Dana White has weighed in on UFC and WWE crossover after the merger between WWE and UFC to form TKO became complete on Tuesday when Endeavor officially acquired WWE. UFC and WWE will operate as separate entities.
While speaking to ESPN, UFC senior executive vice president and chief operating officer Lawrence Epstein noted they want to get to a point where “every UFC fan is a WWE fan and every WWE fan is a UFC fan.”
In this same piece, Epstein also said UFC and WWE holding major events on the same weekend in one city could be a possibility as a package deal.
On Tuesday night, while talking at his DWCS press conference, White was asked about Esptein’s comment about the two fanbases.
“Lawrence, I love you, one of the dumbest statements of all time. I don’t know why he said that. I don’t even know what to say to that. No. There is no…there is some crossover. Some people like WWE, some people like UFC, some people like both. I don’t think there is ever going to be a day where we turn every UFC fan to a WWE fan or every WWE. What’s beautiful about the synergy between these two fanbases is they are very completely opposite. There is very little crossover. And again, maybe he was misquoted. I hope that was the case because I could not disagree with him more.”
Dana White: “There’s very little crossover” between WWE and UFC fan bases. pic.twitter.com/w6JI1SaIxt
— Wrestling News (@WrestlingNewsCo) September 13, 2023
