Dana White and Turki Alalshikh have taken the boxing world without warning. The partnership between TKO, the UFC mother or father firm, and Turki Alalshik has joined forces to create a brand new boxing promotion that seeks to wash up the boxing world. They wish to create a unified boxing world the place there is just one world title per division in protest of the present boxing panorama.
As seen above, one will need to have each main world title in boxing to develop into the undisputed champion of that division, so there are 4 belts. The IBF, WBC, WBA, and WBO. The IBO and Ring journal belt will not be essential to have undisputed standing, nevertheless that title usually award to those that develop into undisputed of their divisions.
So Dana White, Turkey, and the brass of TKO wish to try to revolutionize the boxing world. Nonetheless, on the UFC 313 post-press convention, Dana White was requested concerning the particulars of his relationship with Turki, and he revealed that he could be the one operating the behind-the-scenes enterprise dealings on account of his expertise in fight sports activities promotion.
“I would say yes—Sheikh Turki and Saudi Arabia are the dominant players in boxing right now. Basically, I’m going to run and manage the business for them. This is not an easy business to be in. You guys have seen over the many years that I’ve been doing this—lots of people have tried to get into this sport and the fight business.”
“The combat enterprise appears like a enjoyable trade till you really begin spending cash and getting concerned. I feel Sheikh Turki and his crew shortly realized it’s rather a lot more durable than it appears. They got here to me to work out a deal the place we run the enterprise.“
Dana White’s not-so-new frontier in boxing.
Regardless of being an open critic of how boxing is run at instances, particularly in opposition to the likes of boxing legend and promoter Oscar De La Hoya, Dana White himself has already dipped his toes within the boxing world. His present undertaking is increase Irish Fighter Callum Walsh and even internet hosting some lesser boxing promotions on UFC Battle Move.
Nonetheless, Dana White continues to be a combat promoter at coronary heart, and the flexibility to work with a person like Turki Alalshikh, who has been making huge enhancements to boxing, equivalent to enhancing the undercards of boxing occasions and making huge matchups occur, is an extremely essential enchancment for boxing that couldn’t have come sooner. Now, with Dana White on board, who is aware of what the longer term could maintain?
