Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a longtime friend of President-elect Donald Trump, is joining the board of Facebook parent M

UFC's Dana White joins Meta's board weeks before Trump takes office

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2025-01-07 02:30:08

Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a longtime friend of President-elect Donald Trump, is joining the board of Facebook parent Meta two weeks before the new Trump administration begins.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had a particularly tense relationship with Trump during the president-elect's first term in office, said in a Facebook post Monday that White has built the UFC "into one of the most valuable, fastest growing, and most popular sports enterprises in the world."

"I've admired him as an entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand," Zuckerberg said in the post.

Zuckerberg has been practicing mixed martial arts in recent years and has attended several UFC events, underscoring his enthusiasm for the combat sport.

In 2023, Zuckerberg tore his ACL during a sparring session as part of training for a competitive MMA fight. That year, Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk traded verbal barbs and indicated that they were willing to fight each other in a match that White would help produce. But Zuckerberg later said the fight was off because Musk wasn't "serious."