Dana White says he ‘Howard Hughes’d’ himself for a couple of days after UFC sale

Now that the UFC has sold to WME-IMG for a little over four billion dollars, it’s time to see how things will change. Yet one constant even after cashing in for over $300 million dollars seems to be UFC president Dana White, who will remain the public face of the UFC for at least five more years.

White appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Show on Thursday night, just three days before UFC 201 in Atlanta, and laid down how it feels to be cashing in so big on an original $2 million dollar investment between him and his business partners, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta.

“It doesn’t suck,” he said about the transaction.

Even though he’s cashing out as a nine percent owner in Zuffa’s holdings, White said he was a little stunned by the actuality that it was all happening. Particularly because he will be parting ways with his longtime business partners, the Fertitta brothers.

“You know, you get to the point where you…you know, I’m 47, and I’ve been working, we’ve been doing this for almost 20 years,” he said. “And I don’t know what else I need.

“I can tell you this, and this is the honest to god truth. When this deal closed, it bugged me out a little bit. I don’t know. When you make that kind of money and my …

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