{"id":136195,"date":"2025-09-11T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136195\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:01:06","slug":"eddie-hearn-wants-to-take-on-dana-white-as-ufc-head-prepares-full-scale-move-into-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136195\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn wants to &#8216;take on&#8217; Dana White as UFC head prepares full-scale move into boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn addressed UFC CEO Dana White\u2019s recent comments about becoming the \u2018CEO of Boxing\u2019 ahead of Alvarez vs. Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re days away from one of the biggest fights in boxing history as Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford prepare to square off in Las Vegas. The event is co-promoted by Riyadh Season and UFC CEO Dana White, who will launch his full-scale move into the sport this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>White has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-announces-tko-boxing-promotion-alongside-turki-alalshikh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive plans for TKO Boxing<\/a>. He\u2019s been extremely critical of the sport in recent years, calling it \u2018broken\u2019 and needing desperate reform.<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s move into boxing has been well-received by his promotional counterparts, including Eddie Hearn. But while White has been accepted with open arms, Hearn wants to prove that White\u2019s goal to become the \u2018CEO of Boxing\u2019 is a far-fetched journey.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Hearn scoffs at Dana White\u2019s plans to become the \u2018CEO of Boxing\u2019<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kWhm6zC3JY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charlie Parsons<\/a>, Hearn reacted to White\u2019s ambitious goals in promoting boxing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to be the CEO of boxing? They\u2019re trying to get the Muhammad Ali act changed. You\u2019re not going to see me slagging off Dana White,\u201d Hearn said of White. \u201cNot because I don\u2019t want to upset him, because I respect him. The one thing that I would really like, at this point in my career, is to go head-to-head with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo take him on. I want to compete against Dana White, to prove that I\u2019m much better than him as a boxing promoter. So I\u2019m excited for him to come into the space, but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re going to fall out, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompetition is fantastic, but you\u2019re not gonna come into boxing and steamroll the game. It\u2019s just not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearn promotes some of the top boxers in the world; including Anthony Joshua and Conor Benn. He was paramount in securing the highly-anticipated rivalry fight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/chris-eubank-jr\/chris-eubank-jr-vs-conor-benn-grudge-match-announced-for-april-26th-in-london\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">between Chris Eubank Jr. and Benn earlier this year<\/a>, as well as their upcoming rematch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn addressed UFC CEO Dana White\u2019s recent comments about becoming the \u2018CEO of Boxing\u2019 ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,958,9915,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-136195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-dana-white","12":"tag-eddie-hearn","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}