Dana so there was a guy named Whitey Bolger, he said to me, you owe us money. I literally hung up the phone and got a one way ticket to vegas. Harvey and it was there dana built his empire by partnering with two High School Friends to buy a mixed Martial Arts League on the brink of bankruptcy which they turned into a multibillion dollar company. indistinct shouting and cheering harvey dana has made his fair share of friends and enemies along the way, but hes not about to switch up the game plan that got him here. He trusts his gut. Anybody who follows what they love, i believe that youre gonna be successful at it. Harvey dana white, one of the most successful and confident sports moguls in america, whos never been one to shy away from a good fight. Dana. Whats up my friend . Its so good seeing you. Good to see you too. Okay, i have never been to this facility. It is shocking. It is one of the nicest facilities. When did you build it . Dana it turned out well, we moved in last year. Little over a year ago. Harvey thats what 4 billion gets you, doesnt it . Its amazing. Dana yeah. So, were gonna learn about your life through objects youve chosen to keep. All right. I am awe struck by that saber tooth. Explain it to me. Yeah, so, about 2008, 2009, when the economy crashed, i saw that that thing was available from a museum down in dallas. You know, museums were running out of money and they started auctioning off some real stuff, and i had to have it. Harvey theyre aggressive animals. Dana they are aggressive animals. Harvey youre pretty aggressive too. I can be aggressive. And you were pretty aggressive growing up. Yeah, you know, ive always been an aggressive person. I think, you know, when youre younger the aggression is kinda negative, but as you get older and you know, grow up a little the aggression is a positive thing. So you had kind of a turbulent early part of your life. Your parents divorced. Yeah. Your dad was a firefighter, but there were problems. Yeah, my dad was a big drinker, partier, you know. My dad was one of those guys that, uh. You know, partying meant more to him than hanging out with his kids. So he kind of ignored you. Oh, yeah, yeah. There were days that my sister and i would he was supposed to pick us up and take us to the movies or hang out with us, whatever, and he would never show up and wed just be sitting out on the bench waiting for him, you know . Or hed come over and show up so drunk that we wouldnt want to go with him. Was he abusive when he lived with you . Yeah, yeah. He was, uh, you know, typical alcoholic that drinks too much, yeah. He wasnt fun to be around. And there was really no relationship after you grew up . Yeah, i dont have a relationship with my dad. Um, you were. I dont want to say a bad kid, but you had your share of trouble. Yeah, i did. I was a bad kid. Id get into lots of trouble, got caught at pretty much everything i did and i wasnt a big school guy i didnt like school. Harvey you hated school. I hated school, i hated everything about school. I hated the structure of it, i hated studying, i hated the teachers, i hated everything about it. So, you went to catholic school, your mom sent you to catholic school. Dana i did. Harvey and you got expelled. Dana i did, i did. I got kicked out twice. Harvey hows that . I got kicked out for fighting. I got in fights, uh. Its funny because vegas back then, there were a lot of fights here from a young age. Kids would fight after school, schools would fight other schools, um, and every weekend we went out there were fights in the park. Um, yeah, there were a lot of fights in vegas. What were your dreams as a kid . So youre having trouble in school, you dont have the greatest relationship with your parents, so what are the dreams you have for yourself . Um. I mean, i always knew, there were certain things when youre a kid that you know ive always wanted a beach house, i always wanted a ferrari, and i always wanted to be in the fight business. And you knew that period you knew that from a young age. From a young age, i knew it. Why . I dont know, ive always been fascinated by fighting, you know, from boxing to bruce lee movies, chuck norris, any type of martial arts, but at one point, boxing completely consumed my life, it was everything to me. You were arrested for fighting at times. Yeah, i got arrested in vegas for fighting, and up in maine, and massachusetts. Oh, and massachusetts. laughter yeah, i forgot about. Massachusetts any other states . Yeah. Any other states . No, thats it, thats it. harvey laughs was it was the dream that you were going to be a fighter . Um. Or that you were going to be a business man of the fight business . No, no, it wasnt a business man and it wasnt a fighter, its that i was gonna be in the