{"id":439452,"date":"2026-02-22T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439452\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:27:08","slug":"conor-benn-eddie-hearn-warns-boxer-how-dana-white-humilated-ufc-champion-tom-aspinall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439452\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Benn: Eddie Hearn warns boxer how Dana White ‘humilated’ UFC champion Tom Aspinall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearn said he expected “loyalty” from Benn after standing by him during his doping suspension, which was eventually lifted in November 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n

Benn’s profile rocketed in part thanks to the doping scandal, which was intertwined with an epic two-fight rivalry<\/a> with Chris Eubank Jr.<\/p>\n

Hearn described losing Benn to Zuffa Boxing as “painful” but insisted Benn has now aligned himself with “ruthless” operators.<\/p>\n

“Look at what they did to [UFC heavyweight champion] Tom Aspinall. Tom Aspinall literally had his eye gouged out in a fight<\/a> and Dana White basically called him a cry baby and cast him aside, humiliated him in front of everybody, while the guy is having operations to save his eyesight,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n

“Dana White wouldn’t do what I did for Conor Benn. But we’re different people, and we have a different passion for the sport.<\/p>\n

“You’re a pawn in the game if you’re Conor Benn, aren’t you? We’re different organisations.<\/p>\n

“I’ve said it before: these guys are very, very powerful, ruthless people. They don’t care about the sport of boxing.<\/p>\n

“In my opinion, they don’t care about the fighters – it’s just a business to them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearn said he expected “loyalty” from Benn after standing by him during his doping suspension, which was eventually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439452","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=439452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}