{"id":176509,"date":"2023-01-04T04:37:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dana-white-needs-to-briefly-step-away-from-ufc-to-raise-awareness-about-domestic-violence\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T04:37:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:37:11","slug":"dana-white-needs-to-briefly-step-away-from-ufc-to-raise-awareness-about-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dana-white-needs-to-briefly-step-away-from-ufc-to-raise-awareness-about-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White needs to briefly step away from UFC to raise awareness about domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UFC president Dana White apologized for slapping his wife during a New Year’s Eve celebration at a club in Mexico. (Photo by Cooper Neill\/Zuffa LLC)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Dana White’s life changed forever on the night of Dec. 31, 2022, when he decided to slap his wife, Anne, in the face while the couple was in Mexico celebrating New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n

Of all the good White has done in this world \u2014 championing numerous charitable causes, creating thousands of jobs, privately going out of his way to help scores of needy, ill and down-on-their-luck people \u2014 he undid a lot of it when he chose to slap back after his wife first slapped him.<\/p>\n

The two words no man ever wants to have attached to his name \u2014 domestic abuser \u2014 will follow him forever. It will be in the untold biographies that will be written about him eventually. He’ll be taunted on social media for the rest of his days because of it. It will be in news articles and on Wikipedia and he’ll lose the respect of a lot of those who once were his fans and who looked up to him in building the UFC into a global sports powerhouse.<\/p>\n

He’s been married to Anne White for 30 years and has known her for more than 40. And even White knows that he was wrong.<\/p>\n

In a public apology to TMZ on Monday, White accepted responsibility for his actions, which is the least he could do.<\/p>\n

“This is one of those situations that’s horrible,” he said. “I’m embarrassed.”<\/p>\n

He ought to be embarrassed. It’s a despicable act. And there is no excuse for it. The grainy video shows White holding his wife’s left wrist when she slaps him with her right hand on the left side of his face. He responds by slapping her with a right.<\/p>\n

Domestic violence is a scourge in this world. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, nearly 20 people per minute are abused by an intimate partner in the US Stunningly, one in four women and one in seven men have been victims of severe domestic violence. Domestic violence hotlines receive more than 20,000 calls in a typical day.<\/p>\n

Anne White released a statement in which she said the behavior was “out of character” for her husband.<\/p>\n