Sep 4, 2026 · 24 min · 16 segments
Dana White joins Chris Hayre for a look ahead to a stacked September for the UFC and Zuffa Boxing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What's the biggest, in your eyes, the biggest success stories that have come out of the Contender Series?
Oh, well, listen, if you come out of a show like that, which is designed to be a pipeline for talent, and these guys actually become world champions, you know, Sean O'Malley, Hill.
And to even get into the UFC and break into the top ten, top five is a huge accomplishment.
How much have you taken from the UFC and what have you learned in terms of Zufa in terms of like what you want that live experience for boxing to look like?
Well, what I don't ever want to do is when somebody tunes into my event, I don't want them to turn it off.
Or if they come live, they walk out and say, I don't ever want to do this again, right? Or money is one thing.
But what you don't want to do is feel like you wasted somebody's time on a Saturday night.
So in boxing, what would happen is you'd have a fight and then these guys would have like a podcast in between the fight and the next fight would start, you know, 40 minutes later.
The card is stacked from the first fight of the night to the main event with not only great fights, but fights that matter and mean something in the bigger picture.
What's the biggest, in your eyes, the biggest success stories that have come out of the Contender Series?
Oh, well, listen, if you come out of a show like that, which is designed to be a pipeline for talent, and these guys actually become world champions, you know, Sean O'Malley, Hill.
And to even get into the UFC and break into the top ten, top five is a huge accomplishment.
How much have you taken from the UFC and what have you learned in terms of Zufa in terms of like what you want that live experience for boxing to look like?
Well, what I don't ever want to do is when somebody tunes into my event, I don't want them to turn it off.
Or if they come live, they walk out and say, I don't ever want to do this again, right? Or money is one thing.
But what you don't want to do is feel like you wasted somebody's time on a Saturday night.
So in boxing, what would happen is you'd have a fight and then these guys would have like a podcast in between the fight and the next fight would start, you know, 40 minutes later.
The card is stacked from the first fight of the night to the main event with not only great fights, but fights that matter and mean something in the bigger picture.
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