{"id":7252,"date":"2025-07-19T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7252\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:54:08","slug":"the-money-that-the-ufc-fighters-are-paid-compared-to-boxers-is-incomparable-its-peanuts-according-to-world-champion-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7252\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Money That The UFC Fighters Are Paid Compared To Boxers Is Incomparable \u2014 It\u2019s Peanuts” According To World Champion Boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former British boxing world champion George Groves thinks Dana White<\/a> is bad for boxing. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, White announced that he was finally taking the leap from the Octagon<\/a> to the squared circle. His currently untitled promotion will look to revolutionize the centuries-old sport<\/a> by using his UFC model to streamline things, effectively cutting out the four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO) who oversee professional bouts and world championships.<\/p>\n

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Of course, not everyone is thrilled with the idea<\/a>. In particular, promoters and purists of the sweet science, like Groves, who recently cast doubt on White\u2019s ability to compete in the world of boxing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe money that the UFC fighters are paid compared to boxers is incomparable \u2014 it\u2019s peanuts,\u201d Groves said during a recent Midnite Q&A event<\/a>. That\u2019s why anyone that gets a big enough name in the UFC transitions over to boxing, like Conor McGregor<\/a> or whatnot. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say he is good for boxing, but that\u2019s from a boxer\u2019s point of view and not a fan\u2019s point of view. But I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll be able to complete boxing, I don\u2019t think anyone can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Groves cautions promoters from pushing Boxing Prospects too far, too fast<\/p>\n

One of the biggest criticisms surrounding the sport over the years was the lack of big-money matchups. Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia, has attempted to change that, throwing millions of dollars into making fights like September\u2019s clash between Canelo Alvarez and Terence \u2018Bud\u2019 Crawford<\/a> a reality. <\/p>\n

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However, Groves cautions promoters from pushing up-and-coming talent too soon, believing that fighters need to be built up to maximize their money-making potential. <\/p>\n

\u201cI always look at boxing from the boxer\u2019s point of view and not the fan\u2019s point of view,\u201d Groves added. \u201cTo get the very best fights, you have to build fighters properly to get them being at their very best. So all these \u2018Records don\u2019t matter, put them in early,\u2019 you ruin fighters by putting them in early in too tougher tests or 50\/50 fights. Someone\u2019s going to suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British boxing world champion George Groves thinks Dana White is bad for boxing. Earlier this year, White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-7252","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\/7252","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=7252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}