business. That i was gonna be in the fight business. One way or another. It just its what my passion was. Where are we . Dana so this is the performance institute. They have everything here. So they have cardio, theres a cold plunge in here, theres an underwater treadmill. This right here is a chamber, you go in there and work out in altitude, and that thing goes as high as, i believe, 12,000 feet. Harvey and this is where fighters train. Dana this is where fighters come in here, they train for free, um, all their supplements are free, theres a restaurant over here, they eat for free, um, thats physical therapist back there. All the physical therapy is free. Everything is free if youre under contract with us. Um, tell me what that is. So, this is a picture of me at the Boston Harbor hotel. Thats prince phillip, he was visiting the hotel. Im this guy. Harvey how can that be you . Dana come on, im the young looking guy. laughs so, you barely graduated high school. Right. What was the game plan . Well, when you barely graduate high school you gotta get out there and get a job. Yeah. And i started as a bouncer in boston. I worked at a irish bar called the black rose. Harvey were you good at it . Uh, downtown i was too good at it, i got fired for it. laughs why . I got fired for fighting, again. chuckles oh, god. Geez. And from there i got me a job at ej paving. You were pouring asphalt. The hardest job ive ever had in my life. From there i went to the Boston Harbor hotel and i was a bellman there. So, youre doing fine as a bellman, and then you have an epiphany. Every morning when i woke up, and drove to work, i hated it. I hated going to that job, i hated everything about it, and one day im just they would make us post up and stand up against the marble like this, and im standing there going, what am i doing here . Why am i doing this . I literally walked off, was walking out the front door and i ran into a buddy of mine and he said, whats going on . What are you doing . I said, i quit. I swear to god, i said, im gonna get into the fight business. He goes, thats the dumbest thing i ever heard in my life. laughs dana and, uh. You ever talk to that guy . Oh, we talk all the time. Hes like, thank god you didnt take my advice. Right. So you became an amateur fighter. Yes. What was your record . Not good. laughs i would never take it back, im so happy i did it, you know, it was part of the evolution of this because its hard to relate to these guys and what they do if youve never been there and done it. Right. And ive done everything in the fight business except. Um, ive never judged a fight. Your first success really came as a boxercize instructor. We werent boxercize instructors, we taught boxing classes, thats what we did, for harvey for housewives, and business men. Exactly. Harvey and it caught on, and it did well. Yes, did really well. Harvey so what happened . What happened was, in boston, at that time there was a guy named Whitey Bolger who ran the town. Harvey he was a mob boss. Dana yeah, and he had guys under him, and one of the guys was kevin weeks and they showed up at one of my classes one day, him and another guy. They walk right into my class, like, we need to talk to you. You owe us money. And i was like no, no, before he said that he said to me, you know who i am . You knew it was the mob. Yeah. They said, you got till tomorrow to pay 2,500. And i said, i dont have 2,500. They said, you better get it. You better find it. And, uh, i literally hung up the phone, picked it back up and called delta and got a one way ticket to vegas. I left everything, and then maybe, six to eight months later, they started digging up all the bodies at the beach and whitey fled and all that stuff started going down. So you moved to vegas and you become a big hit with aerobics. Boxing fitness it was called. So, i taught classes at the clubs, they were huge, packed. Harvey like 150 people. Dana yeah, packed, yeah. Then i had a gym where i took people in and trained them private lessons. They took private lessons, and i used to have these boxing clinics that i would do every five weeks. So, um, a turning point in your life as i understand it came in the mid 90s when you went to a wedding and you ran into an Old High School friend. I show up at the wedding and Lorenzo Fertitta approaches me. And hes like, hey, whats up . How you been . And we start talking. And hes like, i heard youre boxing. And i said, yeah. And he says, well, i just got into the nevada state athletic commission. He says, lets get together, id like to train. I said, awesome. So that monday, him and his brother frank show up and, uh, they started training with me and weve literally been together ever since. My understanding is, it went from boxing to mma because of