{"id":529103,"date":"2026-03-09T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:02:10","slug":"eddie-hearn-hits-back-after-dana-white-brands-him-a-p-over-boxing-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529103\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn hits back after Dana White brands him a ‘p****’ over boxing fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Hearn has hilariously accepted Dana White’s challenge to a boxing match after the UFC boss called him a ‘p**sy’.<\/p>\n

White<\/a>, who heads Zuffa Boxing, and Matchroom chief Hearn<\/a> have butted heads, but their feud escalated after Conor Benn switched promoters.<\/p>\n

Benn joined White’s Zuffa Boxing and will make his first appearance since his split with Hearn on the undercard of Tyson Fury’s comeback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hearn returned fire by recruiting UFC<\/a> heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall to his new agency company, Matchroom Talent Agency.<\/p>\n

Speaking before Aspinall linked up with Hearn, White called out his fellow promoter to a boxing fight, having called him a ‘p**sy’ for the way he reacted to Benn leaving his stable.<\/p>\n

“Listen, if Eddie wants to box, we can box. We can box if Eddie wants to box. I don\u2019t think Eddie wants to box,” he said on Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, [I\u2019d be confident of winning]. Listen, back in the day, I used to box with all the guys, boxers and UFC guys. I have boxed. Absolutely [we could box].”<\/p>\n

\"DanaDana White called out Eddie Hearn to a boxing fight after calling him a ‘p*ssy’. Image: Getty <\/p>\n

Well, Hearn is up for a fight – literally – and even suggested he could ‘spark White out’.<\/p>\n

“How mad is it that in one week Dana White has called me a p**sy on several occasions and called me out for a fight,” he said on The Stomping Ground.<\/a> “Things must be going really well to be fair. But anyway, back to that. Whenever someone’s talking about me fighting someone in the boxing game, I’ve always said yes because I know I’d win.”<\/p>\n

Hearn caught wind of footage of White sparring and admits he could get ‘flattened’.<\/p>\n

However, he also reckons he could utilise his reach to knock him out.<\/p>\n

“But I did watch a bit of footage of Dana sparring,” he added. “He’s actually not bad. He’s bit of a beast as well, isn’t he? But yeah, I do it in a heartbeat because I couldn’t say no, could I?<\/p>\n

“Also there is so much money in that fight. I would get paid an absolute fortune. So, I would have to do it anyway. But on all the others I’d say I’d win easy, but against him it ain’t going to be easy and I might get chinned and flattened. But I could use the reach… just ping him with a right hand and I could knock him spark out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn has hilariously accepted Dana White’s challenge to a boxing match after the UFC boss called him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,958,9915,85,787],"class_list":["post-529103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-dana-white","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529103","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=529103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}