Dana White says he did not negotiate the Cardiff deal for Fury vs Joshua

Asked who did, White replied: "Does it matter? Who gives a sh*t?" A reporter had put it to him that he did the deal for the location when the fight was heading to New York.

Dana White says he did not negotiate the deal that took Tyson Fury against Anthony Joshua to the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

At the Zuffa Boxing 11 post-fight press conference in London, a reporter reminded White that he had said he originally did the deal for the fight's location when it was moving to Madison Square Garden in New York, and asked whether Cardiff was the deal he had done.

"Yeah, interesting question," White said, before a pause of around 12 seconds. "Did I do the deal for Cardiff?... Is that the question?... Did I call and negotiate the deal?... No, I did not."

Asked who did, he said: "Does it matter? Who gives a sh*t?"

The answer matters to Eddie Hearn's side of the row. Hearn has said Joshua's contract requires the fight to be in the UK and rules out any promotional role for White and TKO, and in August, as the fight was reported to be heading to Madison Square Garden, he said White was "purporting to have the ability to stage the fight there". When Cardiff was announced on 24 September, the official release said The Ring and White "will collaborate to promote" it.

Every turn in the row is in our Dana White and Eddie Hearn timeline.

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