a limp bizkit concert. Yeah, so frank and i were at the hard rock. Limp bizkit was playing that night, and i saw this guy jon lewis. And jon lewis was the first guy to have a brazilian jiujitsu school in town here and he was a ufc fighter. Harvey right. So frank says, yeah, thats that ufc guy. He goes, ive always wanted to learn ground fighting. And i was like, me too. So, we set up an appointment, told lorenzo, lorenzo came too on monday, the rest is history. We started training, we fell in love with it, we met bj penn, we met Chuck Liddell, tito ortiz, you know, all these guys, that were stars in the ufc at the time, and we were blown away by how smart they are, um, what great athletes they are, what good people they are. So, you have a successful boxing aerobics class, living in vegas, and youre making money. Right. Were you satisfied . You know, i stammers yeah, i loved what i was doing, but it was always about whats next, whats next, whats next . Even today. Whats next . 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Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. Harvey this is the fruits of your labor here. This is the octagon. You know whats crazy, its true because when we bought the ufc what we really paid for as on old wooden octagon. That was it. The octagon was wood . Yeah, it was an old nasty wood octagon. And when people would get slammed on it, there was no give because the thing would actually sit on concrete inside the arenas. Let me take you back to 2000s. Um, the ufc was failing. Lorenzo fertitta and i have known each other since high school and when we reconnected in, like, 95 wed always said, lets do something together in the fight business, lets do something together. And i said, the ufcs in trouble i just found out that these guys are going out of business and i think we can buy it and i think we should. But why did you think something that was failing could succeed . We were blown away by the fighters, how intelligent they were, how athletic they were. And we said, imagine if you market it this way and i just believed, could we be that off . Could we be that wrong . I always felt like, not only could this thing be big, it could be big all over the world. And when you get into the culture of mixed martial arts and jiujitsu, and fighting, its very addictive, and it almost becomes a lifestyle for a lot of people, and, uh, i felt it, i knew it, and i just had something in my gut that said this things gonna work. Harvey and you had to convince the fertitta brothers and you bought it for 2 million bucks. Dana exactly. What else does the ufc have to look forward to . Basically, what we want to do is we want to make this the super bowl of mixed martial arts. We want to make it more fan friendly, we want to get the crowd involved in it, and we want to bring back the best fighters in the world. The ufc was being marketed as a super violent sport, that you could watch somebody possibly get killed, um, they were gouging people, they were what do you call it . Fish hooking people with their mouths and ripping their mouths open. Charles gibson each match will run until there is a designated winner by means of knockout, surrender, doctors intervention, or death. Was that why it was failing . Um, yeah, that was part of it. And the guys who were running it at that time were very combative. We came in and said, this many people wanna watch a freak show. This many people wanna watch a real sport. So we ran toward regulation, turning it into a real sport, and the reality was, these fighters arent killers, these guys are great guys. Theyre incredible athletes, um, most of them have families. Most of em graduated from college. So the way it was being marketed, it might have worked for the first couple of em, but that wasnt a good long term plan. The perception at some point was that a bunch of neanderthals get in an octagon. indistinct shouting and cheering and the reality is that you hired a lot of guys who are accomplished. I think you have a doctor fighting. You have a lot of college grads. Dana college graduates, guys who have written bestselling books for the new york times, um, you know, and people who have gone on to do other things after their fight career. You know, there are a lot of fighters, men and women under the ufc umbrella. Good looking, does that help . Dana right. It definitely helps. Listen, at the end of the day, when youre in the fight business, youre looking for people who can fight. People who can fight, who are so good, that you know theyre going to be a World Champion some day or in the top five, right . Now, if it ends up that theyre really good looking. And they speak really well, too, now you got a home run. Um, can i give you my opinion . Yup. I think one of the reasons