Dana White undoubtedly gets a lot of unusual phone calls in his line of work. You never know when the president is going to call, or some bad news is going to be delivered. But the craziest call he’s ever gotten during a fight? You’re never going to guess what it was.
The UFC CEO was on the Candy Funhouse YouTube channel answering fun softball questions when he got real with some family trauma.
“We always see you on your phone during the fights,” the host said. “What is the craziest call you’ve ever gotten during a fight?”
“I think we were in Texas and it was a Cormier fight,” White recalled. “I don’t remember who Cormier was fighting, but my daughter was really young and the dog that we had at the time ripped her ear off. Yeah, during the fight.”
“As you can imagine, my wife was losing her mind and everybody was freaking out,” he continued. “So I ran over and grabbed Dr. [Jeff] Davidson, who’s the UFC doctor from Vegas, and we started making calls. Got a plastic surgeon.”
“Not only did the dog rip her ear off, but it ripped her ear in half too. My wife had to pick up her ear. They had to go to the freaking hospital and have her ear sewn back on. That is definitely the craziest call.”
If White’s memory served him correctly, that would have been UFC 192 in October 2015, where Daniel Cormier won a split decision over Alexander Gustafsson to defend his light heavyweight title. And yes, Dana White was there in the cage to wrap the belt back around DC’s waist, despite everything going on with his daughter back in Vegas.
This story originally appeared on MMA Mania
