{"id":720022,"date":"2026-06-07T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720022\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:33:08","slug":"dana-white-wont-force-tom-aspinall-to-fight-if-eddie-hearn-holds-champ-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720022\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Won\u2019t \u2018Force\u2019 Tom Aspinall To Fight If Eddie Hearn Holds Champ Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last six months have been interesting for Matchroom\u2019s Hearn and White, who has taken lead for Zuffa Boxing in 2026 in addition to his role with UFC. The two boxing heads have clashed in the public eye, including White\u2019s poaching of boxing star Conor Benn<\/a> and Hearn\u2019s retaliation signing<\/a> of Aspinall. White and Hearn have even discussed having their own boxing match<\/a> to settle their beef, but luckily for everyone that is more posturing than anything.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Hearn took another shot at White by claiming he\u2019s going to hold Aspinall out<\/a> until his UFC contract is reworked. According to Hearn, the financials of the contract are \u201coutrageous\u201d and Aspinall needs to make considerably more money as the promotion\u2019s heavyweight champion. As you may have expected, Hearn\u2019s threat to withhold Aspinall from his UFC comeback eventually made its way to White.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, White was in England to host Zuffa Boxing 7, which was the promotion\u2019s first overseas card and trip outside of the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. After the conclusion of the event, White spoke with reporters and was informed of Hearn\u2019s comments. Below is what he had to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Eddie is not gonna let his fighter fight what are you gonna do? Can\u2019t make anybody fight. You can\u2019t force anybody to fight. You have to wanna fight. So we\u2019ll see how it plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n

What we do know for certain is that Aspinall won\u2019t be present at next weekend\u2019s UFC White House card because the promotion DIDN\u2019T INVITE HIM!<\/a><\/p>\n

Any thoughts, Maniacs? Are we looking at an even longer layoff for Aspinall or will all of this get worked out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last six months have been interesting for Matchroom\u2019s Hearn and White, who has taken lead for Zuffa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-720022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720022","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=720022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}