UFC CEO Dana White has been vocal about UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones being the best pound for pound fighter the UFC has ever had, but recently he named four fighters which would make up his Mount Rushmore.
“You’ve got to go with Jon Jones. You have to go with Ronda Rousey – women would not be fighting if it wasn’t for her,” White told ESPN’s First Take. “You would have to put GSP [Georges St-Pierre] in there and absolutely, positively Conor McGregor. He elevated and changed the game globally.”
But this is a very different list than he's given in the past.
When asked the same question in 2020 he named Jones plus three different fighters.
“If you’re talking about a Mount Rushmore where the heads are carved in stone forever, you have to go Royce Gracie. No-brainer, have to do that Amanda Nunes. Has to be Amanda Nunes, greatest female fighter ever," he said on The Schmozone Podcast in June 2020.
He continued, “I would have to go with a Jon Jones. The guy’s never been beat, and what’s more amazing about him going undefeated – which is incredibly amazing because very few people do it in the sport – is the things that he’s done to himself outside of the octagon, and he still hasn’t been beat."
He may have changed his names over time but one thing remains the same, Jones is always at the top of the list for White.