Sauerland on Dana White's denial: 'Maybe it's in his spam' as $10m offer gets a 28-day limit
The Misfits boss showed iFL TV the email, says Eddie Hearn is in on the 6-round fight and offers to give the money to charity if it is held in a gym.
Kalle Sauerland says Dana White has received Misfits' $10 million offer to box Eddie Hearn, and suggested it may have gone to the UFC CEO's spam folder.
Asked by iFL TV about White saying he had not received the offer, the Misfits Boxing boss said: "Maybe it's in his spam. I don't know. I don't want to say he's lying ... but he has received an offer."
He then set out the terms. "The offer is $10 million. It's 6 rounds. It's 2-minute rounds. We'll discuss gloves, 14-ounce, 16-ounce, we can discuss that," he said.
Sauerland said Hearn has agreed to it. "Eddie said he's in," he said. "Which I must admit I was quite surprised, but he's there." If the fight is in a gym and White does not want the money, he said: "I'll put it in a charity." He suggested holding it at Stonebridge Boxing Club, which Misfits supports.
Sauerland then showed the email on his phone to the iFL TV crew, and a voice off camera read out how it starts: "Dear Dana." He called it a standard offer, with "2 business class flights and 1 economy flight and reasonable hotel arrangements", and added: "But I will throw the jet in on top."
"Offer's still on the table for, let's call it, 28 days," he said. He will not raise it: "I'm not upping it, no, because I'm gonna get problems with Hearn then, aren't I? Because I've agreed a deal with him."
White has said Misfits did not send him an offer, though he had heard of it, and told Hearn to pick a gym in London if he wants to fight him. Sauerland had already said White had the offer in writing.
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