Dana White Fumes at Critics Who Attacked Him After Infamous Video of Him Slapping His Wife: They ‘Can Go F*ck Themselves’

UFC president Dana White didn’t care how his critics felt when video surfaced of him slapping his wife at a New Year’s Eve party in Mexico.

White faced significant backlash from the January 2023 incident. In a statement published not long after the clip went viral, White confirmed it was he and his wife in the video and said there’s “never, ever an excuse for a guy to put his hands on a woman.”

UFC President Dana White and his wife were recorded having a physical fight in Mexico on New Year’s Eve.

White says a lot of alcohol was involved and that nothing like that ever happened before.

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On a recent episode of Shannon Sharpe’s podcast Club Shay Shay, White said the only opinions he cared about were his children’s.

“It wasn’t about getting through it publicly,” White told Sharpe. “It was about getting through it personally with my kids. Me and my wife are fine. Me and my wife had — whatever… My kids have never seen that before. It was on the world stage. We embarrassed them. No kids wanna see that shit with the parents.

“Everybody else can go fuck themselves, OK? It had nothing to do with them. It was about my family. That’s what’s important. The people who know me and know her, they know us. We’re fine. It was my kids. That was something personal between me and my family.”