youve succeeded spectacularly is that pretty much everybody likes to watch a fight, but a lot of people are afraid to admit it. Dana right. Harvey and you made it entertaining. Commentator and he goes down hes down and Chuck Liddell is the new heavyweight champion of the world Chuck Liddell. crowd cheers dana thank you. I agree with you. Fightings in our dna. We get it and we like it and its the truth. Its we are even as human beings, since the beginning of time, if you think of the most famous athletes to ever walk the face of the earth, none of them are more famous than fighters. Since the beginning of time. You credit donald trump for helping the ufc succeed. Dana you know, when we started this thing and were just talking about all the negativity that went along with it. Venues didnt want us to come to their city and perform there. We were having trouble, you know, booking places. Donald trump called, said, love to have you down here in atlantic city. And not only did he invite us down, not only did he cut us a great deal to come there. He showed up for the first fight of the night and stayed till the last fight. How do you feel about tonight . This is pretty exciting. Its been very exciting, amazing. Are you a big fan . Well im a fan, and im becoming more of a fan. We have 13 or 14,000 people tonight. So 2004, um, ufc was still failing. And you were 44 million in debt. Right. Harvey so, what turned it around . So, at the time, Reality Television was huge, and we tried to figure out how do we capitalize on reality tv, yet its the fight business. Nobody wanted to do it. So the fertittas said, forget it, well do it ourselves. Well do everything ourselves. So we financed the thing ourselves which was around 10,000,000 and we came out with what we believed would be our reality show, the ultimate fighter. Gentlemen, you have a very unique opportunity. Many fighters from all over the world dream of someday fighting in the ufc, two of you actually will. Over the next 50 days, two legends in the world of mixed martial arts will be instrumental in deciding who wins the ufc contracts. Harvey and it was a huge hit. Fair to say that the turnaround that made it a massive hit was one of the fighters peeing in another fighters bed. Is he coming . You know what . I didnt take a leak on his bed, i spritzed. Oh there it goes, lets rub it in. Theres a difference, its a little buzzing , just a little, you know, a little sprinkle, a little, hey dana that was the first episode, youre right, yes. When you get a bunch of grown men in a house together, theyre all gonna fight each other at some point. Yeah, its an interesting dynamic. Harvey so, 2016 you sell this for 4 billion dollars. Dana 4. 025 billion. Thats when you get to four, who cares about the 025 . Yeah, yeah. Chump change. Apparently we did, because we negotiated another. 025. laughter i read your cut was Something Like 360 Million Dollars. Right. And that you flipped out and went into hiding. I dont understand that. Yeah. Yeah, i did. I dont understand. Im very im a very routine person. I get up and i do the same workout, i eat the same things and then i go here, and i do. So im a very routine guy. And my whole world was, you know, so far from my routine it was crazy, and, uh, yeah, i dont know if i was ready to sell. How do you feel about it now . No, im pretty happy. laughter it all worked out yeah, really. So, so, i talk to the fertittas everyday and, um, you know, im still an owner. Yeah, i mean, its all good. A few years back you told tmz there wouldnt be a female fighter ever. Tmz reporter when are we gonna see women in the ufc, man . Never. Tmz reporter any time soon . Never . Never. Yeah, that one came back to bite me in the ass a million times. Harvey in the form of ronda rousey. Dana yeah. Here we go tonights fight clock wow right down look at that oh, man, tonights fight brought to you by bud light, the perfect beer for whatever happens. Ronda wants to make it happen quickly. Yeah, she gave it theres the arm shouting and cheering harvey she changed it, didnt she . Dana oh, yeah, she changed everything. She changed me, um, she changed peoples perception of women. She changed womens perception of women. She changed what little girls believe is possible i mean, uh. And she changed the fight game. This sport, this revolution, together we have redefined what it means to be strong, to be sexy, we changed what it means to fight like a girl. crowd cheers Conor Mcgregor, kind of your muhammad ali. Yeah, definitely. I ridiculed everyone on the roster and i just wanna say from the bottom of me heart, id like to take this chance to apologize, to absolutely nobody crowd cheers the double champ does what the bleep he wants dana hes my ali, hes my tyson. Yeah, he burst onto