{"id":425377,"date":"2026-01-22T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425377\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:55:08","slug":"dana-white-confirms-talks-with-oleksandr-usyk-looking-to-sign-most-talented-boxers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425377\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Confirms Talks With Oleksandr Usyk, Looking To Sign Most Talented Boxers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

Zuffa Boxing<\/p>\n

Zuffa Boxing is looking to make another big splash in the boxing world.<\/p>\n

Last week, the new boxing organization, headed by UFC CEO Dana White and WWE President Nick Khan, signed the top 10 pound-for-pound fighter, Jai Opetaia.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with TalkSport, Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s team director, Sergey Lapin, revealed that they were in talks with White and Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

During Wednesday\u2019s Zuffa Boxing 01 press conference, White confirmed they were in talks with Usyk, and are looking to sign the best boxers in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking to everybody we think are the most talented people in the world or have the potential to be the most talented people in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking to sign anyone who we think potentially can be the best in the world or is the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

White says he plans to bring the UFC model to boxing and make the biggest fights that he can make. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the UFC, not just the success of it but the sustainability of it, I took everything that I loved about boxing, and everything that I hated about boxing, and that\u2019s how we built the UFC. So if it works for the UFC, it should definitely work for boxing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the NFL and what they\u2019ve been able to do over the last 50 or 60 years, boxing has been around a lot longer than them, so if boxing was built like a business, imagine where it would be today.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday night, Zuffa Boxing will air its first-ever boxing card, which will feature a main event of Callum Walsh vs Carlos Ocampo, and will air live on Paramount +.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing Zuffa Boxing is looking to make another big splash in the boxing world. Last week, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82,75400],"class_list":["post-425377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}