Konan
05-02-2013, 09:21 AM
UFC President Dana White arrived in Boston some time between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m. on Sunday, slept a couple hours and awoke with the goal of giving back to the city where he'd done a lot of growing up.
Soon after a pair of alleged domestic terrorists bombed the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding hundreds at the finish line of the April 15 race, White pledged his help. But how exactly he would do that, he didn't know.
He still didn't necessarily have a clear idea when he touched down, just hours after the conclusion of UFC 159, other than that he planned to distribute checks from the UFC, FOX and himself to charity and those affected by the tragedy.
"So I started reaching out to personal families that were involved in this thing and started reaching out to the mayor," White told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "The one thing I realized immediately is that people were pretty messed up."
White, who spent his early 20s in South Boston as a boxer and trainer, was deeply rattled when he learned of the bombing during a meeting with executives from UFC parent company Zuffa. Several weeks later, he's still upset by the senseless loss of life and the surreality of seeing his adopted home town attacked.
Soon after a pair of alleged domestic terrorists bombed the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding hundreds at the finish line of the April 15 race, White pledged his help. But how exactly he would do that, he didn't know.
He still didn't necessarily have a clear idea when he touched down, just hours after the conclusion of UFC 159, other than that he planned to distribute checks from the UFC, FOX and himself to charity and those affected by the tragedy.
"So I started reaching out to personal families that were involved in this thing and started reaching out to the mayor," White told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "The one thing I realized immediately is that people were pretty messed up."
White, who spent his early 20s in South Boston as a boxer and trainer, was deeply rattled when he learned of the bombing during a meeting with executives from UFC parent company Zuffa. Several weeks later, he's still upset by the senseless loss of life and the surreality of seeing his adopted home town attacked.