Dana White Breaks Down Everything: UFC, White House Fight Night, Power Slap & Disrupting Boxing

Boardroom with Rich Kleiman

Boardroom Podcast Network

Sports, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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UFC President Dana White sits down with Rich Kleiman in the latest episode of Boardroom Talks for a candid conversation about building one of the most dominant sports empires in history and what's coming next. White breaks down how UFC went from being banned on pay-per-view to selling out 85,000 seats on the South Lawn of the White House, why he believes boxing is fundamentally broken and how he plans to fix it, and the inside story of Power Slap, the sport that outpaced UFC in sponsorship revenue in its first two years.

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0:00.0	No matter what color you are, what country you come from, what language you speak, we're all human beings.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:09.0	Fighting's in our DNA.
0:10.0	We get it and we like it.
0:12.0	We're about to do a fight on the south lawn of the White House.
0:17.0	A little bit of fear, a little bit of adrenaline.
0:19.0	These guys that are on the main card will slap your
0:21.6	head right off your shoulders.
0:23.6	I'm telling you, and when they slap, it sounds like a gunshot.
0:27.6	Power slap is the most successful thing I've ever been a part of in such a short amount of time.
0:32.6	I don't give a shit what you've done.
0:34.6	Show me right now, right here, who you are and what you got.
0:38.2	When people were telling me, you'll never be boxing, who the fuck is he?
0:41.6	Yeah.
0:41.9	To think that he's going to come in and change a sport that's over 100 years old.
0:46.2	And here we are today.
0:47.5	It does a billion views a month.
0:51.0	There's nothing else in the world that makes you feel that way.
0:55.0	Where do you go after the sphere?
0:58.0	The moon.
0:59.0	What will success ultimately look like at the White House?
1:04.0	What's up everybody and welcome to a special episode of Boardroom?
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