the scene and i knew, the minute i sat down and had dinner with him that this kid was gonna be a star. I didnt know if hed be able to fight, and i didnt know if hed be able to win a title, but i knew he was going to be a star. Harvey Lorenzo Fertitta said. If i had gone out and bought the ufc and went out and hired a harvard mba, or some guy that ran a big corporation, we would have been toast a long time ago. Dana was the perfect fit. Thats high praise for you. Yeah, that was nice of him. Thats high praise for you. Sometimes passion beats education even. It does, it absolutely does. I believe that anybody who follows what they love and what theyre passionate about to do, i believe that youre gonna be successful at it. I truly do. You are fiercely loyal to donald trump. Im never going to say anything bad about donald trump, ever. I am very good to the people that are good to me. And, yeah, i can go the other way too. 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You can count on us. This room is remarkable. Thank you, nobodys seen this room except for my inner, inner circle, yeah. This room i built because i cant travel to all the fights like i used to. So, i used to i went on a 12 or 13 year run where i didnt miss a fight all over the world, so i built this room. So in here, i can talk directly to the truck no matter where we are in the world. I watch the fights here, i got a chef in the other room, he cooks me dinner and i sit in here and watch the fights and i talk to the truck and run the entire production from here. Harvey the truck where the control room is. Right. Okay, so this chapter of your life is about allies and enemies. Tell me about this. So this is an email from mark cuban who used to be an enemy and became an ally. When this thing started to take off, everybody and their brother got into the business, and cuban was one of them. So youre actually a fan of mma, right . Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Im not gonna get involved with something unless i like it, and so, i started watching back five years ago maybe when wec was on hdnet and thats what got me into it, and so we just continued to expand. Dana so, somehow he connects with Randy Couture. Harvey the fighter. Dana yes. And Randy Couture is trying to get out of his ufc contract and basically trying to cast me as the devil. And all these horrible things, you know, that ive done, and all this stuff. To get out of the contract, so that he could go with mark cubans. Yeah, with cuban and another group. It didnt work out, you know, so he ends up staying with the ufc. Harvey and you were pissed off at mark cuban for trying to take him away. Well, its just like, you know, im not gonna do business with cuban. So during this, me and cuban are at a nightclub called tryst at wynn and hes there, and you know, we kind of get up on the stools and kind of start going at each other. Harvey for real . Oh, yeah. So we get into it at tryst. And then the whole court case happens, we win. August 19, 2010, i get an email out of the blue from mark cuban. It says, uh, just write you a check for a Million Dollars so we can get past this. So then i respond to him, 2 million is what laughs i said, 2 million is what you cost me. harvey laughs and . So cuban, we ended doing a deal for 2 million bucks and not only did we start doing business with cuban, but cuban has become a good friend of mine and i like and respect him very much. So, you once said, you want to be my friend, im the best friend you could ever have. You wanna go the other way . Im for sure, the worst enemy you could ever have. That is true. I am very good to the people that are good to me. And, uh, yeah i can go the other way, too. If you dont want to be my friend, then we can definitely be enemies. Im good with that too. On the friends side, you are fiercely loyal to donald trump. Yes. Yes. Even before there were any president ial talks or any of that stuff, donald trump was one of the guys who also started to get into mma. For over 15 years, donald trump has been a loyal and supportive friend. And i know that if i needed donald, he would be there for me just like he was when i first met him. Im never gonna say anything bad about donald trump, ever. Ever, ever, ever. That guy gave us our start when nobody would talk to us. Nobody no arenas wanted us. This guys reached out and hes always been a friend to me. The guys always been a friend to me. Donald trump has never done anything remotely negative to me ever. Except try to compete with me. Im not gonna say anything negative about him and i never have. The biggest feud may have been with a guy that you first managed, tito ortiz. They look at us as just slaves for you, man. Thats what it comes down to, thats all they care dana