Pot Shot: Dana White knows MMA more than Anybody, says why Boxing isn’t Investing back into the Sport

Published on: 29th December, 2008

Pot Shot: Dana White knows MMA more than Anybody, says why Boxing isn't Investing back into the Sport  | read this item

Dana on MMA and Boxing

As we all know UFC President Dana White isn’t one to hold his tongue when he has something to say and in an article with the Long Beach Press Telegram, White says that promoters in the MMA business like EliteXC don’t know what they are doing and can tell when they are going to do something wrong.

This is what White had to say about other MMA promoters:

“The reason I could see what was ahead for EliteXC was because nobody in this (freaking) planet knows this business better than I do. I built this (successful) business. Not from the ground up from beyond the basement up…We were so far underground and in the hole when we bought it. I brought this thing back from death. I know this business better than anybody does. I can sit back and see all the mistakes these guys make. I know exactly what they are going to do and I know exactly what is going to go wrong. I have been there and done that. I built (this) industry.” said White.

White also had this to say about Oscar De La Hoya and his Golden Boy Boxing promotion as well as the sport of Boxing itself:

“I used (boxing) as the blueprint of what not to do. Boxing doesn’t do what I would do if I was running one of these cards…When De La Hoya and Mayweather had their pay-per-view with over 1 million buys, he could have stacked that card with all the talent Golden Boy has. You know why he didn’t? He didn’t want to give up the money. Nobody in boxing is willing to invest money back into boxing’s future. We do in the UFC. The money that we make we invest back into the business. We use it to help the grow the sport. Nobody in boxing is willing to do that. And because of that, in my opinion, they have no reason to sit around and (cry) their sport is dying. A lot of people love that De La Hoya is a fighter and the promoter but thing is, it leaves you short-sighted. And he only cares about himself. He knows he gets the pay-per-views when he fights but he doesn’t stack the card with fights that will build future fights. You have to invest in a company and De La Hoya is not willing to do that.”

Fan Question: do you feel that Dana White is absolutely right about his comments on both subjects?

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