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Live updates: Dana White on ESPN Radio 1100 in Las Vegas

Dana White is currently on ESPN Radio 1100 in Las Vegas with Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports and Mike DiSabato of CageFighter. Here are live updates from the show.

On Tito Ortiz:

"Tito and I have been talking and we've been trying to see if we can figure things out."

"It's a possibility."

White says he is working with Mandalay Bay to basejump off the building. He said he'd do this if UFC 100 reached 1.5 million buys on pay per view. This should be a good indication that it reached or surpassed that mark.

White is comparing his business model to that of WWE in terms of royalties, etc., and how fighters will continue to receive royalties for life, whereas in boxing, there is none of that.

On today's events: "Affliction hasn't made any real announcement yet. I've said this for a long time: these guys are good at making clothes. They're not in the fight business, we're in the fight business."

"There's going to be a lot of interesting things happening over the next couple of weeks. We've got a lot of big deals in the works." 

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White says they'll be in Boston soon.

On going to Japan: "Our goal was to keep PRIDE alive and running over there."

"The mafia over there is keeping us out of Japan. It's a whole other world over it. It's tough to navigate through Japan."

"It's rough to do business over there."

On Fedor: "We're trying now and if you want it to happen, I want it to happen."

"It drives me crazy that people put him in the pound-for-pound."

"(If we sign him) he'll fight for the title first."

"A lot more people will know him once he gets in the UFC."

"Fedor has a ton of experience but you can't take anything away from Brock Lesnar. Very good wrestlers do very well in mixed martial arts. It's a very interesting fight."

"If Randy can go out and cut that deal with Fedor, Randy, get to work brother."

White turns 40 on July 28.

On Franklin/Henderson II: My job is to put on fights the fans want to see, so hang tight, stick around and stay tuned.

On UFC 101: "I've never seen BJ in this type of shape before ... we're going to see a very interesting fight."

On Affliction/big news: "I'm going out of the country tomorrow. I'm going to be back Thursday. I'm going to have a press conference when I get back on Friday ... we're going to have a laundry list of things to talk about."

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Good stuff Matt

I’m just at a loss for words right now…

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by Kelvin Hunt on Jul 24, 2009 10:41 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Stay tuned. Lots of big news could be coming out in the next 2 weeks.

by SlickRick00 on Jul 24, 2009 11:18 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I know right

It’s like…I was gone all day traveling to pick up my moms….then get home and then I’m like WTF!

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by Kelvin Hunt on Jul 24, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think you can say it’s been a big day.

by Matt Bishop on Jul 24, 2009 11:27 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Yo

How crazy is it that UFC 100 probably did 1.5 million?

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by Kelvin Hunt on Jul 24, 2009 11:30 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Insane, man. In this economy too! That’s what makes it especially amazing. 3 years ago De La Hoya-Mayweather did 2 million buys in a booming economy. I think that over 1.5 million buys in one of the worst economies in American history is even more impressive, personally.

by SlickRick00 on Jul 25, 2009 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Crazy day....

how about a crazy week?? lol no such thing as a slow news in MMA anymore thats for sure

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by ultmma on Jul 24, 2009 11:48 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Word

Welcome to MMA4Real ultmma…

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by Kelvin Hunt on Jul 24, 2009 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

thanks

keep up the good work…keep it real

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by ultmma on Jul 24, 2009 11:59 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

On Franklin/Henderson II: My job is to put on fights the fans want to see, so hang tight, stick around and stay tuned.

That makes me SO happy. F’real, a comment like that tells me that he knows people aren’t digging it, and MIGHT just use some of the freakishly good talent they just picked up.

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by -Neil- on Jul 25, 2009 2:49 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Yo

It also shows without a doubt that Zuffa checks sites like this to gauge interest in certain fights…which is why they announced it so early IMO.

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by Kelvin Hunt on Jul 25, 2009 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wowzer!!

Is this the craziest day in recent mma history or what?? Can’t wait to hear the news from Dana next week….it’s very very exciting times!!

by Raver on Jul 25, 2009 4:47 AM EDT via mobile reply actions   0 recs

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