Jaylen Brown, the Boston Celtics star, revealed he has spoken with UFC CEO Dana White about potentially fighting in the UFC or boxing after his NBA career. The five-time NBA All-Star and 2024 NBA Finals MVP made the comments at NBA All-Star Media Day on February 15, 2026.<\/p>\n
Brown, 29, confirmed his interest in combat sports after his basketball career and that he has spoken with Dana White about it. <\/p>\n
To be honest, I\u2019ve toyed with this, and I\u2019ve talked to some people, maybe post part of my career, I would love to take part in something like UFC, or even boxing,\u201d Brown told reporters. \u201cI\u2019ve talked to Dana White about some stuff, but we\u2019ll see as things go on.<\/p>\n
He is listed at 6-foot-6 and weighs 223 pounds, which would place him in the UFC heavyweight division. Brown also has training in Muay Thai. <\/p>\n
Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla is a well-known MMA fan who attends UFC events and uses fight footage as teaching tools with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaylen Brown, the Boston Celtics star, revealed he has spoken with UFC CEO Dana White about potentially fighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[14969,49,48,10484,19683,641,10384,638,193493,82,28365,640,2321,2547],"class_list":{"0":"post-477088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-brown","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-dana","12":"tag-eyes","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-jaylen","15":"tag-mma","16":"tag-nbas","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talks","19":"tag-ufc","20":"tag-white","21":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477088","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=477088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}