could be considered less than sympathetic<\/a> to Aspinall\u2019s plight, but he has since attempted to clear the air. White assured reporters at Saturday\u2019s UFC 331 post-fight press conference that he has no issue with Aspinall.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t like Tom, no that\u2019s not the case,\u201d White said. \u201cIt\u2019s the furthest thing from the truth. This guy knows he\u2019s injured, he\u2019s going through stuff with the doctor, he knows it\u2019s going to be a while before he comes back. This is totally normal. I think because of what I might have said or what he might have responded to what I said after the thing, that people think that I don\u2019t like Tom. It\u2019s the furthest thing from the truth. I have no reason to not like Tom. Tom\u2019s never done anything for me not to like him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I don\u2019t like somebody, I\u2019m pretty f*cking honest about it. \u2026 I promise you this, if I did not like Tom, I would say it. And when guys sign with Eddie Hearn\u2014and this is no bullshit, I\u2019m not taking shots\u2014we f*cking crack up laughing. It\u2019s hilarious. So no, I don\u2019t dislike Tom. And anybody else who wants to sign with Eddie Hearn as their f*cking manager, fire away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aspinall signed a management deal with Hearn\u2019s Matchroom organization, mainly to help him navigate his career during his uncertain stretch on the sidelines. Hearn and White have continually taken public shots at each other, most recently about the other\u2019s involvement in the still-yet-to-be-announced Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua boxing match, but they\u2019ve also directly tangled themselves up in each other\u2019s business with White signing away longtime Matchroom Boxing star Conor Benn to fight for Zuffa Boxing, and Hearn adding Aspinall and now-former UFC fighter Michael Page to his management roster.<\/p>\n
White insists he\u2019s unbothered by Hearn\u2019s attempts to rattle his cage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can sign with whoever they want to sign,\u201d White said. \u201cWe have to deal with somebody, always, but what has Eddie Hearn done for Tom Aspinall, the first guy to sign for him? Does he have, like, unbelievable amount of sponsors now?<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody wants to play up the thing about, \u2018Oh, well this guy signed,\u2019 we don\u2019t care if he signed with Eddie Hearn. What has Eddie Hearn done? Eddie Hearn\u2019s f*cking drowning trying to save his f*cking business right now. \u2026 I haven\u2019t talked to Eddie Hearn, have you? He might want to strategically advise himself about the business that he\u2019s in right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White wants everyone to know things are copacetic with his now-former UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. Earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,1347,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-899415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899415","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=899415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}