{"id":483848,"date":"2026-02-16T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483848\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:51:08","slug":"dana-white-mocks-rival-promoters-after-zuffa-boxing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483848\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Mocks Rival Promoters After Zuffa Boxing 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/dana-white\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dana White<\/a> criticized boxing promoters after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/article\/zuffa-boxing-03-results-ajagba-vs-martin-live-from-las-vegas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zuffa Boxing 03 on February 15, 2026,<\/a> at the Meta Apex in Enterprise, Nevada. White believes his new venture is already dominating the boxing landscape, and can&#8217;t believe how easy it&#8217;s been so far.<\/p>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/video\/154398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the post-fight press conference<\/a>, White commented on the perceived lack of resistance from established boxing promoters to Zuffa Boxing&#8217;s entry into the market. White said, <\/p>\n<p>This is like beating up babies. I feel like I came in and I\u2019m beating up babies. I expected more. I expected some pushback. I expected them to be more game. This is all way out of their league, like absolutely, positively out of their league. I\u2019m actually a little shocked.<\/p>\n<p>White added that Zuffa will not work with the four major sanctioning bodies and called Eddie Hearn&#8217;s comments about a Zuffa belt &#8220;cringey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments followed Efe Ajagba&#8217;s (20-1, 14 KOs) TKO victory over former IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin (29-4-1, 26 KOs) in Round 4 (1:11). White also criticized WBC President Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n, calling him &#8220;the greatest P.R. guy for how fucked up boxing is.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>White has signed former featherweight champion Mark Magsayo and is interested in recruiting former two-division champion Teofimo Lopez. Zuffa Boxing 04 is scheduled for March 8, 2026, featuring Jai Opetaia vs. Brandon Glanton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White criticized boxing promoters after Zuffa Boxing 03 on February 15, 2026, at the Meta Apex in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,958,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-483848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dana-white","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483848","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=483848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}