After the UFC’s historic $4 billion sale to WME-IMG was announced, Dana White did something he never thought he would do. No, he didn’t take the check from his reported nine percent stake and blow it all on shoes. From the way he’s described it, he went into a bit of a Bill-Murray-in-“Stripes” mode – you know, at the beginning, when “depression set in.” White, the UFC’s president who will remain with the company in that role even though his friends Lorenzo Fertitta and Frank Fertitta III are leaving their gigs post-sale, on Tuesday told “The Jim Rome Show” he went into a bit of a depression thinking about moving out without the Fertittas by his side. “I’m not kidding: I was in a hotel room for two days – didn’t sleep, didn’t eat,” White told Rome. “Lorenzo actually got me out of the hotel room. I had to come down and address our employees

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Dana White talks about how the UFC sale freaked him out enough to hole up in a hotel room – MMA Junkie

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