UFC President Dana White appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last night, with host Jimmy Kimmel wishing him a happy birthday. Kimmel asked, “Is this the happiest birthday yet after making $4 billion?” White: “It doesn’t suck.” Kimmel noted White owned 9% of the UFC so after the sale “now you have $360 million, plus whatever you had before that.” White: “I got a couple of bucks.” Kimmel said, “Will you build a castle?” White: “We’ve been doing this for almost 20 years and I don’t know what else I need.” White said, “This is the honest to God truth. When this deal closed, it bugged me out a little bit. … When you make that kind of money and I’ve been with my partners for 20 years so that’s all going to change. I have new partners now and I kind of Howard Hughes-ed myself up into a hotel room for a couple of days, didn’t sleep or eat. It kind of freaked me out a little bit.” White said of the fighters in the UFC, “I have good relationships with most of the guys. There are some guys I can’t stand.” Kimmel noted, “There are some crazy guys in that league.” Kimmel said White has a five-year deal with the new owners of the UFC and “they want you to stay because otherwise it’s not necessarily worth anything if you’re not there anymore.” White: “I don’t know if that’s true, but that’s nice. … I love what I do for a living and I would have signed a 55-year deal with guys” (“Jimmy Kimmel Live,” ABC, 7/28).
