Dana White might continue his war of words with Eddie Hearn, but he scored the first real knockout in the rivalry by signing Conor Benn to Zuffa Boxing after he was previously part of the Matchroom Boxing roster.<\/p>\n
The marquee deal announced on Friday brings Benn to Zuffa Boxing after he counted Hearn as his promoter for most of his career. Reacting to the news, Hearn said he was \u201cdevastated\u201d and added that he thought he deserved a call from Benn to discuss what was happening but his request was denied.<\/p>\n
Following UFC Houston on Saturday, White took a victory lap about the signing and stated that Hearn had the chance to keep Benn on his roster but didn\u2019t make it happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you saw this week I really am beating up babies,\u201d White said at the post-fight press conference. \u201cIs there a bigger p*ssy than Eddie Hearn?<\/p>\n
\u201cThis guy\u2019s supposed to be your friend, you\u2019re f*cking crying? He made more money. He\u2019s going to make more money, and he had the right to match it. He could have matched it.\u201d<\/p>\n
As far as Hearn allegedly receiving a message from Benn\u2019s lawyer notifying him about the deal with Zuffa Boxing and then getting rebuffed when he tried to reach out to the boxer, White isn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a crock of shit,\u201d White said about Hearn. \u201cYeah, we\u2019re literally beating up babies.\u201d<\/p>\n
White had previously said that he was surprised at how easily he was operating in the sport since launching Zuffa Boxing in January while old school promoters like Hearn were offering him almost no real opposition.<\/p>\n
Obviously, White already had an idea that the Benn deal was in the works and he was very happy to celebrate that signing while taking away one of Hearn\u2019s top clients.<\/p>\n
That only adds fuel to the fire after White promised a very big debut year for Zuffa Boxing and the latest signing is apparently just the next of many moves coming from the fledgling promotion.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said at the last press conference there, judge us at the end of the year by the work that we do this year,\u201d White said. \u201cAt the end of the year, you judge what you think we\u2019ve accomplished in one year in the sport of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White might continue his war of words with Eddie Hearn, but he scored the first real knockout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82],"class_list":["post-492227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492227","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=492227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}