Charlie Parsons.<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t know what the f*ck he was talking about there. That\u2019s quite disturbing, if I\u2019m honest with you. It\u2019s very strange because I\u2019ve got to be honest with you, I wouldn\u2019t say up my ass, but Dana\u2019s always been so complimentary about us as a company and me as a promoter but to say that I don\u2019t have any vision is really quite strange.<\/p>\n\u201cI mean right now when you talk about Zuffa [Boxing] or whatever it\u2019s called, when you talk about their vision, what\u2019s their vision? Getting Max Kellerman to tell everyone that Callum Walsh is the next Roy Jones? Or putting Charles Martin on a headline show on a Sunday night in front of 126 people in your garage? In a ring that looks like you just got it out of a local club show. What sort of f*cking vision\u2019s that? Or better still, here\u2019s a belt, here\u2019s Zuffa, look at the vision. That\u2019s not vision. That\u2019s control. Because the reality is when he says \u2018we can\u2019t compete\u2019 \u2014 they can\u2019t compete in this cutthroat world of boxing. Because it\u2019s a horrible world, and they don\u2019t want to compete. They want to create their own world.\u201d<\/p>\n
White has repeatedly stated that he\u2019s just getting started with Zuffa Boxing but he\u2019s already seen great results through the first four shows for the promotion.<\/p>\n
It sounds like Hearn has been watching but he hasn\u2019t been impressed, especially when it comes to the quality of talent on display.<\/p>\n
\u201cListen at the moment when you compare Matchroom shows to Zuffa shows, quite frankly Zuffa shows are absolute complete dogshit,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cBut they\u2019re going to get better and they\u2019re going to sign some big fighters and they\u2019re going to spunk some money, they\u2019re going to waste some money. I\u2019ve said it before, they\u2019re clever people.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut right now they\u2019re trying to manipulate fight fans, and they don\u2019t understand how intelligent fight fans are when it comes to boxing. You can\u2019t create these cards and tell everyone it\u2019s the best [versus] the best because it\u2019s quite frankly not.\u201d<\/p>\n
As far as working for his father, Hearn didn\u2019t shy away from the reality of his situation where Barry Hearn founded Matchroom and he currently helps him run the company.<\/p>\n
But Hearn says that\u2019s really no different from what White did working as UFC president and now serving as UFC CEO because he wasn\u2019t ultimately the final decision maker in either instance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is yes, I do work for my dad,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cBut guess what? Dana White has worked for his daddy for a long time. The Fertitta brothers, that\u2019s who he worked for. Right now, Dana White\u2019s got a new daddy and his name is Turki Alalshikh. Turki Alalshikh is Dana White\u2019s pappy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has got to do whatever he\u2019s told because he works for TKO [Group Holdings], which is owned by SELA and the Saudis and Turki Alalshikh.\u201d<\/p>\n
The back-and-forth exchanges between Hearn and White have only gotten more heated in recent weeks and the escalating tension between them likely isn\u2019t going away any time soon.<\/p>\n
Hearn felt like White\u2019s comment about working for his father was a bit of a low blow but he\u2019s happy to respond in kind.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took him a nanosecond to get personal,\u201d Hearn said about White. \u201cBut that\u2019s because right now he\u2019s right at the bottom of the pile in terms of quality as a boxing promoter. As I keep saying, they\u2019re a good operation and they will get better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The public feud between Eddie Hearn and Dana White just continues to escalate. Once friendly and complimentary about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,913,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}