Dana White and Michael Jordan (Getty Images)
When the list of the greatest athlete is made a name is always found on the absolute top. The name is of none other than of basketball great Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan is often regarded as the greatest athlete to grace the basketball court. His sheer competitiveness and ability to be clutch and take the game away for his team had made him an absolute fan favorite. He won multiple three-peats in his career.
Seems like Jordan’s aura is very much alive as UFC president Dana White was spotted on a podcast heaping praise on the ball legend in an interview.
Dana White loves Michael Jordan
Dana White one of the many Michael Jordan admirers in the world and in the sports community. In a recent interview he said,
Michael Jordan I don’t ever want to meet him. Don’t ever want to talk to him. I love Michael Jordan. Just all the things that I hear about Michael Jordan. Even the bad stuff I hear about Michael Jordan I love.
Dana White mentioned Michael Jordan when talking about having a killer instinct. He loves everything about the basketball legend and would not love to meet as White must be thinking that somethings should be left to imagination. Michael Jordan last won a title in 1998 with the Chicago Bulls in the NBA. It was around the same time when Dana White bought the UFC back in the 1990s.
Michael Jordan inspired an entire generation and continues to do so in the current era too. Jordan’s will live on till the sport of basketball survives. He’s one of the very few to score 30000 points in the NBA. Unsurprisingly another maverick in Dana White takes heavy inspiration from the basketball legend who retired two decades ago.
It’s quite evident that White has taken inspiration from the basketball legend to build his multi-billion dollar MMA organization. There’s something about Jordan, who holds a massive net worth of over a billion dollars, that inspires winners from all over the world. It’ll be interesting to see if Michael Jordan is ever spotted in a UFC event or not. If Jordan is to ever grace a UFC event it’ll send the MMA world into a frenzy on social media platforms.
