Eddie Hearn: Dana White is 'having a disaster' and 'looks like he's under a lot of pressure'

The Matchroom boss told Fight Hub TV that White once praised his company and is now 'diminishing' it, and said the two swapped texts two or three weeks ago.

Eddie Hearn says Dana White is now "diminishing" Matchroom, the company Hearn calls "essentially my life", after once praising it.

Speaking to Fight Hub TV in Carson, California, the Matchroom boss said: "All I ever do is answer questions on Dana. I never come out and just start randomly talking about him, but he's having a disaster." He added: "I actually thought it would be quite tricky, but he just doesn't seem to know what he's talking about or what he's doing." White, he said, "looks like he's under a lot of pressure".

"You ask him a tough question, he'll tell you to f*ck off," Hearn said. Answering questions, he said, is "something that you have to do in boxing. I don't think that's something he really wants to do."

Hearn said the two were never close but had a good relationship before White came into boxing, and that White told him, and said in interviews, "Eddie Hearn is the boxing guy". Then, Hearn said, White came into boxing and said "all these guys are useless". "Now he's kind of diminishing my company, which is essentially my life," Hearn said. He added: "I just don't like the way he's kind of had the arrogance to belittle me, my company, and what we do."

Hearn said he agreed when he was asked whether he would have a meeting with White, "about 2 or 3 weeks ago". "I texted him, he replied, and we were trying to work something out," he said. They did not get together.

White, who runs Zuffa Boxing, has told Hearn to pick a gym in London if he wants to fight him, and has said he did not receive Misfits Boxing's $10 million offer for the pair to box, which Kalle Sauerland says Hearn has agreed to: Sauerland on Dana White's denial: 'Maybe it's in his spam'. Hearn told Fight Hub TV he would rather the fight was seen, and offered to give "5 million to charity", to the Ex-Boxers Association and grassroots boxing in the UK, if White did the same in America.

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