Dana White calls Eddie Hearn 'a bum' and tells him to 'pick the gym here in London'

The UFC CEO says he has "definitely not" been sent an offer to fight the Matchroom promoter, after Misfits' Kalle Sauerland said "Dana's had it in writing".

Dana White has called Eddie Hearn "a bum" and told the Matchroom promoter to choose a gym in London if he wants to fight him.

"If Eddie Hearn wants to fight, he can pick the gym here in London," White said, speaking to media in London. "We'll go down to the f***ing gym, me and him, and we can f***ing do it."

The UFC CEO said nobody had put an offer to him. "They have definitely not sent me an offer, but I've heard of this," he said.

Misfits Boxing's Kalle Sauerland has said otherwise. He told iFL TV that "Dana's had it in writing", that talks with Hearn were at "an advanced stage" and that the offer is now "a $10 million straight offer".

White pointed to his age and his own time in boxing. "I'm 57 years old, right? The last time I boxed was when I was 38, when I was going to fight Tito Ortiz, right?" he said. "Eddie Hearn's a bum. He's never boxed, ever, okay? He might have f***ed around the gym or done whatever."

He brought up Mike Tyson's fight with Jake Paul. "Now, Mike Tyson was 58 or 59 when he fought Jake Paul," White said. "So a bum who's never done anything and a guy who is a never-was, what kind of a fight do you think that would be and how that would look and why people would want to even f***ing waste one second?"

Hearn has said he wants a "back-and-forth debate" with White at the press conference for Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua, which is scheduled for 11 December at Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

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