Ocampo wore Zuffa gloves, but Walsh opted for his usual gloves and shoes.<\/p>\n
The fight card moved at pace with majority of bouts competitive, and the ringwalks clocked in at under a minute as the boxers made the short walk from backstage to the ring.<\/p>\n
Fight bonuses of \u00a337,000 were handed out and three of the eight fights featured undefeated fighters matched together, which Loeffler says that will be a hallmark of Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n
“The great thing about Zuffa Boxing is if you have a loss on your resume but you’re an exciting fighter who put on a good show for the fans, you’re going to be right back on two, three months later just like in the UFC structure,” he told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“Fighters aren’t going to be afraid to take a competitive fight because they know they’re not going to be cut from the roster.”<\/p>\n
In many ways, the Meta Apex – the home of the UFC and its performance institute – is a fitting starting point for Zuffa Boxing as White aims to build it out of the same framework as the MMA promotion.<\/p>\n
But there are no plans to make the Meta Apex the permanent home of Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n
“The first few shows will be here and then we’ll go on the road,” Loeffler said.<\/p>\n
Once the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act passes through Congress into law, Zuffa will be able to operate as it prefers, crowning its own world champions.<\/p>\n
The prospect has made seemingly every major player in boxing take notice – including a pessimistic Eddie Hearn – and driven some like sanctioning body the WBC to publicly label White and Zuffa Boxing as “bullies” and “aggressive”.<\/p>\n
But Loeffler, who helped populate the first Zuffa event with fighters signed to his 360 Promotions, is envisioning the promotion having a transformative effect on boxing.<\/p>\n
“What’s different about Zuffa Boxing is the energy that Dana White is bringing, all of his experience and success with building the UFC,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You combine that with Nick Khan and all the success he’s had with WWE. You put those two powerhouses together [and ] it’s really going to revitalise and rejuvenate the sport.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ocampo wore Zuffa gloves, but Walsh opted for his usual gloves and shoes. The fight card moved at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-434058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434058","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=434058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}