{"id":870105,"date":"2026-08-27T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870105\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:52:11","slug":"dana-white-on-promoting-jake-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870105\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White On Promoting Jake Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White says he has no plans to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/jake-paul\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> into the Zuffa Boxing fold, despite acknowledging a level of respect for his longtime rival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. That&#8217;s not what I do. There&#8217;s obviously a market for that, but that&#8217;s not what I do. I put the best fighters in the world against each other. From the minute that they get into the sport, all the way up to world champion, the best fight the best. There&#8217;s always going to be a place for the Paul brother type fights, but that&#8217;s not what I do. The best. I&#8217;m looking for the best fighters in the world,&#8221; White<\/p>\n<p>White also credited Paul for the risk he took stepping in with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/anthony-joshua\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I literally didn&#8217;t think that was going to happen. And I said \u2014 when you go in there and box a guy like AJ, this isn&#8217;t a joke. This isn&#8217;t a game. That could kill him. And look, he literally broke his face\u2026 It was a ballsy move getting in there with Anthony Joshua,&#8221; White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White says he has no plans to bring Jake Paul into the Zuffa Boxing fold, despite acknowledging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-870105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870105","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=870105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}