DANA WHITE gave a brutal response to working with rivals Bob Arum and Oscar de la Hoya after entering the boxing business.
The TKO group that owns and controls the UFC and WWE announced the launch of their anticipated boxing league alongside Turki Alsheikh.
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UFC boss White and WWE president Nick Khan will work with Saudi supremo Alsheikh in the new boxing venture.
It remains to be seen whether White will do business with promoters like Arum and De La Hoya – who he has criticised in the past.
And he said on the matter: “I mean, let’s hope not! I would never say never but that is not what I plan to do.”
White fell out with De La Hoya after the boxing legend slammed Conor McGregor’s 2017 crossover fight with Floyd Mayweather.
And Arum spent years blasting the sport of MMA during the UFC’s early rise – causing friction with White.
But the UFC boss has praised Arum for his longevity while also speaking positively about Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren before.
Details on TKO’s new boxing venture remain a mystery but White will look to follow the same model that has made the UFC a global powerhouse.
White said after UFC 314: “If you think about the UFC when we bought the company we had three letters, the old octagon and 12 contracts.
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“We had to build the thing from the ground up. I think the sport of boxing is so broken that it needs to be built from the ground up again.
“And that’s what I’m focussed on doing. (Alsheikh’s) got some commitments from the next 18 months with a lot of guys and a lot of fights and a lot of different promoters.
“But I talk a lot about USA Tuesday Night Fights – the best up and coming fighters all fought on that show and then became big pay-per-view stars.
“And it’s the same thing that happened with the UFC. We started on Spike TV, we built stars and they became pay-per-view stars.
“I want to do the same thing with boxing.”
GettyJon Anik, with Turki Alalshikh and Dana White[/caption] Creator – [#item_custom_dc:creator]
