{"id":915026,"date":"2026-09-30T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:56:15","slug":"dana-white-blames-uk-resistance-to-his-growing-boxing-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915026\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White blames UK resistance to his growing boxing role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dana White claims resistance to his involvement in boxing is
\nprimarily coming from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Tyson
\nFury<\/a> and Anthony
\nJoshua<\/a> are set to clash in a highly anticipated boxing bout on
\nDec. 11 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The fight will
\nbe broadcast on Netflix, which has announced that Turki Alalshikh\u2019s
\nThe Ring and Dana White will collaborate to promote the event.
\nHowever, White\u2019s longtime rival, Eddie Hearn, disputes the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> CEO\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n

Dana White says British boxing figures are pushing back on his
\ninvolvement
\n
\nWhite labeled traditional boxing promoters taking issue with his
\ninvolvement an \u201cego thing.\u201d He admitted that boxing isn\u2019t what it
\nwas in the United States two decades ago and claimed it has become
\nprimarily a British sport. According to White, the complaints and
\nresistance surrounding his involvement are coming from the U.K.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoxing has taken a hit in the United States,\u201d he said at the
\nlatest
\nDana White\u2019s Contender Series<\/a> presser. \u201cIt\u2019s not as big as it
\nwas here 20 years ago. It has become a very British sport. And the
\nsh*t that you\u2019re hearing, the crying and the b*tching and whatever,
\nis all coming from the U.K.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Fury and Joshua signing contracts with Alalshikh and coming
\nthrough in their tune-up fights earlier this year, uncertainty
\nsurrounded the bout until it was recently made official. While some
\nparties wanted the fight to take place in the U.S. to cater to a
\nglobal audience, Joshua and Hearn pushed for the fight to remain in
\nthe U.K. Fury also publicly expressed doubts about the matchup
\ntaking place until recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White claims resistance to his involvement in boxing is primarily coming from the United Kingdom. Tyson Fury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[1331,703,49,48,44,82],"class_list":["post-915026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-article","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915026","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=915026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}