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Originally Posted by TopNotchJits
Why is it so fucking hard to start a thread around here?
Many people seem to be under the conclusion that Dana White was the brains behind, what can easily be labeled as MMA's springboard, TUF. They're wrong. It was the Fertitta Brothers who came up with the idea (which Dana was originally against). So please, stop giving Dana credit for their idea.
Source: The Fertitta brothers gamble with Ultimate Fighting - Nov. 8, 2006 |
You have to make up your mind, you can't pick and choose what Dana gets teh credit for and what he gets the blame for.
The fact of the matter is, the 3 of them probably make all of the decisions together. It doesn't matter who was for this idea or who was against this idea. The three-headed monster of Zuffa are apparently the only people who know how to operate a functioning MMA organization, that has to count for something. If Dana was as big of an idiot as everyone would like to believe, either the UFC would be dead, or the Fertitas would have bought him out or fired him as president and made him a silent owner, or bought him out.
Is isn't the angel that created MMA, but he isn't the devil everyone else makes him out to be either, the truth is somewhere in the middle, but it has to be more towards the "good businessman" side because of the results.