Dana White is trying ahead to the way forward for boxing.
UFC Saudi Arabia has come and gone and kickstarted the brand new partnership between the promotion and the nation. Subsequently, battle followers can anticipate larger and higher issues from future occasions abroad.
Earlier than UFC and Saudi Arabia joined forces, Chairman of Common Leisure, Turki Alashikh, began stepping into the boxing world, making a number of the largest match ups potential. After placing on their first occasion collectively, White has nothing however good issues to say about Turki and is happy about boxing’s future with this involvement.
“I like him. The man has a imaginative and prescient for a sport that’s fully f*cked up,” White advised The Mac Life. “If you happen to have a look at what he’s been in a position to do in a brief period of time, boxing is so damaged and so f*cked up that it takes a man with that type of cash and that type of energy to make this stuff occur. So, I feel it’s gonna be fascinating to see what he accomplishes over the following a number of years.
“You understand me, I don’t kiss anyone’s ass for any f*cking causes in any respect,” he continued. “If I didn’t really feel that means or if I didn’t have this sense about him, I might let and I might be all out on it, however I like this man. I respect him. I like what he has already carried out and I’m really trying ahead to seeing what he’s gonna do sooner or later. He’s coping with a sh*t present of unbelievable proportions, and I like the way in which he’s dealing with it.”
White has by no means been shy to precise his emotions on boxing and the promoters concerned. Oscar De La Hoya is perhaps essentially the most infamous to catch critique from White, however Bob Arum isn’t protected both. Important of White’s dealings prior to now, Arum caught some strays from UFC’s CEO when in comparison with Saudi’s main man.
“It’s gonna take a man like Sheikh Turki to repair it. He’s making the fights that no one could make, and it was a enjoyable battle. It was battle,” White mentioned of boxing and the latest Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk match (watch highlights).
“In COVID, Bob Arum comes out and says, ‘This man, he’s a dumb man, he’s f*cking this and that and every thing else,’ have a look at how lengthy Arum’s been within the sport, proper? Man’s in his f*cking 90s, I respect the truth that he’s nonetheless — I imply, that man flew out to Saudi Arabia, went to England, did all this sh*t, gotta respect that a part of his sport. However he thinks he’s so f*cking good. He thinks he’s so f*cking clever. He’s actually carried out nothing. He’s made a residing for himself on the boxing sport, however on the finish of the day, what does he have? He has f*ckin’ nothing. He’s created nothing. All the time simply stripping cash, by no means invested again into the f*cking sport. You could possibly have f*cking mounted it. You had no f*cking imaginative and prescient for the game. You had nothing. You’re not as good as you assume you’re, Bob Arum.”
