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<a href="/biography/dana-whites">Dana Frederick White, Jr.</a>(popularly known as Dana White), was born to June White and Dana White, Sr. on July 28, 1969. This gentleman from Manchester, Connecticut with Irish descent had an amazing childhood and was very fond of boxing since he was young. He, along with his sister Kelly was taken care by his mother in his childhood days. In 1987, he completed his graduation Hermon High School, Maine. The history and childhood of Dana White says that he was brought up in her maternal home.

White was just a normal businessman and a manager for <a href="/biography/chuck-liddell">Chuck Liddell</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Ortiz">Tito Ortiz</a>. It never happened before December, 2000 that White heard about sell of Semaphore Entertainment Group. SEG was a company that was owned by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). In January 2001, White bought SEG along with Lorenzo Fertitta, his brother. White became the president of the organisation. Fertittas formed Zuffa (an entity that managed UFA). Dana owns nine percent of Zuffa.

Dana have had many feuds in his career. From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Arum">Bob Arum</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shamrock">Ken Shamrock</a>, White has beenassociated in controversies with a number of people in his life. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Arum">Bob Arum</a> and White had issues regarding a show. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Arum">Bob Arum</a>, the promoter was supposed to promote the show FLoyd vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_De_La_Hoya">De La Hoya</a>. White criticised him for not promoted him properly. In the same row, he accused <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Couture">Randy Couture</a> in an issue that wasn't known in open. However, he was quoted as saying in public that he has no respect for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Couture">Randy</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Ortiz">Tito Ortiz</a> also had a fight with White because White refused to be his manager. There fight rose to such an extent that Dana even challenged him for a fight. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Ortiz">Tito</a> didn't turn up for the fight but was seen wearing T-shirts that ridiculed White. In the same trail, Ken Shamrick was disliked by White because he thought <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Shamrock">Ken</a> had contacts with the competitors of UFA. However, Shamrick believed that he had done so much for Dana. He also filed a lawsuit against the UFC co-owner and claimed that Dana owed him a lot of money.

In a situation comedy named 'The League', Dana White appeared in a episode named "The Goon" in the year 2013. Dana White became quite famous at that time and the episode was acclaimed by many. The sad time of Dana arrived when the businessman was diagnosed with a serious disease, 'Meniere's Disease'. He also won the Leading Man of the Year awards for years 2010-14. However, the treatment has reduced the symptoms to high level. In teh year 2009, Dana was awarded Nevada Sportsman of the Year. He is an <a href="/biography/dana-whites">atheist</a>. Dana White married his wife Anne White in the year 1996. He is quite social <a href="/biography/dana-whites">guy</a> and has 3.5 million followers on Twitter,while he has 900k followers on Facebook. Dana White has an outstanding net worth of around USD 350 million. He has earned this money through his business, endorsements, fights etc.

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