After in the present day’s preliminary announcement of a brand new boxing promotion firm that may create a boxing league, Dana White — who will run the corporate — speaks about their plans going ahead together with some excerpts from Alalshikh himself. Right here’s what they needed to say about rebuilding the game as we all know it.
White on his plans for brand spanking new boxing league
“There’s loads of younger expertise on the market, up-and-coming expertise that folks don’t learn about, and we’re going to stack playing cards from the primary struggle of the night time to the principle occasion which are full of good fights. You’re going to see loads of guys who’re undefeated combating their approach as much as win the world title.
“My massive beef with boxing has at all times been no person has ever invested again into the game, but you’ve got all these promoters who take, take, take and by no means reinvest. No person within the historical past of the game has invested extra money into boxing in such a brief period of time as Turki has.
“Now that we’ve bought the deal finished, what we do now’s begin to construct the infrastructure. We’ve bought to construct a crew, then we’ve got to exit and get a rights deal. Whoever we find yourself doing a take care of we are able to construction this factor to regardless of the community wants. We are able to placed on as many fights as they need.
“After we began the UFC they’d like 12 contracts…We’re going to have Olympians, we’re going to have guys which are already undefeated on the market and have established data, plus Turki has loads of commitments for among the massive fights with a few of they guys which are on the market proper now. There’s loads of enjoyable, thrilling fights to make on the market, and you understand how I run reveals — the stay occasions will all change, it will likely be significantly better than something you’ve ever seen earlier than.
“You gained’t have one struggle after which a podcast occurs, after which one other struggle occurs 45 minutes later and also you see 4 fights in six hours. All of that stuff goes to alter once we begin working the present”
Alalshikh on partnering with White to run the corporate
“Dana, he have very massive expertise, he have the machine of TKO and he’s bulldozer. He’ll go and clear the way in which and we’re behind him. I give him yesterday the flag and the headache on the similar time, and I say to him ‘come on, clear the sector.’”
Whyte on whether or not we would see a few of his UFC fighters crossover to boxing beneath this new endeavor
“No, by no means. I feel there are (UFC) guys that need to field however I actually don’t need to see any of that. I feel we’ll maintain the boxing guys in boxing and the MMA guys in MMA.
“What we care about is discovering the younger, up-and-coming expertise and constructing these fights as much as discover out who’s one of the best is in every weight class, and there gained’t be six completely different champions in every weight class. There will probably be one. You’ll know who one of the best heavyweight is, one of the best gentle heavyweight is…individuals will really know.”
Alalshikh on his imaginative and prescient for the path of the corporate
“We care about you, the younger era. Once I got here to boxing I had loads of research, the common [age] of the followers grew to become 40+. The rationale, nobody need to take the danger within the massive fights, as Dana stated, lengthy, lengthy occasion, completely different platform to see the occasion[s], no massive fights — for that, the younger era doesn’t care.
“Now we’re focusing rather a lot, on the similar time — additionally with UFC — [at] the identical time we would like video video games, we would like animation, we would like motion pictures, we would like loads of issues, merchandise. Numerous issues will occur. And with the connection with TKO, they’ve the expertise, and the connection with [Dana White], this man constructed franchise from scratch. We’ll [succeed].”
White on the primary deliberate occasion they’ll maintain on September 12
“When it’s time to announce, we’ve got a large struggle — actually a large struggle that solely this man [Alalashikh] might make occur. This man is the one man that may make a struggle like this occur. We’ll announce it once we’re able to however [Alalshikh] has introduced boxing again, that is Day 1, we’re making our announcement and we’re going to start out constructing this sport again up from floor zero.”
