Dana White was a boxer in high school. Later, he was a college dropout and a boxercise coach before running up a debt with Boston’s Irish mob that forced him to move to Las Vegas.
White eventually landed work as a manager for fighters including Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, before he helped broker the deal for the UFC between owner Bob Meyrowitz and his childhood friend Lorenzo Fertitta. He became UFC president after the Fertitta brothers bought it.