But what exactly happened?<\/p>\n
UFC CEO Dana White addressed that subject at the UFC 333 post-fight press conference after Zuffa Boxing let Stevenson walk without incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI offered him his release,\u201d White said. \u201cI offered him the release. Listen I think everybody involved, they\u2019re happy with where we\u2019re at. I have nothing bad to say about him or his team. But I offered them the release and they accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stevenson\u2019s signing was widely considered the biggest addition to the Zuffa Boxing roster since the organization first launched. Undefeated and considered one of the top pound-for-pound boxers in the sport, Stevenson joined forces with Zuffa and there were immediately rumors about a potential showdown with Devin Haney.<\/p>\n
However, that fight didn\u2019t come together and no other matchups happened before Stevenson decided to part ways with Zuffa. For his part, White says there\u2019s no bad blood, and he doesn\u2019t have anything bad to say about Stevenson, but the two parties have gone their separate ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never even did one fight with the guy,\u201d White said about why he granted the release. \u201cWe were in business a couple of months.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen, I\u2019m not going to say anything negatively about him or we tried to do this or we tried to do that. We got to a position where we both agreed we were cool with the release.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But what exactly happened? UFC CEO Dana White addressed that subject at the UFC 333 post-fight press conference…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941707,"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-941706","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\/941706","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=941706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}