{"id":810784,"date":"2026-07-18T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810784\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:28:19","slug":"nina-marie-daniele-hailed-by-ufc-boss-dana-white-for-building-multiple-mma-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810784\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina-Marie Daniele hailed by UFC boss Dana White for building multiple MMA stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC head honcho Dana White was all praise for Nina-Marie Daniele, citing her contributions to multiple MMA stars&#8217; careers. <\/p>\n<p>Nina-Marie Daniele (aka Nina Drama) is known to have achieved tremendous success in multiple realms over the course of her career as a public personality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s now earned plaudits from one of the most influential personalities in the combat sports world, <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/ufc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC<\/a> CEO and president Dana White.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nina-Marie Daniele has become a prominent part of the UFC promotional machinery<\/p>\n<p>Having etched a name for herself as a professional model in her native, United States of America, Nina-Marie Daniele eventually made an impact as a social media influencer as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old has been associated with the UFC as an on-screen personality, interviewing fighters ahead of marquee events and also creating social media content with some of the biggest names in MMA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many have expressed their respect for the model and influencer for devoting a considerable amount of time and energy to MMA content creation.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s known to have gone from a newcomer in the UFC promotional sphere in 2022 to becoming a prominent part of the organization here in recent years. Daniele was also present at the UFC&#8217;s latest high-profile event, UFC 329, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dana White lauds Nina-Marie Daniele for providing an impetus to the MMA careers of Merab Dvalishvili, Arman Tsarukyan, Sean Strickland, and more<\/p>\n<p>During a recent conversation with Robbie Fox on the Spinnin Backfist MMA Show, UFC boss and Zuffa Boxing founder Dana White chimed in on the recent UFC 329 event and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American combat sports promoter hailed UFC lightweight Paddy &#8220;The Baddy&#8221; Pimblett as one of the top stars in the UFC today, <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/news\/dana-white-has-revealed-producers-calls-for-paddy-pimblett-to-appear-on-popular-tv-series-mobland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealing an intriguing offer that&#8217;s come the Liverpudlian&#8217;s way<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he named a few more UFC fighters who&#8217;ve established themselves as notable brands in the sport. White stated, &#8220;Top stars? I mean, <a href=\"https:\/\/mmasucka.com\/..\/..\/fighters\/jon-jones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Jones<\/a> is still around. You have (Sean) O&#8217;Malley. Merab (Dvalishvili) has done very well&#8230; Islam (Makhachev), absolutely.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon being asked whether Arman Tsarukyan &#8212; with his extensive social media influencer work alongside Nina-Marie Daniele &#8212; is also on the list of fighters he views as top stars in the UFC right now, White concurred.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC boss said, &#8220;Absolutely. Arman (Tsarukyan) definitely is. I&#8217;ll tell you what &#8212; that guy has done a great job of getting out there and getting himself a lot of attention.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He continued whilst crediting Nina-Marie Daniele for helping build multiple fighters&#8217; brands by boosting their social media presence and reach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White said, &#8220;And, you know, a lot of Nina Drama work. If you look at the people that have been built, you know, it is impossible to deny that Nina Drama built some of these guys &#8212; from Merab to Sean Strickland, Arman, you know. And these guys are smart. They lean into the relationship with her.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, Nina-Marie Daniele, for her part, has faced criticism from certain sections of MMA fans who deem her content to be rather unorthodox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, many of her supporters have time and again come to her defense, citing that she&#8217;s displayed an uncanny ability to present the rough-and-tough UFC stars in a different light, unraveling their funnier and lighter side to the fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch Dana White direct praise at Nina-Marie Daniele below (*comments at the 12:40-minute mark of the video):\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC head honcho Dana White was all praise for Nina-Marie Daniele, citing her contributions to multiple MMA stars&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[15504,49,48,10359,641,21903,638,35696,82,640,250163],"class_list":["post-810784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-arman-tsarukyan","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dana-white","tag-fighting","tag-merab-dvalishvili","tag-mma","tag-sean-strickland","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-329-mcgregor-vs-holloway-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}