Dana White, Please Learn Something from Your Success

As a woman who is old enough to be your mother, I am asking you to learn from your successes as much as from your failure.

I am sure that you are counting UFC 91 in your success column, although it probably did not meet your expectations as a No. 1 "biggest MMA card of all time," as you intended it to be.

You were correct when you deduced that Brock Lesner could be a money maker for the UFC organization. However after hearing the crowd cheer more for Randy Couture after the fight, did it dawn on you that he might have been the bigger draw? Probably not. Your learning curve is not as renowned as the f-bombs you have become so famous for.

To portray a savvy and successful businessman, you should have learned to modify your language years ago. Regardless of your haughty disdain for your critics, who repeat this over and over, you still refuse to learn. I bet you were some student in high school!

So many worthwhile lessons could be learned from tonight's event.

I believe the Pay Per View crowd was truly ecstatic that so many fights were shown and that they all moved along so smoothly. You should always give the customer a little more than they expect in order to keep them satisfied and coming back for more.

Putting on quality shows is more important to your organization than eliminating all competition. Bet you used to have a shirt that said "Does not play well with others" on it when you were younger.

You do not have to feed your most popular fighters easy fights to protect your investment in them. On the other hand, the chance you just took by matching Randy Couture with Brock Lesner could have cost you to lose a much beloved star. Randy was vastly outweighed which gave Lesner an unfair advantage.

A new weight class for fighters 250 and over needs to be established. It is ludicrous to have a 220 pound fighter in a match with a potential 280 pound like Lesner. I wish he had stepped on a scale before he set foot in the octagon to see how much of a travesty it really was.

Letting irrational fighters with big egos (B.J. Penn) pick and choose which weight class they will fight in and possibly end up with titles in two divisions, will simply disable both divisions, as no fighter can defend two belts simultaneously.

You letting B.J. get in your ear was a big mistake and has been extremely unfair to the Lightweight division. Surely, in retrospect, you can see this is true.

When you do have a fighter who is a good example for the sport (GSP), you should not risk sacrificing him by putting him in a situation like the one with B.J. Killing off the goose stopped the production of the golden eggs.

Georges has plenty of challengers without letting an obsessed headcase take potshots at him. B.J. is not a good representative of the sport. Say what you will of his abilities, but he is a loose cannon and not on board for your agenda, as long as he is pursuing one of his own.

Your dislike of Elite XC and Kimbo Slice have kept you from seeing that you are doing the same thing they did with Brock Lesner, only on a higher level. As a result of his size and the lack of depth in the Heavyweight division, his use to you is extremely limited unless you begin to cross promote.

Apparently you have learned from the excitement generated by a fight between Gina Carano and Christian "Cyborg" Santos, that there is money and potential for women's MMA, even if you stick it in the WEC division of Zuffa promotions. In fact it may give the WEC a tremendous boost.

Well, I have run out of suggestions. I just hope that you are, or will become the type of businessman who learns as much from evaluating his successes as from the failures.

You know, you are the age of my oldest son.