Dana White has veto power on Music: "I've exercised it quite a bit"
by skwirrl on Jan 17, 2009 6:51 PM EST
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From USAtoday - for my friend in the Live chat of UFC 93
Just to prove to you a fighter can't pick WHATEVER he wants and Dana wants music that sounds like pump me up fight music. Personally I'd choose What is Love by Haddaway. I wonder if Dana would shoot me down.
Just proving I didn't make it up that he shoots down musical choices
The house lights darken. The crowd roars in anticipation of the main event. A spotlight picks out a fighter stepping toward the cage. The music starts …
"Do you really want to huurrrt me?" sings Boy George as the ska-pop beat of Culture Club fills the arena.
UFC fighter Rich Franklin says he's crazy enough to be the fighter in that scene.
UFC President Dana White isn't likely to let that happen. "I might not let that one slide by," says White, who has veto power. "I've exercised it quite a bit."
UFC puts a premium on production values, and entrance music is part of it. White was happy to let Dave Kaplan walk out to the light-hearted General Public tune Tenderness at the finale of The Ultimate Fighter season.
"The music that comes out should either be very, very creative… or it better get you hyped up to see a fight," he says.
But White doesn't limit selections to any particular genre. Some modern classical music has made the cut, though White says he'd draw the line at Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting would get White's approval. Candle in the Wind would not.
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Should have vetoed “Back in Black” for Coleman and replaced it with “You Can’t Touch This.”
"BJ on the BE" - Kierkegaard
Did you mean to make this a stand alone post? I don’t see how Blazing Saddles relates to what I posted.
"BJ on the BE" - Kierkegaard
What, because he gassed out in 30 seconds? Ok, fine. I still think “STOP! HAMMER TIME!” for Mark Coleman is the way to go.
"BJ on the BE" - Kierkegaard
I wonder how long until a fighter RickRolls the audience.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by Scott C. Broussard on Jan 17, 2009 8:03 PM EST reply actions
I've been waiting for this a long time
Even more so after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Rickroll from the float W/Rick Astley lipsynching
Gimme 1 Round!
Brock Lesnar should come out to Rob Zombie’s ‘Superbeast’, not fucking ‘Shout At The Devil’. That shit might have rocked the Dakotas when you were in high school, Brock, but times have changed.
by Derek Suboticki on Jan 18, 2009 1:32 AM EST reply actions
When did Brock come out the Metallica?
He’s been coming out toe Shout at the Devil since he debuted, and he did in his last appearance in Minnesota’s Target Center.
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"And many men have eaten it." -- Goldy
by thetakeover on Jan 18, 2009 10:50 PM EST up reply actions
Or that goddamned Noah’s Ark song my supposedly secular public elementary school made me sing. There’s gonna be a floody floody
by Derek Suboticki on Jan 18, 2009 3:45 PM EST up reply actions
I doubt anyone would accuse you of making this up.
I was under the impression this was common knowledge.
Yeah, I don’t know what skwirrl is off on. I disagreed with him that the fighters don’t get a say in their music and that its all crappy nu-metal shit, but I never said they don’t override the fighters in a fair number of cases.
by Michaelthebox on Jan 18, 2009 5:54 AM EST up reply actions
Ive always thought ......
Strangle hold by Ted Nugent was the Awesome walk out music
YAMATO DAMASHII
Hey skwirrl, your original statement that everybody disagreed with:
Its rare when they let a fighter pick his own music. Monson and Diamond were exceptions to the rule
Exercised veto power quite a bit /= rare when they let a fighter pick his own music.
The Uber vets get whatever they want
Dana isn’t gonna tell Wand or Crocop they can’t come out to songs they’ve come out to for years no matter how ridiculous they are to his mind.
But are you telling me you really believe Dana is gonna let some UFC noob that nobody knows come out to Ricco Suave if he wants to?
Gimme 1 Round!
Actually he might let somebody come out to Ricco Suave
That would be pretty funny if like Baroni came out to that.
But my point being something stupid or if somebody wanted to come out to Chocolate Rain and you’re a dude with no heat in the UFC you’re getting shot down.
Gimme 1 Round!
But are you telling me you really believe Dana is gonna let some UFC noob that nobody knows come out to Ricco Suave if he wants to?
No. Nobody on here is arguing that. Why are you arguing a point that nobody disagrees with? The only thing people disagreed with was the original statement I quoted. And that is a far cry different from what you’re arguing now.
by Michaelthebox on Jan 18, 2009 3:56 PM EST up reply actions
What i'm arguing here is my point
fighters don’t have complete control over what they come out to. And as to why I was arguing that, when they don’t make the call something horrible like Saliva or Linkin Park gets played.
Gimme 1 Round!
I don’t know if you can always blame that on the UFC, that music is very popular with people of a certain demgraphic and a lot of the fighters also fall into that demographic. Don’t assume that just because a fighter comes out to Linkin Park that it’s Dana White’s fault.
Fair enough
Maybe its just the fact that I can’t stand hearing every fighter come out to the same friggin Linkin Park or Saliva making the band rock crap. When Hellboy came out to Slayer during DREAM 3 I was fuckin stoked. When King Mo came out to Act A Azz its ghetto but its original. (Then of course he came out to music written specially for him at the last Sengoku).
Its just me I like some personality in a fighters entrance music choice, for instance I have zero interest in TUF whatsoever but Kaplan cracked me up coming out to Tenderness, not the usual canned crap. But I guess you’re right. Alot of people honestly do get fired up for fights listening to that.
Gimme 1 Round!
I try not to pass judgement on anyone’s musical taste but then I grew up on hair metal (probably the only guy on the site that saw Whitesnake in concert….. twice).
hair metal produced a band with 7 singles on 1 album
and a drummer that played them with 1 arm. How can you beat that? Also somebody coming out to Pour Some Sugar On Me would be hilarious
Gimme 1 Round!
I saw them when the drummer had two arms.
by who me on Jan 19, 2009 1:29 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Awesome.
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by Richard Wade on Jan 19, 2009 4:41 PM EST up reply actions
The fighters pick their own music but obviously the UFC has to approve it, (particularly if it is going to be broadcast on a show). There is a huge difference in telling a fighter to go pick a different song and not letting them pick their music though.
good point
you got me there. They can go pick again after getting shotdown however many times.
Gimme 1 Round!
Something I found interesting
In the WEC when Torres fought Tapia they both came out live to Mariachi music. During the re – run a week later the editor’s had overdubbed some cheesy rock for their entrances. I don’t know if has something to do with play rights or what but I really liked the Mariachi music and I was disappointed with the overdub for the re-broadcast.
"Stop smiling you are about to be punched in the face !"
It’s a money issue. It costs a lot more to play the music on replays and on dvd than it does to air them during a live show. This is why unleashed and all UFC dvds have new music/no entrances, and why The Wonder Years isn’t out on DVD.
by Phildo on Jan 18, 2009 5:54 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah they have to pay insane copyright right fees
to put the music onto a replayed broadcast or onto the DVDs
Gimme 1 Round!
Yep, same reason it took forever for The State to come out on DVD.
by Chris Nelson on Jan 18, 2009 9:46 PM EST up reply actions
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