Dana White is front and center ahead of the premiere of Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n
On Friday, White and the UFC released a promo for the boxing promotion\u2019s first event, which takes place at the APEX in Las Vegas on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n
The video follows a figure\u2014later revealed to be White\u2014as he marches through an arena towards a boxing ring, with a dramatic voice-over going over the glorious history of boxing and lamenting its supposed decline. Boxing is described as having \u201clost its aura\u201d and apparently, there\u2019s only one man that can save the sport.<\/p>\n
Asking why boxing has been\u2014as the narrator claims\u2014\u201cpushed to the margins,\u201d we are then told its \u201cmaybe because there\u2019s never been an architect, a visionary, whose been able to harness its power and present it the way it should be presented.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs there someone who can take up the mantle for the greatest sport in human history? There\u2019s only one way to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lineup for the first Zuffa Boxing event has also been finalized, with the main event featuring undefeated junior middleweight Callum Walsh (15-0) taking on Carlos Ocampo (38-3). Check out the full Zuffa Boxing 1 lineup below.<\/p>\n
Callum Walsh vs. Carlos Ocampo \u2014 middleweight, 10 rounds<\/p>\n
Misael Rodriguez vs. Austin Deanda \u2014 middleweight, 10 rounds<\/p>\n
Julian Rodriguez vs. Cain Sandoval \u2014 welterweight, 10 rounds<\/p>\n
Omar Trinidad vs. Max Ornelas \u2014 featherweight, 10 rounds<\/p>\n
Floyd Diaz vs. Guillermo Gutierrez \u2014 bantamweight, 8 rounds<\/p>\n
Emiliano Cardenas vs. Marcus Harris \u2014 bantamweight, 6 rounds<\/p>\n
Robert Meriweather III vs. Cesar Correa \u2014 lightweight, 6 rounds<\/p>\n
Troy Nash vs. Jaycob Ramos \u2014 lightweight, 6 rounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White is front and center ahead of the premiere of Zuffa Boxing. On Friday, White and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,1347,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-420347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420347","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=420347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}