{"id":921321,"date":"2026-10-05T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921321\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:18:10","slug":"dana-white-eddie-hearn-continue-to-battle-it-out-over-involvement-in-fury-vs-joshua-i-think-hes-completely-cooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921321\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White, Eddie Hearn continue to battle it out over involvement in Fury vs. Joshua: \u2018I think he\u2019s completely cooked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are gearing up for a fight on Dec. 11 in Cardiff, Wales but it feels like UFC CEO Dana White and Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Eddie Hearn are ready to throw down as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The constant back-and-forth between the promoters has continued to escalate in recent days after the deal for Fury vs. Joshua was finalized. Hearn has insisted that White will have nothing to do with the fight whatsoever while the UFC boss recently claimed that his team is actually running the production for the live broadcast, which is airing on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">During a press conference on Saturday, Hearn effectively laughed at the idea that the UFC would be running the show in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cTo be honest with you at this point, I think he\u2019s completely cooked,\u201d Hearn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vW2k-9vla6M&amp;t=8s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said about White. \u201c<\/a>What he actually said was \u2018we are doing the TV production,\u2019 which again in the contract is prohibited. I wasn\u2019t going to drop that video by the way, I actually started to feel bad for him. I woke up to all that and I just dropped the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAfter that video, I spoke to SELA and I said \u2018have you seen this video?\u2019 They said \u2018yes, and it\u2019s completely untrue.\u2019 He cannot do that under the contract. I actually admire him because rather than going \u2018listen, fair play, Hearn\u2019s had me by the short and curlies.\u2019 No, he just won\u2019t give up. I quite respect it and admire it because the front on him is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The video Hearn released was basically a compilation of comments that White made in the past about the fight and it showed the veteran promoter was keeping receipts through this whole ordeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hearn doubled down that White isn\u2019t involved in the event after he held a separate conversation with SELA \u2014 the Saudi Arabian based company funding the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI went to SELA and they confirmed in writing absolute bollocks,\u201d Hearn told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xmm49EXt6nU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IFL.tv.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m like this guy has absolutely lost the plot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For his part, White didn\u2019t fan the flames any more than he already has in the past by reiterating that his team is running the production for the broadcast on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Beyond that, White didn\u2019t seem interested in another rage-filled tirade aimed at Hearn with the fight still two months away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI will be there,\u201d White said at the UFC 332 post-fight press conference. \u201cWe\u2019re producing the show. Just like Canelo-Crawford, same thing. Craig Borsari, Zach, my whole team. We will be producing the show. I\u2019ll have my little phone on the table just like tonight and every other show that I produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019ll be there. I\u2019m producing it. I\u2019m promoting it. I\u2019ll see you in Wales.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are gearing up for a fight on Dec. 11 in Cardiff, Wales but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":["post-921321","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","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921321","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=921321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}