As Dana White strikes ahead together with his enterprise into boxing subsequent 12 months, he’s eager to dispute what he sees because the ‘fable’ of a chasm-like distinction in fee fashions between that sport and blended martial arts.
There’s little denying that boxing is in a bountiful section in the meanwhile, a lot (or most) of which is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Common Leisure Authority which has seen a cavalcade of excessive profile fights going down within the Center East and, extra lately, London as fight sports activities benefactor Turki Alalshikh continues to bankroll boxing.
The UFC’s fee mannequin has come into query in latest months, significantly after former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou left the organisation a few years in the past upon the expiration of his contract — after which he signed an enormous cash cope with the PFL, in addition to taking over two excessive profile boxing fights towards Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
However talking to the media, together with The Mac Life, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, White was fairly to dispute claims that boxing is on one other monetary stage to the UFC.
“That’s not essentially true,” White stated, addressing a query from reporter Kevin Iole as famous by MMA Fighting.
“That’s the bullshit publicly that individuals consider, however that’s not the reality. Complete bullsh*t. Complete bullsh*t,” he added.
“That’s that entire fable that makes everyone go, ‘Oh, let’s f*cking go to boxing!’ and all this bullshit. Boxing don’t work. Boxing doesn’t work. What makes it work? You want a Saudi f*cking trillionaire to make f*cking fights. And even Saudi trillionaires get uninterested in the f*cking bullshit. It’s all a f*cking fable. It’s all a fable. “Like the entire assertion you simply made is totally positively not true. It’s these sorts of f*cking statements and people kind of quotes by the media that makes all this shit. All these fights are occurring, it takes a Saudi f*cking trillionaire. Each f*cking man that tries to do the boxing factor, all of them find yourself dropping shit-loads of f*cking cash. The mannequin doesn’t work. A Saudi limitless sum of money pops up and that’s what makes these fights occur, and even guys with that sort of cash get f*cking uninterested in the bullshit.”
White additionally disputed claims that Ngannou made extra financial institution in his two boxing fights — the reported determine was round $30 million — than he was provided to increase his UFC deal — which was reported within the media as $8 million.
“I do know all of the sh*t that you just individuals don’t know, and I don’t care what everyone says,” the UFC boss stated. “It doesn’t matter to me. However that’s a truth. He was provided more cash, as a result of I do know the actual numbers.”
