Dani White revealed that she plans to lead a new one who promoted a boxing league, started with Turks Alalshikh. White says he will build it from the foundation, using the UFC model as his draft for success.
The days will sign fighters in the league, and they will compete and suffer defeats as the UFC fighters do. He says he will get rid of five different sanctioned bodies and just have them for his league. It will be impossible to create a monopoly In boxing where only one company operates in isolation. He does not work in other companies and will not work in boxing.
Career risks
Fighters excluded from this boxing league like a clicker will continue to monitor four sanctioning bodies, still fighting for a giveaway and sign with the popular promoters now leading sports.
Being in a league in which a few quality fighters are repeatedly facing strenuous struggles, they are likely to shorten their career. Imagine fighters like David Benavidez and David Morrell competing four or five times against each other in the box league that follows the UFC model.
Both of their careers will be shortened for the punishment they serve. Yes, the party is for fans, but there will be hell for the fighters who spent through repeated difficult struggles. Criminal boxers are much stronger than in the UFC. If I were a boxer, I wouldn’t want to be in the league where I always fought the “best” every time. You can’t do that in boxing without your career to finish quickly.
“People want to see big struggles. Boxing has become this thing you have to be undefeated for people to take care of you. It will all disappear,” Dana White said ESPN -OV first takingTalking about his new partnership with Turks Alalshikh to create a boxing league.
“There are a lot of guys that we look at what will be on this list that have a lot of about. Everyone will fight each other, and what people want to see are great struggles. They want to know who is the best in the world.”
Is this “best”?
If Dana White and Turks fighters sign this new boxer league, they will only fight other guys on that list, how will they prove that they are “The best in the world?“Not the best. All they really do is prove that they are the best in this league with a limited number of fighters competing. It seems that what the Turks do now is doing better, choosing great fighters, signing them on short contracts and setting convincing struggles. You don’t need an isolated league to do things like that.
It’s like an AFL that lasted separately from the NFL from 1960 to 1970. The only time the teams from two leagues played each other were in Super Bowl. During the season you have no teams from AFL playing NFL teams until they joined in 1970. Creating a boxer league in which fighters compete only against other fighters in that league. The idea does not work better than the current situation in sports.
“I spend simple things, like the best fight best,” White said. “There is a lot of talent we are currently looking at about. No one knows about. What I would like to do is build this thing from the foundation as we did with the UFC. When we originally bought the UFC, we had twelve contracts. You all started to fit everything. When you get to the first five, you can’t deny who the best five guys in the world are and everyone is fighting to see him.”
How can the first five in the small league be called the best in the world when you talk about a limited pool of fighters? White says he started 12 and claims that the first five were the best in the world? What is he talking about? They are just the best in that small business, but not in the world. With this boxer league, if you only compete against other fighters in the league, you cannot call them the best.
The way things went to the current system are the fighters of Top Rank, Matchroom, Golden Boy and PBC often focused on setting up the fights with the boys within that promotional company. It was like four or five different leagues. This new league with Dan White and Turks, it’s just more of the same thing we saw. The only difference is that the Turks have more money to play to lure good fighters. If just competing with a limited number of guys inside that league, it won’t be as interesting as it is now.
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Last time updated 03/05/2025