thats what all these guys feel like, slaves. Huh . These guys are competitors who come in here who want to prove that theyre the best. Some of them fight four, five times a year tito because youre going to make them a superstar. Because youre going to make them a superstar. Because this is where they want to be. Tito thats your quote words. Im gonna make you a superstar. Dana no, youre the one that wants to be a superstar. These guys wanna be fighters, thats the difference. Yeah, okay. Dana so tito and i at that point in both of our careers, we could just not get along. We could not get along. It was so bad that, um, i dont know if ive ever been. That at odds with anybody in my life like i was with tito. I have never heard in my career of the owner of a company, essentially challenging an employee to a fight. I did not. Ah. He challenged me. You accepted. So in the new contract that he filled out, he did the contract with lorenzo cause he and i couldnt even be in the same room. He is the one that said, ill sign this if i can set up a boxing match with dana for three rounds. So lorenzo called me, i was like. Harvey you said yes. Absolutely. harvey laughs do it. Yes. I trained for it. I brought in, like, real guys. I spent serious time really training for this fight and i was absolutely gonna do it. He blinked. He did, he blinked. And im pretty sure hes admitted that he did. But he basically sent me a text that said im gonna let you off the hook. Could you have won . Yeah, i would have won. I absolutely would have won that boxing match. He knows it too, thats why we didnt box. You have, um, been fiercely loyal to a lot of your fighters. At the same time, when you feel theyre not up to par, you have sometimes berated them on twitter and just talked about how boring they were, how bad they were. Dana right. Harvey kind of pissed people off. Right. Well, guess what . This isnt the fun business, this isnt you dont get to go out and just, you know, put on a terrible performance and act like you, you know, just did something incredible. This sums it up they broke a record tonight. The least punches ever thrown and the crappiest fight youve ever seen. It was 130 punches, they threw 60, okay . So thats how bad the fight was. And the guys that i went after, you know, and the guys that i did that to, if you watch their performances and what happened that night, most of them deserved it. You, um, are the face, and in many ways the mouth of ufc. I mean this respectfully, in some ways you remind me of those barkers outside of a strip club. cause youre just unrelenting that way. Oh, believe me, ive heard that one before. Oh, really . And a few practical waysith you your family can stay healthy. First, hand washing is essential. 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Dana yeah, so im a big peppers fan too, the red hot chili peppers. Harvey yeah. Dana and Anthony Kiedis is a good friend and a huge ufc fan. Hes such a fan that even the stuff that we do on fight pass, hell be on the road, hell watch in on his phone or on his computer, he watches everything. And those are actually fleas bass guitars spun by damien hirst. You love being a celebrity. Um, listen, being a celebrity has its ups and downs, but what i love, what i would say that i love more is, when i got out, you know how most people get bothered by people coming up to them. People come up to you at dinner. Id never say no to people though. Im just as happy to meet them as they are to meet me. Tell me about partying, partying with celebs. I mean thats part of your dna just Like Fighting is. Yeah. Well, especially when i was younger, i cant party the way i used to, but, yeah, ive partied with tons of people. Um, but i like hanging out, i like hanging out with people that i actually really like. I dont just hang out with a celebrity cause hes a celebrity. Ive known you now for a number of years. And i knew you before you came upon this huge windfall of money. Right. Harvey i mean you were doing well, but not like this. Right. I dont think youve changed. Thank you. Harvey i mean, honestly, you seem like the same guy to me. You know whats the most important thing in the world to me . People i knew 30 years ago still say that. Thats important to me. You are the face and in many ways the mouth of ufc. I mean this respectfully in some ways you remind me of those barkers outside of a strip club thats just. Dana right. Harvey . Trying to get people in under the tent all the time. Dana oh, yeah. shouting the reigning, defending, 155 pound champion of the ufc, the notorious Conor Mcgregor harvey cause youre just unrelenting that way. Dana oh, believe me, ive heard that one before, um. Really . Oh, yeah. Me and joe rogan, you know, were pumping up the fights, but thats what