{"id":323357,"date":"2019-08-23T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=323357"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:01:59","slug":"eddie-hearn-dana-white-wont-be-able-to-control-the-fighters-in-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/eddie-hearn-dana-white-wont-be-able-to-control-the-fighters-in-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn: Dana White won’t be able to ‘control the fighters’ in boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dana White will soon launch Zuffa Boxing, a promotion that he hopes will revolutionize The Sweet Science. As Zuffa Boxing draws nearer and nearer to fruition, White has said that he hopes to apply the same practices<\/a> that have made the UFC so successful to this new boxing venture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the sport and the politics in the sport and it has always been that way and if somebody doesn\u2019t change it, it\u2019s always gonna be that way,\u201d White told Helen Yee<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We will promote boxers] just like we promote all these guys here. First of all, in boxing there is no brand. I always talk about the machine, the UFC machine we\u2019ve built here, and when we put guys or girls who are talented in the machine, you start to build them and there\u2019s nothing like that in boxing. That\u2019s what I want to build. I would do it just like I\u2019ve done it here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eddie Heard, one of the most successful promoters in boxing today, believes White is going to have a tough time doing that. While he is complimentary of the UFC boss, he doesn’t seem to think the UFC model will work in boxing.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1164706257699315719<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Dana White is a very intelligent man,\u201d Hearn said on MMA on SiriusXM with Luke Thomas (via Bloody Elbow<\/a>). \u201cI think he\u2019s a great promoter as well. A lot of the stuff that he\u2019s done with the UFC \u2014 I\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019ve copied a lot of it. They\u2019ve done a great job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the difference [is] he\u2019s gonna find it very different in boxing [compered to] UFC. It\u2019s not a sport that you can go in and dominate the fighters, control the fighters, get them to sign contracts to fight ultimately whoever they\u2019re told to fight, which is the UFC model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eddie Hearn continued, driving home the point that Dana White will not be able to exert control over fighters in boxing the way he does in the UFC.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons I think the UFC does so well is because fighters really are told which fights they\u2019re taking,” he said. “That\u2019s not the way in boxing. [In] boxing, the fighters tend to have much more control over their career. Of course there are a number of promoters, there are a number of networks who are involved, so there\u2019s a huge amount of politics in the sport of boxing, which is frustrating sometimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s something that\u2019s actually going to frustrate Dana White,\u201d Hearn concluded. \u201cSo I would love him to have a go at that, because I think the more promoters, the more investment, the more people making effort to make this sport great, the better. So here\u2019s more than welcome, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll have the same kind of model as the UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 8\/23\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dana White will soon launch Zuffa Boxing, a promotion that he hopes will revolutionize The Sweet Science. 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