Dana White and Turki Alalshikh boxing collaboration put on blast by Oscar De La Hoya: “No one gonna fight for $750k”

Oscar De La Hoya rekindles beef with three-minute rant over Dana White and his minimum-pay UFC-style boxing league with Turki Alalshikh.

Dana White and Turki Alalshikh boxing collaboration put on blast by Oscar De La Hoya: “No one gonna fight for $750k”

Oscar De La Hoya slams Dana White and UFC boxing league with Turki Alalshikh (Source: IMAGO/X)

Oscar De La Hoya and UFC CEO Dana White have been a thorn in each other’s sight for far too long. De La Hoya has often had harsh critiques on UFC’s set-in-stone $50k performance bonus and PPV purses. Now, he had more scope to do so as Saudi Boxing Chief Turki Alalshikh ponied up with White for a boxing league. It has been the biggest news on the combat sports spectrum for a while now.

The MMA supremo has teamed up with Turki Alalshikh in order to establish TKO Boxing as the best. He is who Dana White often credited for being the modern saving grace of boxing and the reason for multiple mega cards. White himself gets billed on similar characteristics for making meaningful matches over at UFC. However, Oscar De La Hoya disagreed on the UFC-style boxing league pay.

Speaking of scum bags, everyone is asking me for my opinion on Dana White trying to enter the boxing space again…After collecting as much information as possible, I’m finally ready to answer. Here’s the truth; you can’t run a boxing organization when you don’t have any fighters…What else do we know: TKO’s supposed fighter pay / salaries were leaked a few weeks ago. If these are real, sh*t—no PPV fighter will fight for $750,000 dollars. You’re telling me the likes of Canelo Alvarez and Ryan Garcia will agree to that pay cut. NO.

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The TKO-powered boxing league will go for a $5,000 signing bonus/$50,000 (Rank 5-10), $125,000 (3-4), and so on up to $750,000 champion payouts. Dana White told Adam Catterall that it’s a net-profit participation payout instead of a few top-heavy ones making bucketloads in millions. ‘Golden Boy’ Oscar De La Hoya dropped verbal bombs, saying TKO doesn’t have boxers, and real boxers won’t agree to such payouts!

It’s a sentiment that’s been going around about the boxing league pay scale. With just the bevy of English fans streaming on DAZN PPV, TNT Sports Box Office, and Sky Sports Box Office, Ex-WBC lineal Tyson Fury’s first undisputed clash summed up to $50 million in revenue, with $40 million in sponsorship. Fury alone banked £45 million more with his 70-30 contractual split; spoils that UFC has never seen.

Oscar De La Hoya says Dana White’s UFC boxing league dream won’t go any further from ground up

Oscar De La Hoya has often riled up the boxing pays better than UFC thread many a times. Even recently, he did just the same. The new UFC-Saudi GEA boxing league with Turki Alalshikh makes it under his purview to pitch in on such things. Dana White has said he would not align with the current model or the four sanctioning bodies. However, somewhere along the way, stuff ought to collide.

Oscar De La Hoya thinks Dana White's boxing dream won't succeed
Oscar De La Hoya thinks Dana White’s boxing dream won’t succeed (Source: X)

Dana White has tried to get into boxing before, as well. He and TKO have put boxing cards on Fight Pass telecasts not too long ago. Even though his UFC boxing league were not to have his fighters, it created enough buzz for fighters to pitch in. But with the structural pay restrictions and all, De La Hoya does not see this venture thriving in the long run.

If these numbers are real, the UFC fighters will be so pi**ed —– that the TKO fighters are getting paid so much more than they are. UFC fighters are already disgusted with how little they get paid…Dana White has tried to get into the boxing space several times and failed. Remember Zuffa? That never even got off the ground. When Dana doesn’t have the funding and business brains like the Fertittas and Turki Al-Sheikh, he always fails.

Oscar De La Hoya further said

As a last bit of spice, De La Hoya also defamed his old rival, alluding to the age-old fact of White’s mother’s book about him. As such, this new venture had been quite the hot topic. It is expected to remain so and garner such conversations for a whole more.

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