Wow…Ed Graney of the Las Vegas Review Journal pulls no punches in his editorial about Dana White calling him, among other things, “the white Don King”:

Capitalism is great if you have the juice to make it work. The whole idea about a system characterized by investments and production and pricing of goods and services being determined through competition in a free market. It’s good stuff.

It’s also not that long a jump to dictatorship, which is what happened with the growth of UFC under the leadership of its president, who a friend of mine fittingly described Wednesday as “the white Don King who happens to be bald.”

“Dana White is a complete monster, a controlling guy who wants his hands in everything,” Ortiz said. “He’s a bully. He has always been about the power. He wants everything focused on him. UFC is a great company. They just have a monster running it.”

Two things were inevitable as UFC progressed into this giant of a brand: Its better fighters, its collective faces of the sport, weren’t going to forever accept strict restrictions on their earning potential and possible opponents; and people with more money than God were going to copy the model and form their own MMA companies.

White doesn’t care about either. Nor should he. Like it. Detest it. It’s reality, the result of success he helped construct.

We’ve heard more comparisons to WWE head Vince McMahon than Don King, but in any case the column is a must read…

UFC head White: ‘The white Don King’ @ Las Vegas Review Journal