Popular YouTuber penguinz0, also known as Charlie White, has taken aim at UFC CEO Dana White following a resurfaced interview clip in which White casually recounted scheduling an early C-section for his wife so he would not miss the Chuck Liddell match.
The clip from an old interview has quickly spread across social media and drew widespread criticism. In it, Dana White explains that his son Aidan’s due date fell on the same weekend as the Liddell bout, and that he promptly decided this arrangement would not work.
“My son Aidan, when she was pregnant with him, the due date was the Chuck Liddell match,” White said in the clip. “I said to the doctor, ‘This ain’t going to work. This doesn’t work for me.’ So we scheduled a C-section to take him early.”
When asked by the interviewer if his wife had originally planned to deliver naturally, White confirmed that a natural birth had indeed been the plan before the schedule was rearranged to accommodate the match.
penguinz0 did not hold back in his response to the clip, describing the story as “vile” and arguing that White had deliberately put both his wife and newborn child at unnecessary medical risk for the sake of attending a UFC event.
“He jeopardized the safety and the health of not just his wife but also his baby so that way he could go to the Chuck Liddell match,” the YouTuber said. “That’s deplorable. And they’re talking about it like joking about it, jovial, like it’s not something super serious.”
penguinz0 went on to address those who suggested White may have been exaggerating or joking in the interview, noting that White never walked the story back at any point during the podcast.
“He doesn’t go back and say, ‘Oh, that story I told about making my wife have a C-section to deliver our baby early for the sake of the Chuck Liddell match, so I could still participate. Oh yeah, I made that up,'” the YouTuber pointed out. “As far as I’m aware, this is a very real thing that happened.”
Beyond the birth story itself, penguinz0 argued the incident reflects something deeper about how White sees his own role in the sport.
“I think Dana White is under the impression that people watch the UFC for him,” he said. “Like, I think he believes that he is the UFC, not the athletes.”
The YouTuber suggested that this same mindset helps explain the notoriously low pay many UFC athletes receive.
