant film, and Kingdom was a great show

Went to see this with my mum as she is a big Tom Hardy fan, cinema packed with fight fans and macho dudes. During the last fight i scanned around the room and I've never seen so many guys fighting back the tears, it was so emotional, when the film ended the place cleared out like there was a fire, hoodies on faces hidden. I don't think even half the audience was prepared for just how drawn into the characters lives the film would take them. Warrior is an amazing movie.

If you want to see your man cry, put this movie on, especially if he has a brother. The end of this movie had me weeping like a baby. Like just ugly crying.

Warrior made me feel more than some Rocky movies have. RIP. Rumble Johnson

Love warrior, film was fantastic As someone who used to compete in ju jitsu with my brother (not MMA) it was awesome. Seen it over a 100 times man, it reminds me of my relationship with my brother also and makes me cry every time.

This comments section is so wholesome. I was an amateur MMA fighter when this came out, and I had a buddy of mine who served in the Marine Corps call me up and say, "Bro, you have GOT to see this movie. I will go back to the theaters and watch it with you, TODAY." I was so blindsided by how it impacted me on an emotional level. I said the same thing to my oldest brother(who was living on the other side of the country), that we HAD to watch this with one another. In that last scene, our faces, as two fully grown martial artists, were a mask of tears. After the screen was dark, we literally got up, hugged, and just held each other bawling. My brother and I have been best friends for over a decade at this point, and this is still one of my fondest memories of the two of us. Two grown, strong men, brothers, in full masculine vulnerability. I love you, Lucas.

The end of the movie always makes me cry. So good.

Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy - that's a very dynamic acting duo. I've always liked Grillo, he's got a great presence on film, and he handles his physical work so well.

I Second That,Absolutely Brilliant Film... It Is On My Top 3 All-Time... Frank Grillo's Part In "Warrior" Is What Got Me Watching "Kingdom",Great Show...

Changed my life, got me into MMA and the gym, saved my life

Dana hates it because he couldn’t get a profit from it

Dana probably doesn't like the film because he didn't get a producer credit where if the film is successful he could earn money on the backend of the film's profit He doesn't like anyone making money in the fight business if his name ain't attached to it 😂 he despised Ngannou for having a mind of his own

Dana hated the movie because they payed the actors too much lmao

This film is a masterpiece for me. First of all this is a family story. MMA is just a scenery. Joel, Tom and Nick Nolty did a wonderful job. It is an Oscar level. I have no idea why these three weren't nominated. I rewatch the film once a year at least. And the sound ... About Today by The National became one of my favourite song.

One of my fav movies. Frank is such an underrated actor.

Warrior was mis-marketed as an MMA / fight film. It's fantastic, nowhere near enough people saw it on a big screen at release but it was a film about living with trauma and how that translated for those characters onto a an octagon canvas, it wasn't a fight film or a glorifying the sport - there was no effort to highlight sportsmanship or pre-fight stuff.

warrior is literally one of the best combat sport movie of all time... the writing acting everything was on point...

“MMA wasn’t mainstream yet” Sir, this was well past the point of it being mainstream.

Tom Hardy was definitely not an unknown at that point of his career but I liked the movie and loved Kingdom

Watched it the year it came out, one of my favorite movies of all-time

Warrior is an AMAZINGLY written film!

Warrior was amazing not just for the fighting but more so for me as an emotional drama. I cried at the end and I cried when the father relapsed in the hotel. Brilliant film. Brilliant acting all round.

Dana White has no soul.

Warrior is NOT one of your favorite films. Be honest. It has a fight where someone gets powerbombed. So dumb! 🤦‍♂

Movie is soooo underrated; as much as I love the fight scenes my fav is the Hardy/Nolte scene at the hotel - powerful stuff and tearjerker

Beautiful movie. 1 of my favorite movies. Top 3. Tom Hardy and Joel's performances were so touching and just connects with the audience.

Warrior is one of the most amazing movies I’ve ever seen. It was so dark, gritty, and emotional. I think it really shows the pain that a lot of fighters go through and how that pain pushes them in their careers. To top it all off, the acting was so good I forgot I was watching a movie.

Why'd you cut it off as he was talking?

Warrior IS great. Great acting, great screenplay, amazing ride overall. It absolutely doesn't get the recognition it deserves

My only gripe with warrior as a long time mma fan is that powerbomb by Kurt angle. Have there been powerbombs in mma, yes but always as an escape to a submission not an actual pro-wrestling, head between the legs, wait for your opponent to jump and you lift him type of powerbomb.

