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\u201cI mean, he was bullied into it really. They had no choice,\u201d Hearn said to Fighthype when asked about Zuffa working with Oscar De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions. \u201cDo you think Dana White would have voluntarily said, \u2018Let\u2019s do a co-promotion with Oscar De La Hoya?\u2019 I mean he can\u2019t stand him.\u201d<\/p>\n Hearn said that Zuffa entered boxing promising to avoid co-promotions and world title sanctioning bodies, but says reality quickly forced a different approach.<\/p>\n \u201cBut this is how boxing works. Sometimes you don\u2019t get like in an ideal world probably we wouldn\u2019t do co-promotions with anybody because you\u2019d rather just do it on your own. But boxing doesn\u2019t work like that. It\u2019s never worked like that,\u201d Hearn said.<\/p>\n He also pointed to the WBC\u2019s involvement in Garcia\u2019s September 12 welterweight title defense against Benn, saying Zuffa underestimated the importance of established organizations.<\/p>\n \u201cThey said they\u2019re not doing any world championship fights. In fact, Nick Khan stood on the stand to try and abolish the Muhammad Ali Act and belittle Mauricio Sulaiman,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cWell, guess what? On September the 12th, Mauricio Sulaiman will be in the ring on their show, and they\u2019ll all have to pay homage to the WBC championship because you can\u2019t just get rid of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n Hearn closed by arguing that the Garcia-Benn promotion illustrates the fundamental difference between boxing and mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n \u201cNo one\u2019s going to lay down,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cOscar De La Hoya was going to let Ryan Garcia just poodle on over to do a Zuffa show? No chance. They\u2019re control freaks, and you can\u2019t control boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Olly Campbell is a boxing journalist who has covered the sport since 2014, providing ringside reporting and technical analysis of major bouts. His work focuses on fighter tendencies, tactical adjustments, and the details that shape high-level competition.<\/p>\n Click here to subscribe to our FREE newsletter<\/a>Related Boxing News:<\/p>\n \t\t\tCategories Latest<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb News<\/a> \u00bb Eddie Hearn Claims Zuffa Was \u2018Bullied\u2019 Into Co-Promotion<\/p>\n Last Updated on 2026\/07\/19 at 8:18 AM \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom\u2019s chairman says co-promotions and the WBC forced Zuffa Boxing to abandon the promises it made when entering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700225","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\/700225","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=700225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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