Turki Alalshikh convened a meeting of boxing\u2019s top promoters and broadcasters in London on Tuesday, bringing together Eddie Hearn, Frank Warren, DAZN and Gold Star executives for a session that ran more than four hours. Dana White did not attend.<\/p>\n
Alalshikh posted a photo of the gathering on X, writing that the group discussed \u201ceverything\u201d over the course of the meeting and describing it as a \u201cbig meeting today between DAZN, Queensberry, Matchroom and Gold Star.\u201d He added that the session \u201cwill affect the future\u201d without elaborating on specifics.<\/p>\n
Nick Khan, president of WWE and a board member of TKO Group Holdings who also serves as an executive with Zuffa Boxing, met separately with Alalshikh and did not appear in the main group photo. Alalshikh shared a second image with Khan, captioned \u201cwith my brother and my partner Nick Khan today in London\u201d and referencing \u201cbig surprises in the future.\u201d It was not immediately clear why Khan was pictured apart from the larger group.<\/p>\n
Hearn Travels Amid Ongoing Rivalry With White<\/p>\n
Hearn confirmed his attendance to reporters in Dublin before departing for London. \u201cI\u2019m getting on a plane in about 45 minutes to go and see Turki and Nick Khan, who\u2019s Dana\u2019s boss, to see how those conversations are going to go,\u201d Hearn said, according to BoxingScene. He added that while he considers Alalshikh a partner, he was not convinced a truce was necessary. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say no to the meeting, but right now, I don\u2019t see the need for peace, if you like,\u201d Hearn said.<\/p>\n
The meeting followed weeks of public sparring between Hearn\u2019s Matchroom Boxing and White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing, the promotional venture White co-founded with Khan and Alalshikh under the TKO and Sela partnership. Much of that conflict has centered on the long anticipated Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury fight, which remains unresolved on venue and lead promoter despite both fighters having signed contracts.<\/p>\n
White Declines to Attend<\/p>\n
Alalshikh first floated the idea of a sitdown days earlier, saying he hoped to bring White, Khan, Warren, Hearn and DAZN to the same table. White was noncommittal when asked about it following a UFC event over the weekend, saying he did not see a need for the conversation. He was absent from Tuesday\u2019s meeting, with reporting from Bloody Elbow<\/a> confirming he did not travel to London.<\/p>\n No new agreements or fight announcements emerged from the meeting as of Tuesday evening. Warren, whose Queensberry Promotions has filed a legal claim against TKO and Sela over Zuffa Boxing\u2019s formation, also attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh convened a meeting of boxing\u2019s top promoters and broadcasters in London on Tuesday, bringing together Eddie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-774606","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\/774606","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=774606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}