This past weekend saw another huge boxing event in collaboration with Riyadh Season with Wembley Stadium drawing in a huge crowd for Joshua vs Dubois.
Several days before, UFC President Dana White made the trip over to Ireland for Walsh vs. Runowski, a boxing event that was hosted on UFC Fight Pass amongst other major broadcasting platforms.
White spoke ahead of the event about whether he is finally going to fully make a move into boxing which has been teased for many years at this stage.
The sport is arguably the strongest it has been in a long time right now and could become even more exciting if the MMA leader’s CEO joins the conversation.
Teddy Atlas Says Dana White Could Have The Same Impact As Turki Alalshikh In Boxing
In a recent interview with Submission Radio, boxing expert Teddy Atlas said that he would welcome White into the sport with open arms.
He believes that the way that White has been able to build the UFC into what it is today is by executing one simple idea, giving the fans what they want.
This was missing from boxing for a long time until, as Atlas states, Turki Alalshikh and the Saudi Arabian General Entertainment Authority started to invest heavily in the sport.
For a long time, the biggest fights in boxing were held back by promoters not working together or negotiations that became stand-offs.
Atlas believes that White, like Alalshikh, would place the emphasis back on seeing the best fight the best whenever it is possible.
“I say come on in! Come on in! We need you! Turki Alalshikh has helped boxing tremendously by making fights that the promoters couldn’t make, they didn’t want to make… Dana White does that.
“He’s been doing that forever over at the UFC. Yeah I know it’s one guy in charge. ‘Oh but Teddy, he’s the dictator…’ Listen, if a dictator ain’t chopping heads off and he’s getting things done, sometimes maybe we can learn a little something. Maybe at least it gives us direction, it gives us rules, we could use rules in this world right now, we could use direction in this world right now.”
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