UFC's Dana White rips 'do-nothing' media attacking him during COVID: My employees had to feed their families

UFC President Dana White sits down with Tucker Carlson to discuss how and why he continued to put on events during the COVID-19 pandemic on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

UFC president Dana White shrugged off the endles barrage of attacks from the media at the height of the COVID pandemic, telling Fox News' Tucker Carlson Monday that his first thoughts were how to keep his business afloat and employees paid so they could support their families.

Calling COVID "the scariest thing in the history of my life" White said the mostly Las Vegas-based UFC had just finished its headquarters building with its "octagon" – and would have been well on its way to creating a scientifically-sterile "bubble" that would have protected UFC spectators and fighters – when  Nevada locked down its businesses.

He said he expressed surprise at the time that Nevada – led by Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak – greatly shut the state's commerce down -- like other governors in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Rhode Island and White's home state of Connecticut did.

"We were literally put in the last nails and screws in this place right when COVID hit. So it couldn't have been more perfect if we're actually allowed to use the arena because they shut Nevada down," White told "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

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"We couldn't even do it in our own facility that we controlled and that we could have created a bubble here. But, you know, the government wouldn't let us."

Instead, White decided to continue to pay his employees despite the artificially-imposed inability to conduct fights and therefore commerce. Mike Tyson offered him the use of an undisclosed island, but White