we do. Part of what make you stand out, is, um, colorful language. Whats your favorite word . bleep is my favorite word, yeah. laughter yeah, yeah, i love it, it is absolutely my favorite word. Lorenzo just sent me a hoodie today as a gift, and its yves saint laurent, it says, bleep creative. laughs is what the hoodie says. And, uh, yeah, its my word. You are famous at places like the Palace Station casino. Dana uh. harvey laughs yeah, ive hung around there a couple times. And blackjacks your passion. I love playing blackjack, but i love to win. And theres obviously super highs and super lows when youre playing. I was playing when you can ask my wife, i was playing that stuff when i was broke. I have a trophy, and because im a celebrity, they invited to play in this 250,000 winner takeall, i think it was like a 54 man tournament. Long story short, i make it to the last table, and you can feel the tension. I won. Wow. I won the whole tournament, and i won 250,000, won the tournament, and the trophy sits in my office, and i swear to god, you know how when you pass away and youre in the coffin, i told my wife i want the trophy right here in my hands when they bury me, man. Its my. Its my favorite thing ever. Im undefeated. I dont like religion, i think religion is dangerous, all religion is dangerous, and i think its all bad, and uh, it should probably all go away. And i think its all bad, my agerelated macular degenso today i made a plan with my doctor, which includes preservision. Because he said a multi vitamin alone may not be enough. And its my vision, my morning walk, my sunday drive, my grandsons beautiful face. Only preservision areds2 contains the exact nutrient formula recommended by the National Eye Institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. Its how i see my life. Because its my vision. Preservision. From anyone else. So why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Get allinone allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. Harvey first of all, this garage is ridiculous. Its like a car show room. Is this yours . My youngest sons 16th birthday is coming up and, uh, this is the car i bought him. Its a land rover defender. Harvey youre giving this to a 16yearold kid . Dana im giving it to a 16yearold kid, yeah. This is the car i want him to drive. Harvey so, you met your wife anne in the eighth grade. Dana yeah, we met in the eighth grade and then we were really good friends all through high school. And there were a lot of women in between, howd you end up with your eighth grade friend . Dana when i came back from boston, she picked me up at the airport and weve been together ever since. Really . Yeah, itll be 23 years this november. Shes deeply religious. Shes deeply religious. Yeah, shes very catholic. You said, um, i dont believe in god, the devil, ghosts, or any of that bleep . laughs exactly. Listen, i say some things that she doesnt love all the time. I dont like religion, i think religion is dangerous. All religion is dangerous. I think its scary and its dangerous and i think its all bad and it should probably all go away. You can believe in whatever you want to believe in in life and the afterlife, but religion is dangerous. Youre a very public person and i never see annie out. Right. Shes very private. Yeah, so, shes the typical italian, you know, always with her family and her kids. Thats it. Thats all she cares about. Shes not one of these wives that are trying to jump in front of the camera or get on social media, or any of that stuff, shes pretty private. You have three kids. Three kids. Two teenage sons and a daughter. Yup. Harvey how involved of a dad are you . Very involved, yeah. You know, people always ask me, what do you want to be remembered for . You know, when its all over in your career, what do you want . I dont really care about any of that stuff. What i did for work means nothing. When its all over and youre laying there and youre going somewhere else. Its about what your kids get up say, and what they thought of ya. At the end of the day, thats your real legacy, your job isnt your legacy. Is part of that because your dad was absent . Im sure a big part of that is, yeah. Im sure. I definitely said that i would never do that to my kids, absolutely. Harvey you oldest son, dana, is heavy into football. Dana mmhmm. And you know what people are saying about football and brain injuries. Does it worry you . No. Not at all. Harvey how come . Because thats what he wants to do thats his passion, thats what he loves. Um, everything is dangerous. Your ride to the airport tonight is going to be dangerous. Thanks. chuckles you cant live your life like that. You cant live your life like that. You gotta do what you love to do. Whatever gets you out of bed in