Dana White on Trial, Conor’s Value & the Truth About UFC Pay | Episode 473
The Big Brown Breakdown
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4.0 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Dana White takes the stand in the UFC antitrust lawsuit, and the MMA world is already jumping to the wrong conclusions. On this episode of The Schaub Show, Brendan breaks down what the lawsuit actually means, why the UFC business model isn’t changing anytime soon, and why fighters will never unionize the way fans think they should.
Brendan dives into fighter pay myths, Conor McGregor’s real value to the UFC, whether Dana White still runs matchmaking, and why boxing continues to inflate stars while MMA stays controlled. There’s also a breakdown of Volkanovski vs Arman, the current contender logjam, and why “the greatest card ever” narratives rarely hold up.
This episode also marks the first edition of the second weekly Schaub Show episode featuring fan-submitted questions. Brendan answers questions sent in directly by fans, reacting in real time and digging deeper into topics the audience actually wants covered.
If you’re confused by the headlines or tired of surface-level MMA takes, this episode gives you the real context.
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| 0:00.0 | right through the city like brinnishaw i'm on a mission to get it all right through the city like |
| 0:05.8 | brennishaw if you ain't thick please don't get involved and now brandon thick boy shop yes sir welcome welcome. Second episode this week. We back, baby. We're doing two shows a week now, Monday, Thursdays. Let's ride, kids. You asked for it. Here we are. It's Thursday, February 5th on this lovely, lovely Austin early afternoon. |
| 0:40.3 | It's going to get 70 today. |
| 0:41.4 | I'll take it. |
| 0:42.4 | Let's get into it, man. |
| 0:43.6 | One of the reasons we wanted to do this is a lot of fight news comes out Tuesday through |
| 0:48.7 | the following Sunday, right? |
| 0:50.3 | And your boy just giving hot takes every Monday. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm late to the action so we're here to |
| 0:56.3 | get caught up current with everything going on and just since Monday today's Thursday there's a ton of |
| 1:02.6 | stuff your boy Dana White your boy Dana White Nick and Chin was what you say on trial? |
| 1:13.6 | He had to take the stand and this for the antitrust lawsuit |
| 1:16.4 | and they're basically what I know |
| 1:19.5 | I don't know if you guys looked in the article I sent |
| 1:21.1 | but basically what they're doing |
| 1:22.7 | is they're trying to access the phone records |
| 1:26.9 | because I guess they're saying you know the |
| 1:30.2 | the ufc brass deleted some of the texts and stuff because they did a lot of negotiation through |
| 1:34.6 | texts and then what else also came to fruition in these court documents is Dana admits and i |
| 1:42.6 | think people are freaking out more than they should about this but it is what it is uh Dana admits, and I think people are freaking out more than they should about this, |
| 1:44.9 | but it is what it is. |
| 1:47.2 | Dana admits that he doesn't really handle the UFC matchmaking anymore. |
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