{"id":501091,"date":"2026-02-24T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501091\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:11:12","slug":"conor-benn-joins-zuffa-boxing-sparking-feud-between-dana-white-and-eddie-hearn-sports-news-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501091\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn joins Zuffa Boxing, sparking feud between Dana White and Eddie Hearn \u2014 Sports News Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Dana White criticism<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hearn added to the criticism of White, pointing out how he threw Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall under the bus after his no-contest fight against Ciryl Gane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">&#8220;Look at what they did to Tom Aspinall,\u201d he said. \u201cTom Aspinall literally had his eye gouged out in a fight and Dana White basically called him a cry baby and cast him aside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cHumiliated him in front of everybody, while the guy is having operations to save his eyesight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">White\u2019s response to Hearn<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">White bit back at Hearn\u2019s comments with a vulgar outburst, claiming that Hearn could not match the money Zuffa put up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">He said: \u201cI think you saw this week that I am really beating up babies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIs there a bigger p*ssy than Eddie Hearn? This guy\u2019s supposed to be your friend and you\u2019re f**king crying?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cHe made more money, he\u2019s going to make more money and he had the right to match it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cHe couldn\u2019t match it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Benn plays mediator\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Benn responded to the situation, claiming he still wants a relationship with Matchroom, saying: \u201cI\u2019m doing this for my family &#8211; it\u2019s an offer you\u2019d be mentally ill to turn down, so for me, I\u2019m blessed to be in the position I\u2019m in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cBut I wanna maintain my relationship with Matchroom, especially Eddie Hearn, Frank Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White criticism Hearn added to the criticism of White, pointing out how he threw Heavyweight champion Tom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-501091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501091","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=501091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}