Derek Chisora on Dana White changing boxing: "This game has been here before he was born"
Chisora told iFL TV he likes White but not his talk of changing the sport, and that people who say they want to change boxing are "full of s***".
Derek Chisora says Dana White will not change boxing, however much money he spends trying.
Asked by iFL TV about the row between White and Eddie Hearn over Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua, Chisora said he had enjoyed it: "We realised there's somebody out there who can get under his skin, and that's Dana White."
"Listen, do I like Dana? I like Dana, but I don't like what he says. He's gonna come and change the game. This game has been here before he was born, and the game will be here when he's gone," Chisora said. "We cannot change boxing. We love the corruption in boxing. We love the scumbags in boxing."
He said boxing "belongs to the people", and that "when people say they want to change boxing, they're full of s***".
Chisora did have one request for White's Zuffa Boxing shows: ring girls. "I went to the Zuffa show, there's no ring girls," he said.
White and Hearn have traded blows all week, with White saying "I'll see you in Wales" and Hearn saying White can only be involved "if I let them". Fury and Joshua meet in Cardiff on 11 December.
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