LAS VEGAS – Nearly two dozen reporters sat silently around a long conference table as Dana White challenged them. Give me a name of any fighter you think is on steroids, the UFC president spat, and I'll have them drug tested today.

He held his flip phone open in the palm of his hand, ready to dial.

No one said a word as White shot hard glances at the reporters staring at him.

Give me a name, he demanded, and I'll test them today, or don't ever say it to me again. He was yelling, his face reddened, the fury evident. He sounded more like he was looking for a fight than trying to promote one.

"Give me one [expletive] name right now, I'll get them on the phone, and somebody will drive to their [expletive] house today and will test them," White said. "Say it. Say it."

After pausing for a second to silence, he resumed.

"Then don't ever [expletive] say it to me again," he said, defiantly. "You guys like to play these [expletive] games. Let's do it. I'm ready. I'm down. Let's do this right now. Give me one name. Give me 10 names. Give me all the names you want; I'll test all these [expletives] right now."

The reporters remained silent. It's not a reporter's job to make news; it's to report the news. But White was gunning for a fight.

He raved on, often shouting loudly, as he defended his fighters against claims their ranks are full of performance-enhancing drug users and his company against allegations that it turns a blind eye to their usage.

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If you wanted to know Dana White, you needed to be in a conference room at 2960 West Sahara where, for nearly two hours, White put on a show equal to any seen on the famed Las Vegas Strip.

For the first 40 or so minutes, White playfully sparred with the Las Vegas-based reporters who'd come to the UFC headquarters to hear him discuss several upcoming fight cards.

He made plenty of news and explained how the UFC landed Patrick Cummins to replace Rashad Evans in a fight on Feb. 22 against Daniel Cormier at UFC 170.

He noted that the estimate of a four-week rehabilitation that UFC officials initially said Evans would require for a knee injury that forced him out of UFC 170 turned out to be wrong. Evans will need surgery, White said, and will be sidelined far longer than four weeks.

He discussed the long-range implications of UFC Fight Pass, the prospects of a standard UFC uniform, related news that Ian McCall is injured and out of his March 8 match against Brad Pickett and raved about women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.

"She's the hugest superstar," White said of Rousey, who will defend her belt against Sara McMann at UFC 170. "I'm going to go out and say she's the biggest star we've ever had."

White said depending on how the pay-per-view results do on Feb. 22, Rousey, in just her third UFC fight, could break into the company’s top 10 in career earnings.

But then a reporter asked White if a fight between Rousey and Cris "Cyborg" Justino would ever come to fruition and everything changed.

White spent at least the next half hour, perhaps 45 minutes, out of his chair, pacing the room. He shouted so loudly at one point as he discussed Justino and the UFC's efforts to combat performance-enhancing drug usage among its fighters that Ike Lawrence Epstein, working in an office directly above the conference room White was in, raced downstairs to check on White.

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