the morning, go for it. How about your daughter . She wants to play football, shes like my third son. Um, shes into gymnastics, shes really good at it and, uh, yeah, me and my daughter have a blast. My daughter is one of my favorite people to hang out with. So, youre dad was an alcoholic and abusive, possibly partly because of the alcohol mmhmm. Harvey and you dont drink a whole lot. No. Does it worry you that without seeing the down side of drinking and drugs because you havent really done it. Yeah. That it exposes them a little bit. It does, and i think about that a lot. My kids are gonna have a completely different set of issues than i had growing up because they have a completely different life than i had. My favorite dana white story. Tell me. My favorite dana white story is you lived in a development where theres a Homeowners Association and you had a pool that was way too big. A lagoon, waterfalls, and they said, were gonna fine you 2,000 a month unless you remove it. Dana yeah. Harvey and you did what . I said youre gonna have to send a Cruise Missile back here to take this pool out, it aint happening. laughs i built this pool for my kids. And, uh, i got into a huge beef with these guys for a long time and i won. Well, my understanding was you just kept paying the 2,000. Thats it, but the pool stayed. laughter thats a win. You now have a five Year Contract with wme. Right. Youre pushing 50. Mmhmm. How long are you gonna go . Right. Youre pushing 50. I am totally blind. And non24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. Talk to your doctor, and call 8442142424. bobby youre concerned that its going to cost you money. Ouble, ben to this day, i only paid what i had to pay for the device. When i go back, everything is covered. 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Figuring out whos who, whats what, and whos gonna fight, and where theyre gonna go, and who we think the next star could be and all that stuff. Its all done right here in this room. So, you now how have a five Year Contract with wme. grunts right. Youre pushing 50. Mmhmm. How long are you gonna go . I love this, im just as passionate about it now as i was when i was younger. Can i sit here right now and tell you what my futures going to be . I dont, but i love what i do, i love where i work, i love the people im doing it with. Sounds pretty good to me. You are battling a really kind of insidious disease called menieres, which is an innerear issue that causes vertigo and tinnitus and all sorts of things. Um, how does that affect your life . A lot, um, especially the last several years. And since january ive been hurting bad because i was going out to germany and getting these shots that stopped working, so i had to figure Something Else out. So i went to the mayo clinic down in arizona and theres a guy named doctor weisskopf down there. He gave me these injections and have completely fixed me and saved my life again, man. The guys incredible and a lot of people who suffer from menieres commit suicide. Thats how bad this is. Its uncontrollable vertigo, ringing of the ear, and hes the man. Changed my life, again. Youre doing better. Much better. Im back. Thats great. You dont like sleeping. No, so i especially younger, i didnt get much sleep when i was younger. I wish that we didnt have to sleep, i would love that. You know, theyre talking about all the bad things that not sleeping does to you, but ive never been a guy whos needed a lot of sleep. How much do you get . More than i used to. I used to live on four or five hours back in the day, now i get six or seven. You were talking about making noises going into boxing. Yeah. I thought boxing is more on the decline, right. Ufcs on the upswing. Why . Yeah, because i feel like theres a lot of big fights that could be made out there. I feel like i could make a difference. And i feel like i could do a good job. Im doing something. I dont know what im doing yet, but im doing something. Im gonna make a move here soon and well see how it works out. So, you are a very rich man, incredibly successful. Youve built a brand thats about as strong as anything in the world. Whats motivating you now . I still look at whats next. This sport isnt the biggest sport in the world, its not bigger than the nfl in the United States and around the world. And theres just so much more to do, and i believe that im the guy to do it. Dana, i am so impressed with you and i really appreciate the time. Its so interesting hearing the life story of somebody who wasnt handed something and what youve done is awesome. Thank you, buddy, i appreciate it. Thank you so much. Likewise. From the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromos wall street. 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