{"id":164073,"date":"2025-09-23T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:22:08","slug":"boxing-legend-slams-dana-white-and-tko-over-muhammad-ali-act-change-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164073\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing legend slams Dana White and TKO over Muhammad Ali Act change efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boxing legend, who is a top promoter in the sport today, is taking Dana White and TKO to task.<\/p>\n<p>White has helped the UFC soar to new heights for over two decades and he was recently called upon to promote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/terence-crawford\/terence-crawford-defeats-canelo-alvarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">super fight between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in Las Vegas. White was questioned about the efforts of TKO to amend the Muhammad Ali Act throughout the buildup. Many believe the attempt is being made in order for TKO to enter the boxing space on its own terms at the expense of fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Boy Promotions\u2019 Oscar De La Hoya has called out White and the owners of UFC over the situation when speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o3ezRTOifjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fight Hype<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/boxing\/2025\/09\/22\/boxing-ufc-oscar-de-la-hoya-concerns-tko-dana-white-change-muhammad-ali-act-hurt-boxers-monopoly\/86295896007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in place for a reason,\u201d De La Hoya told Fight Hype. \u201cI\u2019m telling you right now, if they change the Muhammad Ali act, every manager is going to have problems. They\u2019re going to be in trouble because you\u2019re not going to be able to negotiate, or negotiate purses or this and that. You fight for what they pay you, and that\u2019s not a way to do it. That\u2019s not the way to do it. It\u2019s a free negotiation. You have managers for a reason. The fighters should be making the boats of the money. We put our lives on the line. We go up in the ring. Fighters die. For what? To get 10 percent? That\u2019s bullsh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De La Hoya has had his share of issues with White in the past. The two have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/oscar-de-la-hoya\/oscar-de-la-hoya-unloads-on-dana-white-in-heated-rant-when-a-guy-slaps-his-wife-in-public\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded barbs throughout the years<\/a>, and De La Hoya recently slammed White during a post-Crawford vs. Canelo edition of \u201cClap Back Thursday.\u201d De La Hoya criticized White for the undercard he put together as well as Alvarez\u2019s performance during the main event clash with \u201cBud\u201d Crawford. De La Hoya also mocked White for his response to a media member\u2019s question about attempts to amend the Muhammad Ali Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boxing legend, who is a top promoter in the sport today, is taking Dana White and TKO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-164073","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164073","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=164073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}