Busted Boston Mob Boss Drove UFC's Dana White Out of Town
by Nate Wilcox on Jun 23, 2011 10:56 AM EDT
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UFC President Dana White often tells reporters the story of being driven out of Boston by gangsters who wanted extortion payments from his boxing gym. Well Dana can rest easy because the gang boss in question, Boston's legendary Whitey Bulger, has been busted from CBS News:
Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger was captured near Los Angeles after spending the last 16 years on the run during an epic manhunt that served as a major embarrassment to the FBI and made the fugitive a global sensation as he constantly found a way to elude authorities.
The FBI finally caught the 81-year-old Bulger Wednesday at a residence in Santa Monica along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig just days after the government launched a new publicity campaign to locate the fugitive mobster, said Steven Martinez, FBI's assistant director in charge in Los Angeles.
USA TODAY's Sergio Non compiles some of Whites tales about Bulger:
Before moving back to Las Vegas in the early 1990s, UFC President Dana White managed a boxing gym in South Boston. But a run-in with the Bulger enterprise convinced him to leave New England, White said.
He's told the story to multiple news outlets, including Men's Fitness:
..."Whitey Bulger had a bunch of goons working under him and they wanted $2,500. At the time, that might as well have been $25,000 to me. I didn't have it, so I went back to Vegas."
Who knows, man?" White told Peace Magazine. "I wonder if Whitey's still alive."
Bulger, and his knack for corrupting Boston and federal authorities, was the real life inspiration for Martin Scorsese's The Departed with Matt Damon and Leonard Di Caprio.
More from CBS News:
Prosecutors said he went on the run after being warned by John Connolly Jr., an FBI agent who had made Bulger an FBI informant 20 years earlier. Connolly was convicted of racketeering in May 2002 for protecting Bulger and his cohort, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, also an FBI informant.
Bulger was a top-echelon FBI informant., who provided the Boston FBI with information on his gang's main rival, the New England Mob, in an era when bringing down the Mafia was one of the FBI's top national priorities.
But the Boston FBI office was sharply criticized when the extent of Bulger's alleged crimes and his cozy relationship with the FBI became public in the late 1990s.
Bulger's younger brother was also a political power in Boston. From Wikipedia:
Another younger brother, William Bulger, was formerly a popular and influential leader of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. In a long political career, he rose to become President of the Massachusetts State Senate. After his retirement he was appointed President of the University of Massachusetts. In his 2002 testimony before the United States Congress, William Bulger was grilled by legislators from both parties. When asked what he thought his brother did for a living, Senator Bulger responded: "I had the feeling that he was in the business of gaming and... or whatever. It was vague to me, illegal but I didn't... not all that violent... For a long while he had some regular jobs but ultimately it was clear that he was not, he wasn't doing what I'd like him to do. Let's just say I was naive in retrospect".
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Crazy they finally got the guy.....
People here in Boston cant believe it…. half the people consider him like an urban legend and cheer him on for evading the cops…. the other half are glad hes been caught.
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Thank you Boston Mob
If it wasn’t for them UFC might not be where it is today because Dana White would’ve been in Boston still. So thank you Boston Mob.
Correction:
Matt Damon and Leonard Di Caprio
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by inadvertentgroinstrike on Jun 23, 2011 11:05 AM EDT reply actions
Chinese
And yes they were. Infernal Affairs was a great trilogy but I found it hard to follow at times. Escpecially the third one.
by Holls Hoyce on Jun 23, 2011 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Wasn't that one...
A prequel?
I love me a good foreign movie but that’s a huge red flag for me.
by Sergio Hernandez on Jun 23, 2011 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
That was Part 2
That was great at tying up all the characters’ stories but part 3 just went a little wacko towards the end. Maybe a translation issue.
by Holls Hoyce on Jun 23, 2011 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Man, that's what...
Sucks about getting bootleg HK DVDs off ebay or whatever.
I’ve had the same copy of Battle Royale for years but apparently, there was a limited edition blu-ray (that costs like $100 now) with a new translation and they say it’s near perfect.
by Sergio Hernandez on Jun 23, 2011 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Hong Kong, not Japan.
it consolidated elements of the first two original films, i think.
by Victor Rodriguez on Jun 23, 2011 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
"The Departed" was a remake of the HongKong movie Infernal Affairs
by E1GUAPO on Jun 23, 2011 11:07 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I was just about to come here to say that
Not Kid Nates fault, because other people (news sources) are saying it too(makes it relate better to pop culture i suppose). But it’s def a remake of a movie
by silent.bisonte33 on Jun 23, 2011 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions
that's just the plot
the character details and Boston setting are inspired by Bulger
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by Nate Wilcox on Jun 23, 2011 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
True
But Jack Nicholson’s character was based on Bulger.
by Jamie Penick on Jun 23, 2011 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This. It IS a...
