Dana White vows to put on ‘greatest live combat sports event’ at epic new Las Vegas Sphere

Dana White has vowed to put on ‘the greatest show on earth’ by taking UFC to Sphere in Las Vegas.

White has reportedly become obsessed by the new Madison Square Garden-owned venue after seeing footage of U2 live performances from the futuristic site.

The former UFC president is targeting Mexican Independence Day to host an event next year and hopes to be the first combat sports promoter to break into Sphere.

“I will put on the greatest live combat sports event anybody has ever seen at the Sphere in September for Mexican Independence Day,” White said. “I f****** guarantee it. I’m so in on this it’s not even funny.

“If the Sphere is smart, they don’t let anybody go in there until we go in there to do a live event. The first live transmission from there should be us, and that’s why I’m saying September.

“Obviously because I want it for Independence Day, but it’ll take that long for us to really work this thing out and figure it out. Plus, you know I will spend the money to make it right.

But White knows he faces stiff competition from Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions who has pitched the idea of co-promoting with Bob Arum and Eddie Hearn for an event at Sphere during Super Bowl weekend in February.

White sneered at the idea saying: “These boxing guys are calling them up going, ‘Oh, we want to do a fight over there.’ Those f****** guys, they’re not going to spend the money to put a f show on there. Those guys can’t even do f****** replays for Christ’s sake.

“They think they’re going to f put on an event at the Sphere? The Sphere is a whole other level and basically, in my opinion, I don’t run the Sphere and it’s not my company, but it’s so good that for the first at least year, they should do nothing but incredible