Throughout Dana White‘s many years with the company, he has meticulously worked to make his vision of the UFC a reality.
For the most part, that has been a good thing as the UFC has grown from a barely legal sideshow to a mostly mainstream sports organization with a consistently strong fan offering. Unfortunately, the path to realizing this hasn’t been a smooth one.
From sports media titans to politicians to random fans on the internet, White has lashed out at any and all who have doubted, stood in the way of or worked against his dreams. And nobody, not even UFC champions, has been exempt from this treatment.
Whether on a micro level (for example, hurting an event’s bottom line by not accepting a short-notice fight) or a macro level (for example, challenging a UFC contract in court), people who haven’t marched to White’s drum beats have been met with some level of friction, with many of those incidents playing out in the public sphere.
That has made it easy to track which fighters have been on White’s “list” over the years and even easier to figure out who is still there today.
So what names are currently on that ledger? Read on to find out.