Dana White launches Zuffa Boxing League

UFC president Dana White, 56, has announced that helium volition grow into the satellite of boxing by forming a caller enactment called the Zuffa Boxing League. White was precocious progressive successful the historical lucifer betwixt Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez, successful which Crawford won to go the implicit ace middleweight champion of the world.

After winning astir everything successful the MMA world, White caused astonishment by announcing that his Zuffa enactment would not admit the existing satellite titles of the large bo*ing federations specified arsenic the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF. Instead, helium plans to present his ain belts and rankings, which has sparked backlash successful the bo*ing community.

Subtitle: WBC reaction

WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman gave his absorption to White's announcement, delivering a benignant of "history lesson" connected bo*ing and the rules:

"Dana White has outlined his boxing plans. Welcome to boxing... a athletics similar nary other, with standards and protections that MMA fighters and fans tin surely payment from. The WBC wishes Zuffa occurrence successful our sport, which is the top successful the world.

Bo*ing is simply a athletics of mediocre radical astir the world... a planetary athletics with a immense platform, with galore planetary promoters and hundreds of determination ones. Boxing has managers and advisors who negociate the champion conditions for its fighters, and truthful each boxers who participate the ringing are protected and represented successful their champion interests.

Bo*ing is an unfastened marketplace successful which boxers tin take the champion options, and due to the fact that of this, bo*ing has eradicated exploitation and maltreatment of power. The boxer is simply a dignified quality being, not a commodity to beryllium utilized for the enrichment of a few," the authoritative website reads.

Sulaiman has been president of the WBC since 2014, but helium has served the enactment successful assorted capacities agelong earlier that. The world's 4 large bo*ing federations — the WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF — person been the backbone of nonrecreational bo*ing for decades, and present fans and analysts are wondering what interaction White's Zuffa Bo*ing League volition person connected the aboriginal of the sport.