Mum's damning comments amid fresh Dana stain

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UFC president Dana White has escaped punishment from his bosses aft being filmed slapping his woman successful a nightclub connected New Year's Eve.

Following the merchandise of the vision, which captures White slapping his woman aft she slapped him successful a nightclub successful Mexico, the UFC president has faced outer unit to permission his post, adjacent though the promotion's owners person remained silent.

Speaking to the media successful idiosyncratic for the archetypal clip since the video surfaced, White said his punishment is the mislaid respect and nationalist humiliation he'll person to endure for the remainder of his life.

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"What should the repercussions be? You archer me," White said.

"I instrumentality 30 days off? How does that wounded me? I told you guys erstwhile we were going done COVID, COVID could past 10 years. I could person sat it out.

"It's overmuch similar COVID, actually. Me leaving hurts the company, hurts my employees, hurts the fighters. It doesn't wounded me.

"I could person near successful 2016. I don't know, bash I request to reflect? No, I don't request to reflect. The adjacent greeting erstwhile I woke up … I've been against this. I've owned this. I'm telling you that I was wrong.

"Listen, we've had plentifulness of discussions internally with Ari [Emanuel, the Endeavour CEO], ESPN. Nobody's happy. Nobody's blessed astir this. Neither americium I, but it happened and I person to woody with it.

"What is my punishment? You're my punishment. I've got to locomotion astir for nevertheless agelong I live, whether it's 10.4 years oregon different 25 years and this is however I'm labelled now.

"My different punishment is I'm definite a batch of people, whether it beryllium media, fighters, friends, acquaintances who had respect for maine mightiness not person respect for maine now.

"There's a batch of things I'm going to person to woody with for the remainder of my beingness that are mode much of a punishment than what, I instrumentality a 30-day, 60-day absence.

"That's not a punishment to me. The punishment is that I did it and present I person to woody with it."

For present the lone repercussions White has to look is simply a broadcast hold of his "Power Slap League" which was moved from January 11 to January 18 with a tv debut connected TBS successful the US.

The UFC's broadcast partner, ESPN, has besides remained tight-lipped astir the issue, with newsman Jeff Wagenheim confirming the institution has urged its employees to code the incidental connected societal media, portion paid commentators connected the web person been skewered for their brushed approach.

In his archetypal apology aired connected TMZ, White said helium and his woman had ne'er engaged successful a combat similar the 1 witnessed connected New's Year's Eve.

Commentators online are furious astir the deficiency of action, particularly aft erstwhile comments White had made astir home abuse, saying determination is nary mode to travel backmost from it arsenic a man.

Even quotes from an interrogation with White's mum from 2011 person resurfaced. In the interrogation to beforehand her unauthorised biography of her lad titled "Dana White, King of MMA," she described White arsenic a "vindictive tyrant" who treats women poorly.

"He's not a bully person," June said successful the 2011 interview. "He seems to person mislaid his quality determination on the way. He mistreats people. It's unspeakable the mode helium speaks to women and treats women.

"Everyone knows that helium puts Tiger Woods to shame," she added. "Plenty of the ringing paper girls slumber with him. There's 2 of them I cognize for sure. … He slept with his sister-in-law successful my house, which made maine perfectly furious."

She continued: "I mean, helium goes aft immoderate miss helium wants and usually gets them. "His woman is – they're perpetually fighting. The honeymoon, she gave him the worst achromatic oculus I've ever seen and astir mislaid his eye. So I don't cognize if that's his mode of handling that, but he's gone overboard with handling that."

White reiterated astatine his property league that he's been punished, and that he'll ne'er retrieve from the incident.

"You don't bounce backmost from this. You don't ever bounce backmost from this," White said.

"For the remainder of my life, similar I said, nevertheless agelong that is, radical are going to statement maine that. I did it. That's it. I did it. … You don't bounce backmost from it. You aftermath up each time and effort to beryllium amended than you were yesterday, and you marque definite that that ne'er happens again.

"Whatever steps you'd person to instrumentality to marque definite that you're ne'er successful that concern and that ne'er happens again, that's what I request to do. And it's a fact. There's a mates things successful beingness that you don't bounce backmost from, and this is 1 of them. That's a fact."

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