{"id":181032,"date":"2025-09-30T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181032\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:19:09","slug":"dana-white-discusses-plans-for-zuffa-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181032\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White discusses plans for Zuffa Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the recent announcement of Dana White reviving Zuffa Boxing with the help of Turki Alalshikh and Paramount\/CBS<\/a>, Dana White speaks to Max Kellerman on behalf of Ring Magazine to go more in depth about how his outfit will operate in the world of boxing. Here are some excerpts from White below with the full video interview at the top.<\/p>\n

White on his big picture plans to build Zuffa<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the things I did growing the UFC, the sport and the brand, all the things I liked about boxing and all the things I didn\u2019t like about boxing \u2014 I want to get in there and starting putting together fights with not only up-and-coming guys and people we think can be future stars, but it\u2019s sort of morphing into putting on some fights with the biggest stars in the world.<\/p>\n

On Zuffa only recognizing Ring Magazine champions, ignoring all major sanctioning bodies<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a Zuffa belt and then there will be a Ring belt, and yes, I will not recognize any of the other sanctioning bodies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of talk about people saying \u2018oh, he\u2019s talking about doing this and that, that\u2019ll never work,\u2019 well, we\u2019ll find out in the next couple of years. I\u2019m one of those guys that\u2019s going to put my head down for the next couple of years and grind. I\u2019m not worried about what everybody else is doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got Eddie Hearn going \u2018I want to compete with him, I want to do this and that\u2019 \u2014 I don\u2019t care what any of those guys are doing. These guys have been doing what they\u2019ve been doing for a hundred years, none of them have any vision, none of them ever think big time or we wouldn\u2019t even be having this conversation if any of those guys were ever a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

On priortizing evenly matched fights<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, there\u2019s going to be a lot of that, actually. I mean, that\u2019s the whole basis of the show. I want to build competitive fights with up-and-coming guys and it gets to a point when you put on competitive fights early on in guys careers, by the time the become one, two, three in the world there\u2019s no debate whether they are or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at all these different sanctioning organizations, they have the top three guys ranked in the world and a champion, they\u2019re like \u2018nah, they\u2019re not as good as these guys over here in the WBC,\u2018 or \u2018that\u2019s not as good as the WBA.\u2019 And then most of those guys never end up fighting each other. Once you make it to the top five in my events, the way that we build them, there is no doubt who the best five guys in the world are in that weight class.\u201d<\/p>\n

On how long he expects it to take for his full vision for this endeavor to come to fruition<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, two years. You\u2019ll start to notice a big difference in two years. And one of the things, without sound arrogant, if you look back throughout the last 25 years of me being in the UFC, everything I have said I would do I have done. I don\u2019t just talk and say a bunch of \u2014 I don\u2019t babble and shoot my mouth off. When I say I\u2019m going to do something, I do it. And I said I was waiting for the right time to get into boxing, here we are now, and now over the next two years I will put my head down and I will grind and will start to implement my vision on what we\u2019re going to do with our version of the sport of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the recent announcement of Dana White reviving Zuffa Boxing with the help of Turki Alalshikh and Paramount\/CBS,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-181032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181032","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=181032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}