Netflix is making a tell-all documentary on UFC CEO Dana White, Page Six reported Tuesday. Right now the headline is the whole story. There’s no release date, no episode count, no confirmed interview list and no word on whether White is cooperating or just bracing for impact. When a project gets labeled a “tell-all,” though, somebody is planning to say something White won’t love.
The platform is the first funny wrinkle. UFC events run almost every week as programming for Paramount+, and that includes UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 14. So the most powerful man in the sport could end up as the star of a show on a different streamer from the one that carries his fights. I’d pay real money to watch the meeting where somebody explains that to the TKO side.
The scale of what White runs is the reason anybody would greenlight this. Cain Velasquez said on the Shawn Ryan Show that he’s watched the UFC turn into a billion-dollar organization under TKO Group Holdings with White at the top. He’d know where it started. Velasquez and Junior dos Santos headlined the UFC’s first event on Fox in 2011, back when network TV still felt like a moonshot for the promotion.
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White’s fingerprints are all over the current fight calendar too, starting with the show that literally carries his name. Josh Hokit earned his contract on Dana White’s Contender Series in August 2025. He went on to stop Max Gimenis and Denzel Freeman, beat Curtis Blaydes by unanimous decision at UFC 327 in April, and then TKO’d Derrick Lewis in Round 2 at UFC White House. Next he gets Ciryl Gane for the heavyweight title at UFC 334. Gane picked up interim gold by stopping Alex Pereira on that same White House card and became the full champion after Tom Aspinall vacated. Hokit has also released a rap song as J-Word that goes after Gane, Jon Jones, Aspinall, Pereira and Ilia Topuria. Any documentary producer who leaves that out should be fired.
A real tell-all will need White’s critics, and he has plenty of them. Big John McCarthy, who hasn’t refereed a UFC event since 2017, told Ariel Helwani the reason was simple: “I went and worked for Bellator, and Dana White was absolutely pissed about that and said, ‘I don’t want him.’” McCarthy also pushed back on White’s account of how officials get picked, saying “They put in names for people they feel comfortable with, which they should be able to do.” Fedor Emelianenko, meanwhile, has never been impressed with White’s business tactics, according to MMA Fighting.
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My take: this works only if Netflix earns that “tell-all” label. I want Big John in the chair, I want somebody to ask Fedor about White, and I want the stuff White would rather keep off camera. If it turns into three hours of White telling us how he built the sport while slow-motion walkouts play behind him, that’s a UFC Embedded episode with a bigger budget. The cleanest test for the producers comes on Nov. 14, when the Contender Series kid fights for the heavyweight belt in the Garden.
