{"id":761201,"date":"2026-06-26T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:50:52","slug":"bob-arum-dana-white-would-be-a-cancer-for-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761201\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum: Dana White Would Be &#8216;A Cancer For Boxing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=boxing247.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"208\" alt=\"Add East Side Boxing as a preferred source on Google\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/google.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEV0p2ZUdsdVp6STBOeTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3&amp;hl=en-US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;&#010;            width:140px; height:40px; overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"128\" alt=\"Follow East Side Boxing on Google News\" style=\"height:100%; width:auto; display:block;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/follow-google-news.png\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDana White really is a cancer for boxing because you come in and you want to get rid of all the sanctioning bodies, and we know where that\u2019s going to lead,\u201d Arum said to Fight Hub TV.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Fame promoter pointed to the UFC\u2019s fighter-pay lawsuits as evidence that boxing should be wary of White\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what happened with Dana White and the UFC and how they made a lot of money by underpaying the fighters. They\u2019ve just lost a lawsuit for $350 million. They\u2019re about to lose another lawsuit for $400 million,\u201d said Arum.<\/p>\n<p>Arum believes boxing\u2019s current promotional system pays elite fighters considerably better than a centralized model similar to the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they got a foothold in boxing, in my opinion, it would be the same thing as far as the boxers were concerned. Initially, they\u2019d make money, but ultimately they\u2019d be like paupers,\u201d said Arum.<\/p>\n<p>Arum doubled down later in the interview when asked if he would consider working with White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think that Dana White would end up to be a cancer for the sport of boxing. I don\u2019t like how he operated in the UFC. They were underpaying all these fighters,\u201d said Arum.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his criticism of White, Arum spoke positively about DAZN, saying the streaming service has the resources to help boxing regain mainstream popularity by working with multiple promoters rather than controlling the sport under a single banner.<\/p>\n<p>He also dismissed suggestions that Turki Alalshikh\u2019s proposed \u201cpeace talks\u201d between leading promoters and White should be viewed as a major development, saying he would not \u201ctake it very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youtube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782463852_723_hqdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDana White really is a cancer for boxing because you come in and you want to get rid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-761201","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\/761201","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=761201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}