September 24, 2024 11: 31 pm ET
LAS VEGAS – In 2017, Dana White printed a Zuffa Boxing teeshirt and teased his entry into the world of boxing, however public promo of the endeavor gradually fizzled out and the t-shirt might have turned to the bottom of the drawer.
In the years that followed when asked about crossover, White typically highlighted his gripes with boxing and the method he saw the sport run.
In 2024, White may be breaking out the t-shirt onceagain, even if there are a coupleof wrinkles on it.
Heavily included as “the HBO” (as he calls himself) of increasing young Irish fighter Callum Walsh, White definitively stated, “I’m in,” throughout a pre-fight Q&A on Thursday in Dublin.
“Every time I get on the phone with these guys, I go, ‘Am I out of my f*cking mind?’” White informed pressreporters, consistingof MMA Junkie, after Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Series73 “It’s simply… But I believe certainly now is the time, or I would’ve done it (in 2017). I was kicking around. I was even talking about Anthony Joshua at one time and things like that. I’m grateful I pumped the brakes and we waited. Everything is about timing. Is now the time? We’re going to discover out.”
Many specifics White kept close to his chest. There was not detailing of the “who,” “when,” and “where.” But the UFC CEO shed a little more light on the “what” and the “how” as he spoke to pressreporters at the UFC Apex.
“I have a strategy,” White stated. “I’m going to carryout that strategy and we’ll see how that works. … People haveactually been talking about the death of boxing for 30 years and we’re still here talking about boxing right now. I have constantly had an concept of how I idea it must be done. I wear’t understand if that’s possible, however we’re going to discover out. I’m coming in weapons blazing.”
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