{"id":278720,"date":"2018-06-17T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=278720"},"modified":"2018-06-17T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T12:14:18","slug":"video-dana-white-tries-his-hand-at-pro-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-dana-white-tries-his-hand-at-pro-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Dana White tries his hand at pro wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a> President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@danawhite<\/a>, Derrick King &amp; Matt Serra pick up the win with a little help from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryLawler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JerryLawler<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rweCZkwfga\">pic.twitter.com\/rweCZkwfga<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grind City Media (@grindcitymedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grindcitymedia\/status\/1007773336703729665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>UFC President Dana White has given a few pro wrestlers the opportunity to test themselves in the Octagon, most notably CM Punk and Brock Lesnar. On Friday, the UFC boss flipped the script, and tried his hand at professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>White appeared in the ring with former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra, and pro wrestlers Derrick King, and Jerry Lawler. To be frank, he didn&#8217;t really do a whole lot, other than attempting to shake Maria Starr off his back, but the UFC president&#8217;s pro wrestling debut is definitely worth a watch all the same.<\/p>\n<p>See it in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>White, of course, is not the only member of the UFC family to move to pro wrestling of late. UFC interim welterweight champion Colby Covington has also been involved in the pro wrestling world recently, and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/colby-covington\/exclusive-colby-covington-plans-to-become-a-three-sport-champion\/\">hopes to one day win championships in the sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be the first two-sport world champion in poker and fighting, and eventually pro wrestling and WWE,&#8221; Covington said on a recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-82-jimmie-rivera-alexandre-almeida-colby-covington\/\">BJPENN.COM Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/ronda-rousey\/\">Ronda Rousey<\/a>, who has been thrilling fans in the WWE ring.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Dana White is cut out for pro wrestling?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/15\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@ufc President @danawhite, Derrick King &amp; Matt Serra pick up the win with a little help from @JerryLawler pic.twitter.com\/rweCZkwfga &mdash; Grind City Media (@grindcitymedia) June 15, 2018 UFC President Dana White has given a few pro wrestlers the opportunity to test themselves in the Octagon, most notably CM Punk and Brock Lesnar. On Friday, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":278722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO | Dana White tries his hand at pro wrestling | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC President Dana White found some time in his busy schedule to try his hand at pro wrestling. 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