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Dana White shared an interesting and funny video of John Oliver on his social media page. In this video, we can see John Oliver come up with Funny new names for Dana White’s “Fight Island”.

Dana White over the past few weeks has been dropping hints and now even gone ahead and confirmed that there is actually a private island that he has taken over to host UFC fights on. He is calling it the ”Fight Island”

This island will solely be meant for conducting international UFC fights. It will make it easier to fly fighters and staff in and out of the island given the current lockdown measures in place. So Dana White on several occasions has spoken about this fight island and how arrangements are already in the process. In a definitive time span, the island will be ready and the UFC will start hosting their events there.

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Dana White just pulled off an 8 day and 3 power-packed events run. He hosted UFC 249 and 2 more fight nights in the span of 8 days. Something that is unheard of in the live sporting field. And to add to this it was all done amidst a global pandemic.

Dana White shares a Jon Oliver Video

Jon Oliver in this video speaks of other promotion companies too that are carrying on the tapping of their events. For example, WWE has gone forward with the tapping of their events without the presence of a live audience. Their competitor AEW also tapped shows at this time.

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He went on and spoke of Dana White’s accomplishment with the 3 successful shows in the span of a week He also added in a clip of Dana White speaking about the fight island and what the fans should be expecting.

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Dana White sharing this clip on Instagram captioned the post “I like John Oliver, I think he’s funny. But this is a perfect example of how you can control the narrative by using selective facts. We did approximately 1,100 tests, only 3 were positive, it was a fighter and his 2 trainers and we had 3 events NOT 1.”

Watch this post to see late-night television host John Oliver deliver a hilarious bit on the name choices Dana White could have gone with to makes things a bit funnier.