Remake but the characters are based off Bulger’s story.
by Sergio Hernandez on Jun 23, 2011 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, I mean they...
Patterned the Nicholson’s character more around Bulger than they did the original character in Infernal.
It’s like if someone remade Oldboy but made the main character like John Phillips.
by Sergio Hernandez on Jun 23, 2011 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions
So fucking glad the planned remake of Oldboy seems to have died. Will Smith playing Oh Dae Su is just horrible casting. If it’s going to be remade, Daniel Day Lewis or Gary Oldman are the only 2 actors I would accept in the role.
However, I still think the remake of Lady Vengeance is going to happen.
by SplitBreast on Jun 23, 2011 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
Eh. I've gotten...
Too old to care about remakes.
I’ll just sit at home and enjoy the original instead of huffing and puffing on AICN.
But yeah, Will Smith would have been terrible.
by Sergio Hernandez on Jun 23, 2011 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions
I actually like a lot of remakes and even the bad ones get us good dvd and blu-ray releases of the originals and draw attention to the original directors, actors, and in the case of Let Me In, the author but this one was just lame.
by SplitBreast on Jun 23, 2011 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I liked Let Me In a lot
and heard that it really didn’t stray much from the original Let the Right One In.
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by SentientAndroid on Jun 23, 2011 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Let me in was a solid adaptation of the foreign film. I guess my only real complaints of the film were the cheesy CGI and the kids delivering their lines rapid fire. The car crash scene was an awesome cinematic achievement and I have been recommending the film to my friends based on that scene. Overall I liked the American version. Not as much as the original but it was still a nice entry into that universe.
by flickgrifter on Jun 23, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
i never heard that Will Smith deal...
i’m glad it died an ignoble death. i still wonder if there’s ever going to be an American Casshern remake
by Victor Rodriguez on Jun 23, 2011 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
So pretty...
To look at but plot is eh. But I guess that’s what you get when a fashion photographer directs a movie.
by Sergio Hernandez on Jun 23, 2011 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
didn't know that was his background. i still like the themes they touched.
still found it lacking. Goemon looks interesting, though.
by Victor Rodriguez on Jun 23, 2011 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
i see the dudes social security number lol
by Papercut Elbow on Jun 23, 2011 11:26 AM EDT reply actions
Good luck tryna use it.
You’ll end up on some F.B.I. list.
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by RolloTomasi on Jun 23, 2011 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Shit's crazy yo.
Learn JiuJitsu.
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Who let this IRA motherfucker in my bar?
Only kidding. How’s your mother?
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by Matthew Roth on Jun 23, 2011 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Whatddya on yer period or somethin'?
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by RolloTomasi on Jun 23, 2011 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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That’s almost a guy you can’t hit.
Learn JiuJitsu.
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by RolloTomasi on Jun 23, 2011 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Glad they got him. If you look up his crimes you’ll see he was scum.
And not complaining that you posted this – I like me my crime news – but man, this is really stretching the definition of MMA news. Also, didn’t someone once go around Boston to do a piece on Dana and couldn’t really confirm anything he had said about his past? That there is no record of him boxing as he used to claim he did in his youth? I’m not saying Dana’s lying about the mob story but it is Dana and he is prone to exaggerate in an effort to tell a good story.
I have seen those stories
His whole “boxing” thing was pretty much made up. I was shocked to hear he made up stories to seem cool.
BOOSH
I think the exaggeration was "boxing gym."
I remember hearing that it was more of just a regular gym where White taught boxercise.
Which is weird.....
…..Because they arrested a black man in a horrible case of mistaken identity.
So close and yet so far. The story of my sports fandom.
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by SentientAndroid on Jun 24, 2011 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions
The Departed was a remake of Infernal Affairs
The character Jack Nicholson played was changed to resemble Whitey Bulger. The same character in the original was not based on Bulger, but was a completely fictional character played by Tony Leung.