'unknown tom hardy'? By that point he'd been in Bronson, black hawk down, layer cake, star trek nemesis, inception, tinker tailor What's grillo chatting

But both actors were very well known and it was at the peak of MMA’s (UFC’s) popularity. 😂

Cannot find it anywhere and it's one of my favorite movies of all time

"Inside of You" is a CRAZY channel name bro

I still think Kingdom should continue. Someone needs to pick that up again

Warrior was such a great movie. A hidden gem.

I did not cry at the end of Warrior. It was the pollen in the air having me sniffing and watering up.

I had a strained troubled relationship with my brother for years. We worked on fixing it and forgiving each other. I convinced him to watch it with me one day and we cried at the end and hugged it out.

I know quite a few MMA guys who really dislike Warrior bc they feel its an unrealistic depiction of training and fighting.

one of the best fight movie ever.up their with raging bull,cinderella man etc.tom hardy,joel edgerton and their dad(cant remember the name) all three of them just nailed it.i cried watching it.absolute masterpiece

RIP Anthony "Rumble" Johnson. Aka Midnight Lee in Warrior.

KINGDOM is one of my most fav shows of all time -- such a fantastic slice of life realism approach to the mma world in socal, fuckin fantastic soundtrack, amazing actors, and just absolutely incredibly dark humor and heart-wrenching drama all at the same. a true gem in american scripted cable drama. everyone involved those 40 eps did a wonderful job

Tom Hardy had already done Inception by then. He was beginning to be recognised. I don't know if I'd call him mainstream at that point, but he'd been in a lot of films prior to this, too.

Warrior to me is one of the best ever made you need to look past the mma which is also great in the film but the film is about a lost family coming together I cry at the end everytime

As someone who trains MMA I see where Dana is coming from. An MMA gym is NOTHING like what they show in the movies. The personalities are NOTHING like they show in the movies. In order to get to a high level of MMA you need to train consistently since you were a child or teenager. There are levels to this. This guy doesn't train and in a few weeks he's at the top. They portray it as more barbaric instead of a respected sport. It will definitely deter people from joining the sport because they see it as a run down, less professional, douchery thing to do. However, I liked it. I watched it a few times. Very good movie. If the movie portrayed mma accurately it wouldn't be entertaining. If the fight scenes were accurate, they would be boring. People want to see batman style of fighting. Not actual fighters circling around all fight and guard passing. Those are a small percentage of people they're trying to appeal to a larger demographic. I watched it when it first came to DVD in 2012 and a few times in between including a few months back. The last time I watched it i watched it with people. It's just a movie but i did feel the need to disclose that's nothing like the mma community. That's nothing like an mma gym.

Warrior is my all time favorite movie!

Dana didn't like Warrior because it isn't about fighting. it is about the father son relationships. Fighting was just the vehicle to deliver the message. I LOVED Warrior.

GREAT movie! Not sure I'd exactly call Edgerton or Hardy "Unknown"...

Warrior made me cry.

And what would be a good representation of the ufc? people train hard for many years and fight in unknown contests for small pay with a massive risk of injury that can have you out of work for most of the year with no pay and the same applies to the ufc but with a 50k win purse vs a 10k loss purse if your on the main card but again, if you get injured, you dont get paid?? Then you have to pay your fight camp out of your own purse, so the trainer and support staff, corner men, sparring partners etc. fu*k that, sling coke on the corner and start rapping, it probably pays the bills with less risk.

Unknown tom Hardy? Bro played bronson a year before this projecti fucks with you Frank but your on eh glue if you think Hardy was some unknown actor before that 😂😂

I watch Warrior when I wasn't an MMA fan. And it was my absolute favorite movie release of that year. Now that I'm an MMA fan, i'm afraid my view on the film will change. So I refuse to rewatch it.

As a marine i couldn’t finsh the movie. Tom hardys character was a marine war deserter and he gets glorified for it. They even showed marines in uniform singing the marine corps hymm as part of his entrance as if they would approve of someone going awol in the middle of a damn war leaving his brothers behind. F this movie.

Warrior isnt about the fighting. Its about the relationship between father, son and brother. It deals with so many issues e.g. domestic violence, poverty, family, parenthood. Fighting is just the vessel to which moves the plot forward. Its a beautiful film.

I mean they were hardly unknowns. Joel had been in Star Wars franchise and Tom was in inception. Maybe not superstars but hardly newcomers.

