{"id":664412,"date":"2026-06-29T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664412\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:13:10","slug":"dana-white-doubles-down-on-joshua-fury-claims-and-says-oleksandr-usyk-to-zuffa-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664412\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White doubles down on Joshua-Fury claims and says Oleksandr Usyk to Zuffa is &#8216;possible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dana White has not ruled out staging a heavyweight showdown between Oleksandr Usyk and Deontay Wilder on his Zuffa Boxing platform. Nor has he stood down on his claims that he knows exactly where a fight between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury will take place should the heavyweight rivals get as far as sharing a ring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Eddie Hearn, on the request of Turki Alalshikh, had said he will this week head to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/eddie-hearn-heads-to-turki-alalshikh-dana-white-summit-with-all-the-aces\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018summit\u2019 where White and the Saudi Arabian financier will be present<\/a> to resolve the growing divide between Matchroom and Zuffa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The British promoter last week also claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/dana-white-has-had-two-bum-slaps-from-turki-alalshikh-claims-eddie-hearn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White had his \u2018bum smacked\u2019 by Alalshikh<\/a> for publicly claiming to know all the details about the Joshua-Fury showdown. On Sunday night, however, White insisted he wasn\u2019t concerned about Hearn \u2013 or any promotional rival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what our issues would be, I\u2019m good,\u201d he said. \u201cListen, if Eddie was here, I\u2019d talk to Eddie. I don\u2019t have any problems. I told you guys, a couple of times now\u2026 we are not the same, none of the other guys matter to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the all-British heavyweight showdown he added: \u201cLet&#8217;s see what Turki says at the summit&#8230; I have all the info&#8230; Like I told you guys back in Bournemouth [on June 8], I know where it is and never did I say it was in Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rumors have been swirling since Friday, after Usyk relinquished his IBF, WBC and WBA heavyweight titles to focus on a \u2018last dance\u2019, that the Ukrainian might be eyeing up a switch to Zuffa for his final fight. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/eddie-hearn-says-oleksandr-usyk-will-fight-deontay-wilder-next\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hearn and others had claimed it will come against veteran Wilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAnything can happen,\u201d White said twice with a smile when asked if Usyk-Wilder is heading to Zuffa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White has not ruled out staging a heavyweight showdown between Oleksandr Usyk and Deontay Wilder on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,21762,222645,4036,101,56,54,55,78289],"class_list":["post-664412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-dana-white","tag-joshua-fury","tag-oleksandr-usyk","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zuffa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664412","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=664412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}