It was a combination of the the two stories – Infernal Affairs and The Winter Hill Mob. Events from Whitey Bulger’s biography where incorporated into his life: some of the murders were based on murders he was linked to. Ray Winstone’s character “Frenchy” was based on Bulger’s right hand man The Rifleman Flemmi. The story even had an FBI-insider protecting Bulger as in real life. It wasn’t really a remake of Internal Affairs as much as inspired by Internal Affairs. Similar to how the Magnificent Seven and A Fist Full of Dollars are inspired by Kurosawas movies but aren’t really remakes. Or how Kurosawa’s Ran was based on and inspired by King Lear but isn’t King Lear.
by John Nash on Jun 23, 2011 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
A Fistful of Dollars was almost an exact remake though. Kurosawa won a lawsuit that entitled him to some of the profits because they were so similar and Leone never credited him.
And he deserved it. It cribbed a huge portion of his script. And The Departed credits the Infernal Affairs writers. My point is that it is along the lines of a Magnificent Seven and Battle Beyond the Stars (Seven Samurai), Fist Full of Dollars and Last Man Standing (Yojimbo), Outland (High Noon), Pale Rider and Soldier (Shane), Disturbia (Rear Window), Colorado Territory (High Sierra) Miller’s Crossing (The Glass Key) You Got Mail (Little Shop Around the Corner) Blowout (Blowup) etc. Sure it might be purely semantics but I see them as less remakes than retellings. Inspired by, influenced by the original but with enough twist and originality to make it a completely different movie. I also prefer this greatly, since the new films don’t end up hijacking the originals title and supplant it with new generations. Nothing depresses me more than the thought that young kids today are renting the newer versions of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” or “Dawn of the Dead” and thinking they are going to watch a classic.
It's a...
Remake.
Not a straight remake because no one in the US is going to give a shit about Chinese Triads so they “twist” it by partly basing it on Bulger.
by Sergio Hernandez on Jun 23, 2011 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
DO YOU WANNA BE A CAWP OR PRETEND TO BE A CAWP
I’M THE GUY WHO DOES HIS JOB, YOU MUST BE THE OTHER GUY.
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Your fuckin' family's dug into the Southie projects like ticks.
Three-decker men at best. You, however, grew up on the North Shore, huh? Well, la-di-fuckin’-da. You were kind of a double kid, I bet, right? Huh? One kid with your old man, one kid with your mother. You’re upper-middle class during the weeks, then you’re droppin’ your "R"s and you’re hangin’ in the big, bad Southie projects with your daddy, the fuckin’ donkey on the weekends. I got that right?
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by Matthew Roth on Jun 23, 2011 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Yup. You have different accents?
You did, didn’t you? You little fuckin’ snake. You were like different people.
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by Matthew Roth on Jun 23, 2011 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thank you, Mahky Mahk.
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by Richard Wade on Jun 23, 2011 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
I know what you are and I know what you are not.
I’m the best friend you have on the face of this earth, and I’m gonna help you understand something, you punk. You’re no fuckin’ cop!
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by Matthew Roth on Jun 23, 2011 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions
What's the matter, smartass, you don't know any fuckin' Shakespeare?
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by Matthew Roth on Jun 23, 2011 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions
WHERE'D YOU FAWKIN' PAHK THA CAH BOO BOO??
Let's get naked and see who's stronger.
by OwMyArm on Jun 23, 2011 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In “Fight!” by Eugene Robinson, he talks with some guys who worked for Bulger. One of them talks about how LDC did some of his prep talking to these guys.
Yes it’s a remake blah blah.
by ihateemo on Jun 23, 2011 1:05 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
That wasn't a joke. Just because you play a tough guy, doesn't mean you are one you lace-curtain, Irish fucking pussy!
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by Matthew Roth on Jun 23, 2011 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Dana to Whitey's Goons: "So here's the thing about cash....."
So close and yet so far. The story of my sports fandom.
Listen. Here's the thing, At the end of the day.
Dana White interviews are a drinking game. Seriously.
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by exsanguinator on Jun 23, 2011 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Had to be the woman who gave him up.
Bet she’s 18 years old. Give her an octagon girl job dana.
I can imagine the conversation
Dana: "You think that I’m some guinea, fresh off the boat, and you can kick me! But I’m too big for that now. I’m sick a’ takin the scrap from you, Whitey. I’m a’ of marching into this goddamn office to kiss your Irish ass. And I’M SICK A’ THE HIGH HAT!
Go Orange(men)!
Where is
Jon Jones when you need him?
Just Breed!
by ScoreCardOTN on Jun 23, 2011 7:03 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Easy with that shit.
High kicks and darce chokes are cool.
But a handgun will fuck your shit up in a heartbeat.
Can’t “tapout” from a headshot.
Learn JiuJitsu.
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