Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White has issued a press release after a video got here out of him getting bodily together with his spouse Anne White throughout a New Year’s Eve celebration.
The video exhibits White being slapped by his spouse. He then responded by slapping her again. The full battle was caught on digital camera and was rapidly damaged up afterward. The UFC hasn’t issued a press release but, nor has any punishment come down over the incident. The promotion at present has a tv and streaming cope with ESPN, the place it’s certainly one of ESPN+’s hottest content material, and choose playing cards additionally air on ABC.
“Well, I’m in Cabo, Mexico, for the holidays with my family. My wife and I were out Saturday night for New Year’s Eve, and unfortunately, that’s what happened. I’m one of those guys, you’ve heard me say for years, ‘There’s never ever an excuse for a guy to put his hands on a woman,’ and now here I am on TMZ talking about it,” White admitted to TMZ Sports.
“My wife and I have been married for almost 30 years. We’ve known each other since we were 12 years old. We’ve obviously been through some shit together, and we’ve got three kids. This is one of those situations that are horrible. I’m embarrassed. But it’s also one of those situations where right now we’re more concerned with our kids. We have three kids and obviously since the video popped up, we’ve shown the kids the video. We’re more focused on our family right now.”
White is aware of he’ll face backlash for his actions and it’s all deserved.
“People are going to have opinions on this, and most of the people’s opinions are gonna be right, especially in my case, you don’t put your hands on a woman ever. My wife and I obviously love each other and have been together for a very long time. We’ve known each other since we were very little and this is just one of those unfortunate situations.”
White mentioned that “a lot of alcohol” was concerned within the scenario however that it was no excuse.
“I’m literally making no excuses for this at all. It’s never happened before. It’s the first time it ever happened. People are gonna say what they’re gonna say. It just is what it is and whatever people do say it’s deserved. I deserve it. It happened. I don’t know why it happened and my wife and I have apologized to each other, we’ve apologized to our kids.”
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