Dana White and Wife, Anne, in Drunken Nightclub Fight on New Year's Eve - TMZ

Dana White Nightclub Fight with Wife connected NYE ... Dana Says, 'There's No Excuse'

1/2/2023 4:24 PM PT

Dana White and his woman got carnal with each different connected New Year's Eve, stunning onlookers successful a crowded Cabo San Lucas nightclub ... an incidental Dana says was, regretfully, fueled by booze.

The UFC honcho and Anne White, who've been joined for 26 years, were celebrating Saturday nighttime with friends successful El Squid Roe ... but things took a crook soon aft they each welcomed successful 2023 astatine midnight.

The mates and their radical were successful a VIP country supra the creation floor, and erstwhile Dana leaned implicit to accidental thing to Anne ... she reacted by slapping him crossed the face. Dana instantly slapped her backmost successful the face, earlier friends jumped successful and pulled them isolated -- and it each played retired successful plain presumption of patrons down below.

Eyewitnesses successful the nine archer TMZ Sports ... Dana and Anne some seemed heavy intoxicated anterior to the violence, and the video seems to carnivore that out, due to the fact that things went from zero to 100 successful an instant -- seemingly for nary reason. Further, we're told the struggle was each implicit successful little than a minute.

We spoke to Dana astir the incident, and helium admits helium and Anne had been drinking heavy -- but rapidly adds that's nary excuse for him getting physical. He told us, "You've heard maine accidental for years, 'There's ne'er ever an excuse for a feline to enactment his hands connected a woman,' and present present I americium connected TMZ talking astir it."

He says he's embarrassed by this "horrible" incident, and helium and Anne person apologized to each other. He says they're "good," but their biggest interest present is for their 3 kids ... with whom they've already discussed the fight.

Meanwhile, Anne tells TMZ Sports ... "Dana and I person been joined for astir 30 years. To accidental this is retired of quality for him is an understatement -- thing similar this has ever happened before. Unfortunately, we were some drinking excessively overmuch connected New Year’s Eve and things got retired of control, connected some sides. We’ve talked this done arsenic a household and apologized to each other. I conscionable anticipation radical volition respect our privateness for the involvement of our kids."