Dana White on FBI Gambling Ring, White House Fight, & Francis Ngannou Beef Explained

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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YERRR – this week the boys got deep in the fight game and political madness with Dana White. – Boxing is cooked and UFC is storming the White House – Trump love, Bill Maher dinners, and what Dana learned from Trump – McGregor’s chaos, & Jon Jones legacy – Paramount deals, PPV changes, and the death of monoculture – Superstar spotting, UFC predictions, and Vegas casino warfare 0:00 Intro 00:58 Boxing is in a bad place + Bud Crawford 3:13 UFC White House Card 6:41 Jim Jones saying no + McGregor up for anything 9:53 Why is Trump doing this? Defending Trump 17:08 Bill Maher dinner + Knowing Trump personally 21:51 Not agreeing + Learning from Trump 26:02 Death of monoculture + Excitement with Movies 32:59 Compelling events + What’s at stake? 42:34 Disrupting boxing + Dana needs stakes 48:04 Great fights are paramount + Jon Jones 52:32 Fighter Dana was afraid of? Francis Ngannou’s a bad guy 59:38 Killer instinct + Proper medical support 1:03:01 Monitoring gambling activity + Calling FBI 1:13:56 Happens every week, Paramount deal + Always the next 1:17:39 No PPV going to impact views? 1:19:59 Spotting a superstar? Ronda Rousey starting it for women 1:26:05 UFC card predictions + Kevin “Big Mouth” Holland 1:31:05 Most excited about right now + Dominating sport 1:37:34 War with Bellagio, Casino hustling + The energy 1:42:49 Is Vegas struggling? Netflix doc + Me vs Casino All that and more on this week’s episode of FLAGRANT. INDULGE. This episode is sponsored by Kalshi. This episode is sponsored by Sesh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I mean, the fighters are literally going to walk from the Oval Office.
0:03.0	Yeah.
0:04.0	No.
0:05.0	Wait.
0:06.0	Why don't they pass a couple of executive orders?
0:08.0	It's going to cost us a million bucks to replace the lawn.
0:11.0	Wow.
0:12.0	There was only some people that weren't deported that could do that for cheaper.
0:15.0	Donald, put ice on hold for like a few more months. Do you want to dwarf the Super Bowl?
0:22.6	No. I want to dwarf fucking soccer.
0:24.6	Give me 30 fucking million in credit.
0:27.6	Let me bet a million dollars a hand and let's go me versus you.
0:30.6	If you fuck around with any of those fucking casinos, you're crazy.
0:34.6	You might go out back and light your money on fucking fire.
0:36.6	So this guy basically lied and said... I saw you talking about the gambling. Yeah. The day of the fight, which was a couple weeks ago, the bet monitoring system hit us up. They said there's some irregular shit going on with this fight. I literally went in the back and called the FBI. Holy shit. Trust me, I've had my moments with plenty of fighters. Did David, why that a little story for us? I guess the one I will tell you is. When you think about where boxing is right now, how fucked up the sport is. Start the pod. Start the pot right here. It takes Saudi money to make these kind of fights. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Money that makes no sense financially as far as a business goes. Yeah. You cannot run a fucking business like that. But you're going to change it. I'm going to try. You're going to try to change it. I'm going to try. Let's figure out how. Yeah. How do you do it? Yeah, what did they say about boxing fights? I sold it from the ground up. There was like every single fight is it going out of business sale? Mm-hmm.
1:31.0	That's exactly what it is. You know what I mean? Yeah. Let's get as much money from all the guys on this couch as we can. Yeah. And let's not make them feel like they got what they paid for at the end of the night. Were you surprised at the Crawford victory?
1:47.7	Every guy who knows about boxing told me Crawford would win.
1:52.0	Yeah, same.
1:52.5	Okay.
1:52.8	So here's the thing.
1:54.3	I was at Canella Mayweather in Vegas.
1:57.7	Like I saw it live.
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