{"id":769089,"date":"2026-06-29T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769089\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:30:09","slug":"dana-white-passes-on-saudi-boxing-peace-summit-im-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769089\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White passes on Saudi boxing \u2018peace summit\u2019: \u2018I\u2019m good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have gotten messy between all the boxing promoters working under Saudi power broker Turki Alalshikh\u2019s umbrella, and the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority has suggested a \u2018peace summit\u2019<\/a> to sort things out. The only problem: all of his friends are having too much fun feuding.<\/p>\n

Zuffa Boxing keeps poaching Eddie Hearn\u2019s fighters<\/a> and Dana White claims he\u2019s going to push the Matchroom Boxing head out of the biggest fights of the year. But Hearn insists he\u2019s having a great time battling White, with the beef only increasing his fame in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to be honest: this war that I\u2019m in with Dana White, I find so enjoyable,\u201d Hearn said during a recent media scrum. \u201cYou see what\u2019s going on now with me and Dana for six months? I did that for 15 years with Frank Warren, and let me tell you something now, Dana White can\u2019t lace Frank Warren\u2019s boots when it comes to having a war in boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you ask me, I don\u2019t really want peace. I want war, but in a good way. I\u2019ve got nothing personal against Dana White. I\u2019m just really enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

White was equally uninterested when asked about Turki\u2019s proposed meeting following Sunday\u2019s Zuffa Boxing 08 event<\/a> at the Cosmopolitan in Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what our issues would be. I\u2019m good,\u201d White said. \u201cListen. If Eddie was here, I\u2019d talk to Eddie. I don\u2019t have any problems. I mean, I told you guys a couple times now, when all these [promoters], not just on the boxing side, but on the MMA side, I know it\u2019s fun to ask \u2014 we are not the same. We are not the same. Any of these guys. The competitors that I look at as competition right now pare] the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, and the NHL.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of these other guys matter to me. None of them on either side. On the MMA side or the or the boxing side. I\u2019m not even gonna go into that kind of s\u2014t anymore. We are not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

White agreed with another press member\u2019s suggestion that a meeting would be to iron out details on an upcoming Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua fight.<\/a> Hearn has said signed contracts dictate that White not be involved in the bout, and that it must take place in the United Kingdom, not America as has been rumored recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would make sense,\u201d White said before claiming he already knew exactly what was happening with the fight. \u201cI have all the info. See what Turki says in the peace summit \u2026 I know where it is, and never did I say it was in Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things have gotten messy between all the boxing promoters working under Saudi power broker Turki Alalshikh\u2019s umbrella, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,82,702],"class_list":["post-769089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769089","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=769089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}