Warrior was pretty good, but the ending blew dick. Tommy clearly should have won.

Dana does not like Warrior but does like physically assaulting his wife

Dana hates it 'cause the film focuses on empathizing with the fighters and their struggles. Not really his thing

Warrior is an amazing movie. But to people in the fight business it's cringy. It's like boxers watching Rocky or lawyers watching Law and order.

I was lucky enough to catch a test screening of it in Vegas with a bunch of local MMA fighters that the PR/marketing team invited. Awesome reaction to it overall, especially for the early beatdown in the gym.

This is one of the few movies that truly made me cry. The only other film that I can think of that also made me cry is Dancer in the Dark.

Unknown?! What is he on about. Both were known. Especially Hardy.

Such an awesome movie. His performance is very good on it.

Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy weren't unknown actors in 2011.

Dana didn’t like it because the guy who won is a family man and a pillar of his community

Warrior is not about UFC or MMA, its about a broken family, the hate that we carry from an abusive childhood and how to forgive and find peace and love.

I wouldn't say either was unknown. Tom Hardy and Joel both established

Dana White hates it because it shows how small and easy it was to enter an event back in the day.

I can understand why Dana doesn't like Warrior and loves Kingdom. Warrior was "movie mma," and compared to Kingdom, Warrior doesn't realistically portray mma fighters and their lifestyles and how things work in the mma business. I enjoy Warrior very much for the story and acting, but after being friends with some mma fighters for years now and seeing that world in real life, I've never seen an mma movie or show that comes close to an honest depiction of mma besides Kingdom. It's a fantastic show with incredible performances, writing, and fighting choreography. It is the closest thing to a true to life mma world. Watch it if you've never seen it!

Nick Nolte should have won an oscar for his role

Warrior sucked, that's why Dana didn't like it.

can't believe so much crap in so little time coming out of Frank's mouth. neither Joel nor Tom were "unknown", yeah they were about to get more popular but both had already been featured in prominent movies, and MMA _was_ already mainstream. it's like he's forgetting this movie came out 2011 instead of 2001.

Kingdom was dope. One of the best shows to come out post Sopranos.

So under rated.

Kingdom was great and Mr. Grillo was great in it.

The main criticism is that it's not realistic to fight 3-4 times against top level contenders in the span of a week. For example, Bellator holds Grandprix style tournaments, with eight fighters, and it takes the better part of a year until the last fight happens, because pro fighters average three fights per year, 4-5 if they're really busy. There are logistical considerations like fight camps and downtime to heal from injuries. Obviously, you can't squeeze all that into a two hour movie without turning the entire thing into an epic montage from beginning to end, so they left it out. I like it regardless.

I heard people shitting on this movie and went back and rewatched it to see if maybe I just had one slipped past me. Nope. Warriors of fucking good movie. I think Tom Hardy's the most underrated actor in Hollywood too. Better than Leo in the revenant. Unrecognizable and unbelievable. He should have gotten that Oscar

Warrior will make any man shed a tear.

Kingdom is my favorite show of all time!

Warrior is good, but Kingdom is goddamn amazing.

Warrior was a Awesome MMA Movie 🎥

Unknown Tom Hardy😂😂😂 You trippin

Warrior makes me cry every time, guaranteed. "JUST TAP TOMMY"

I think the main complaint would be that the way the tournament is structured is completely unfair…. Fighting multiple fights back to back. And over the course of a weekend is crazy. It completely avoids how many fighters would be too injured to fight so soon after just 1 fight!!! And they’re all the same weight class??? No large scale MMA tournament would be like that in real life. For good reason.

Warrior came out in 2011, and MMA was mos def main stream and Tom Hardy was just recently in Inception and was certainly not 'unknown'...

Warrior and Kingdom are both amazing

One more reason not to like Dana White

Dana has a point. Most pro fighters I’ve met aren’t at all like they are in Warrior. But then again it’s a movie. Depicting the fighters as non dramatic regular pro athletes would make a pretty boring movie.

??? - MMA was already main stream in 2011.

Best fight movie since Rocky II

Tom Hardy was far from “unknown” when ‘Warrior’ released.

I watched this because the characters were loosely based on mma people. It was a good movie too

As a film, Warrior is great. In terms of MMA realism, could definitely be better.

"Warrior" is trash, and MMA was popular in 2011. That movie looked like something made by someone who saw one UFC event and didn't know how to write an interesting story. The fight scene in "They Live" was better.