5 times that UFC President Dana White absolutely owned media personnel

#4. Dana White delivers a vicious tirade at Loretta Hunt

Dana White lashed out at Loretta Hunt following a controversial article in 2009

Arguably Dana White’s most infamous rant at a member of the media came back in 2009. White lashed out at Sherdog.com reporter Loretta Hunt following an article on the UFC’s treatment of the media.

According to Hunt, the UFC had stripped a number of fighters’ managers and agents of their backstage credentials. Supposedly this was done in a “campaign to separate the fighters from their business representatives”.

To say White was furious with this accusation would be an absolute understatement. In a profanity-laced tirade that instantly caused controversy, the UFC president lashed out angrily.

He labeled Hunt a “f*cking b*tch” and a “moron”, and claimed the report was an “absolutely f*cking retarded story” that wasn’t true. He also hit out at an anonymous source in the article, essentially because they hadn’t put their name to their words.

The rant was so incendiary that it’s still spoken about years later, with Hunt herself tweeting about it on its ten-year anniversary in 2019.

A decade ago today, @UFC president Dana White called me a "stupid fucking bitch" and my sources "f------" on a vlog the UFC proudly posted. It was in response to this article...https://t.co/5uLTSi1nM3

— Loretta Hunt (@byLorettaHunt) April 1, 2019

#3. Dana White flips at CagePotato.com’s Ben Goldstein over Playboy photos

Dana White went on the offensive when Arianny Celeste's Playboy photos were leaked online

When UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste was confirmed to be posing for Playboy magazine in 2010, MMA fans across the globe were excited. When the magazine hit stores, Celeste’s name became one of the most heavily trending topics on Google.

However, MMA website CagePotato.com decided to take things a step too far – and posted Celeste’s Playboy photos for the world to see.

Celeste herself was naturally furious about the photos being leaked online in this manner. She reacted angrily on Twitter – threatening that lawyers representing both the UFC and Playboy would be getting involved in the matter.

That was enough for the website to quickly remove the photos, obviously fearing an expensive lawsuit. But UFC president Dana White apparently wasn’t done there.

According to CagePotato’s Ben Goldstein, White contacted him via a phonecall and launched into an abrasive rant, labeling him a “scumbag” and promising to “f*ck (him) up worse than (he’d) ever been f*cked before.”

In the end, CagePotato didn’t seem to suffer any reprisals from the incident – but it stands as one of Dana White’s more memorable spats with the media.