Dana White comment about Las Vegas hotel rooms challenged
UFC President Dana White recently discussed the success of the Conor McGregor vs Max Holloway 2 fight this weekend at UFC 329. Speaking on a UFC broadcast (on live stream around the time of the UFC 329 press conference), White revealed that a unnamed owner of a soccer apparently told him that there were no hotel rooms available in Vegas around fight night:
“This is the Conor McGregor effect…one of the owners of a soccer team is in town, and he and his wife said, ‘You know what? Let’s go to the fight.’ They said there there’s not a hotel room in the city, you can’t even get hotel rooms. When Conor McGregor fights the tide rises for everybody, not just for the sport, but for the city [as well].”
Dana White Comments Refuted
There have been several reactions to White’s comments online since he made, including F4W’s own Ryan Frederick, who checked the availability of hotel rooms this afternoon, posting the following to X:
“There are 10 MGM properties that I can book a room for tonight right now. And that’s just MGM. When you constantly lie about everything, you become to where nothing you ever say is the truth.“
Frederick would then follow that up by clarifying: “Number is actually 11 MGM properties as some rooms at Park MGM opened up. Bellagio and The Reserve at Park MGM have no availability.”
For clarification, these are comments that White claimed were made to him by a third party, he did not claim during the broadcast that he had researched these himself.
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