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When it comes to the fight game, hype and reality are so intermingled that it becomes impossible to determine what side of the line anyone is straddling during a profanity-laced answer on a conference call. It's as hopeless as guessing the exact moment this White-Ortiz feud began. Not to mention as tedious. That's the point. Ortiz might be preparing for the final fight of his contract at UFC ... [link]

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Today’s chalkboard (5/22/08)
Published 5/22/2008 by Zach Arnold at FightOpinion.com
... (5/22/08) By Zach Arnold | May 22, 2008 | Print This We should have an audio preview of this upcoming UFC event either available tonight or early tomorrow morning. New Hampshire is preparing for MMA legislation . Onto today’s headlines. The Las Vegas Sun: The art in UFC’s violence - fighters, emotion, blood captured in book, exhibit The Las Vegas Sun: Glorified jock posters or art, project pretty cool The Las Vegas Review-Journal: UFC head Dana White - ‘The white Don King’ The Long Beach Press-Telegram: UFC owner Dana White ...

Dana White savaged in today’s Las Vegas paper
Published 5/22/2008 by Jim Murphy at MMA Blog - TheSavageScience.com
... fighters, its collective faces of the sport, weren’t going to forever accept strict restrictions on their earning potential and possible opponents; and people with more money than God were going to copy the model and form their own MMA companies. White doesn’t care about either. Nor should he. Like it. Detest it. It’s reality, the result of success he helped construct. We’ve heard more comparisons to WWE head Vince McMahon than Don King, but in any case the column is a must read… UFC head White: ‘The white Don King’ @ Las Vegas Review Journal

UFC President Dana White Rips Reporter Who Called Him 'The White Don King'
Published 5/27/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: UFCLast week, Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Ed Graney wrote a column about UFC President Dana White. The column appeared under the headline, UFC head White: 'The white Don King'. White was not amused. In a radio interview with Steve Cofield, White insisted that he's nothing at all like Don King, the boxing promoter who has served prison time for killing someone and frequently been accused of financial improprieties. "This moron, not only did he not compare me and Don King, because he ...

Dana White “The White Don King”? No Way.
Published 5/28/2008 by bfowlkes at Cage Potato - MMA News, Knockout Videos, and the Hottest Ring Girls
... Las Vegas Review Journal columnist Ed Graney took a swipe at Dana White last week in a column entitled “ UFC head White: ‘The white Don King ‘”. Dana White, as it turns out, did not care for that comparison. In an interview with ...

It doesn't sound like White wants to work with EliteXC
Published 9 days ago by Steve Cofield at Yahoo! MMA Blog
... Call him Dana White-lite if you'd like. That might piss off White though. Dana sounds like he'd rather be called the 'White Don King'. His response to Shaw's trash talk was to tell NBC that the young promoter is retarded (watch at 2:20). ...

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