Dana White Says 2017 Is the UFC’s Best Year By a Long Shot

Dana White discussed the UFC’s successful year, saying it’s the company’s best yet by a long shot. You can see higlights of White’s comments below, courtesy of MMAjunkie:

On a return to Montreal with Georges St-Pierre headlining: “It would obviously make sense to go back to Montreal with (St-Pierre). I told some of you guys this yesterday, but (Floyd Mayweather and UFC champ Conor McGregor) had the record there in Canada. We were No. 2 and 3 or something like that. We’re pretty sure that this beat Mayweather and McGregor in Canada tonight. I told some of you yesterday that this would do a million (pay-per-view buys). I was way wrong. It did over a million. I’ll have a definite answer tomorrow, but it’s looking like we destroyed it.”

On UFC 217 being one of the best cards in company history: “…It was one of the best ever – if not the best ever.”

On claims that the company’s PPV buys are down: “Whose indications are that? People who don’t know what the (expletive) they’re talking about. If you don’t know what’s going on in our business, how can you speculate that we’re having a bad year? This is the best year, by a long shot, in the company’s history. Boom. Ronda (Rousey) didn’t fight. Conor didn’t fight in MMA. Jon Jones fought once. And Anderson Silva, Chuck Liddell – the list goes on and on and on. The business is kicking ass. Best year ever, by a long shot.”

On if Mayweather vs. McGregor is included in those estimations: “You can’t take that out; it happened. And if that didn’t happen, Conor would have fought twice this year. You can’t take it out. Who cares if it’s a boxing match? It’s revenue that the company made that we spent four months of our resources promoting.”