Dana White is severe about transferring into boxing this time.
Over the previous a number of years, the White has made quite a few claims about leaping into the candy science, even selling Zuffa boxing way back to 2017 when Conor McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather. However for as typically as White has declared his “in” on boxing, he’s simply as typically decried the game for being “so damaged that it might’t be mounted.” However earlier this week, White teased one other enterprise into boxing and on Tuesday evening he expounded a bit on the matter.
“I did my first battle in Eire and we’ll begin asserting stuff right here [at the] starting of 2025,” White advised reporters following the newest episode of Contender Sequence.
White is referring to the Callum Walsh vs. Przemyslaw Runowski battle he attended this previous weekend in Dublin, Eire. White and Walsh’s promoter Tom Loefller have a long-standing relationship and the occasion was streamed dwell on UFC Combat Go.
At this level, it’s unclear what White’s foray into boxing will appear to be, and the UFC CEO is unwilling to reveal additional data right now. Given White’s many stops and begins with boxing previously, some are skeptical that this time can be any totally different, however White insists that this time it’s actual.
“Each time I get on the telephone with these guys I am going, ‘Am I out of my f*cking thoughts?’ However I feel that clearly now could be the time or I might have achieved it then,” White mentioned. “I used to be kicking round — I used to be even speaking about Anthony Joshua at one time and stuff like that. I’m glad that I pumped the brakes and we waited. All the pieces is about timing. Is now the time? We’re going to search out out…
“There’s one million explanation why now could be [the time],” White continued. “Should you discover, so far as boxing goes, at the same time as a lot cash as Sheik Turki is throwing into this factor, tv offers aren’t actually plentiful proper now. There’s simply a whole lot of issues that I feel I can try this different folks haven’t achieved but.”
Promotion may be very totally different between boxing and MMA, primarily as a result of Ali Act, which supplies federal oversight and sure protections to fighters that don’t presently lengthen to MMA. However White insists he has a plan for learn how to deal with the totally different promotional elements of issues.
“I’ve a plan. I’m going to implement that plan and we’ll see the way it works,” White mentioned. “We’ll see how this factor works. Folks have been speaking in regards to the demise of boxing for 30 years and we’re nonetheless right here speaking about boxing proper now.
“I’ve all the time had an concept of how I assumed it needs to be achieved. I don’t know if that’s potential, however we’re going to search out out. I’m coming in weapons blazing.”
