Teddy Atlas All For Dana White Coming into Boxing
Teddy Atlas appeared as a visitor on Submission Radio and he was requested about UFC CEO Dana White making his presence identified on the planet of boxing (h/t Bloody Elbow).
“I’d say come on in, come on in – we’d like you,” Atlas mentioned.
“Turki Alalshikh has helped boxing tremendously by making fights that the promoters couldn’t make or didn’t wish to make as a result of they didn’t personal each side, they didn’t management each side; they don’t wish to go throughout the road to share.
“The followers suffered and didn’t get the fights that they needed, the game suffered, the game was getting much less and fewer related… This sport shouldn’t be irrelevant, but it surely was changing into it as a result of the promotors with their networks [and] with their sugar daddies, they had been simply making fights to maintain their guys undefeated.”
White has pushed the “Zuffa Boxing” model since 2017. The branding first appeared within the buildup to the mega boxing battle between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
As of late, White has constructed a relationship with Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Normal Leisure Authority in Saudi Arabia. Alalshikh has performed a major function in placing collectively marquee boxing playing cards. It’s potential that Alalshikh was the reply in getting White to decide to getting into the world of boxing
