Dana White Talks Giving Opportunities To Fighters, Addresses Zuffa Boxing Criticism From Boxing’s Establishment

“And then I saw Eddie Hearn saying that the belt is cringy and all this stuff. I don’t think anybody looks at Eddie Hearn and says, ‘Oh, this guy’s a visionary.’ The guy’s been in boxing forever. I look at him like most politicians. You’ve done nothing in the sport except stay in the lane, and play by all the rules, and ride right along. You ended up becoming part of the problem, is what happened. And I don’t want to sit here and smash Eddie Hearn or anything else, but Eddie Hearn works for his dad, you know what I mean? He works for dad. And I don’t think he’s come in and ever had any type of vision, whereas we do, and we’re going to change the entire sport.

“And I understand the people who are the status quo in boxing don’t like it, but it doesn’t mean they can’t still do their thing. If your thing is as good as you think it is, and you are as good as you think you are, then do your thing. Good luck to you. I’m going to do my thing, and they’re going to do theirs.”

White later added, “The sport has been out there for over 100 years, and there’s plenty of guys that are involved in the sport. There’s plenty of money in the sport… Eddie Hearn and his dad have a lot of money – not like they can’t compete (financially). They can’t compete because they don’t know how to compete. There’s no vision there. I don’t know how else to explain it other than that.

“Listen, I’m sitting here, my third fight in. I’m either right or I’m wrong – we’ll find out. I keep saying it over and over again – at the end of the year, judge us by what we’ve done this year.”