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# Is fighting in our DNA?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/is-fighting-in-our-dna/
- Published: 2012-01-26T20:48:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:27:14.000Z
- Description: In a long NYT profile of the precipitous rise of UFC as a national pastime, Dana White, one of UFC’s owners had some choice words on what makes the bloodsport so popular: Unlike a double-play ball or a pass-interference penalty, a fist to the face requires no further explanation for a foreign audien
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

In a long [NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/sports/ultimate-fighting-championship-comes-of-age-financially.html?pagewanted=1&%5Fr=1&hp&ref=killscreen.com) profile of the precipitous rise of UFC as a national pastime, Dana White, one of UFC’s owners had some choice words on what makes the bloodsport so popular:

> Unlike a double-play ball or a pass-interference penalty, a fist to the face requires no further explanation for a foreign audience, and that leads to the other article of faith in the U.F.C. creed: “Fighting is in our DNA,” White said of the human species, repeating what for him is almost a ritual incantation. “We get it, and we like it. It doesn’t have to be explained to us.  
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> “This is what I believe to be true though I can’t prove it. Before any guy ever threw a ball through a circle or hit a ball with a stick, someone hit somebody else with a punch and whoever was standing around ran over to watch it.  
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> I believe fighting was the first sport on earth, and it’ll be the last sport on earth. It works everywhere, and we’re going to take it everywhere.”

He should go to [EVO](http://evo2k.com/?ref=killscreen.com).

*\-Jamin Warren*

\[[via](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/sports/ultimate-fighting-championship-comes-of-age-financially.html?pagewanted=1&%5Fr=1&hp&ref=killscreen.com)\]