It’s been eight days since troubling footage emerged of Dana White slapping his wife at a Mexican nightclub on New Year’s Eve, and pressure has mounted well beyond the MMA community for UFC parent company Endeavor to take action.
On Monday, the California Legislative Women’s Caucus (CLWC) posted online a letter addressed to Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel calling for “the immediate removal” of White as UFC president. To this point, Endeavor has remained silent about White’s domestic violence incident that was caught on video. The political women’s advocacy group of 18 state senators and 33 assemblywomen made clear in the letter just how troubling that is to them.
“Your continued silence speaks volumes,” the letter reads. “As you once wrote: ‘Silence and inaction are not an option.’ … Every day that Mr. White’s actions go unaccounted for, your silence becomes more piercing and troubling.”
