Reduced race and limited competence: Hidden costs of the Dana White’s UFC style UFC style.

Dana White revealed how she plans to lead the new TKO box promotion league that started with Turki Alralikh. White says he will build it from the base, using the UFC model as a model to succeed.

Dana will sign the fighters in the league and will compete and suffer defeats as the fighters do at the UFC. He says they will be handed over from the five different sanctioning bodies and will only have one for their league. Will be impossible to create a monopoly in the boxing where only one company works in isolation. It does not work in other companies and will not work in boxing.

Race shortening risks

The fighters excluded from this boxing league as clicks will still follow the four sanctioning bodies, they will still fight in Dazn and will be signed with the popular promoters who now do sports.

Being in a league where a good handful of quality fighters repeatedly confronts unpleasant struggles, will probably reduce their races. Imagine fighters like David Benavidez and David Morrell competing four or five times against each other in a boxing league that follows the UFC model.

The two races will be shortened due to the punishment they endure. Yes, it is entertainment for the fans, but it will be a hell for fighters to get harsh problems. The punishment boxers are much more serious than at the UFC. If I were a boxer, I would not want to be in a league where I always struggled “the best” every time.

“People want to see great fights. Boxing has become this thing that you need to have dedicated to people who worry. All this will disappear, “said Dana White to First SPN DamSpeaking of his new association with Turki Alshikh to create a boxing league.

“There are many guys who are watching that they will be on this list that many O. will all fight with each other, and what people want to see is a great fight. They want to know who is the best in the world.”

Is this “better”?

If the fighters Dana White and Turki sign this new boxing league, they will only fight against other boys on this list, as they will show that they are “The best in the world?“It’s not the best. All they really do is show that they are the best in this league with the limited number of combatants competing. It seems that what Turki does now works better, choosing great fighters, signing them in short contracts and establishing convincing fights. You don’t need an isolated league to do things like that.

It is as with the TAP that ran separately from the NFL from 1960 to 1970. The only times that the teams of the two leagues played were found in the Super Bowl. During the season, you do not have the TAP teams playing the NFL teams until they merged in 1970. Creating a boxing league where the fighters compete only against other fighters in this league is limiting. The idea does not work better than the current situation of sport.

“I’m implementing simple things, like the best struggle,” White said. “ There is a lot of talent we are looking at right now that no one knows. What I would like to do is build this thing from the base as we did with the UFC.When we originally bought the UFC, we had twelve contracts.You have begun to adapt to everyone.When you reach the top five places, you cannot deny who the five best boys in the world are to see who is the world champion.

How can you call the top five places in a small league the best in the world when you talk about a limited pool of fighters? White says he started with 12, and does he claim that the top five were the best in the world? What is he talking about? They are only the best in this small company, but not the world. With this boxing league, if they will only compete against other fighters in the league, you can’t call them better.

The way things have been in the current system is the fighters with the first rank, the Matchroom, the Golden Boy and the PBC have often focused on establishing struggles with boys within this promotional company. Have been like four or five different leagues. This new league with Dana White and Turki is more than the same as we have been seeing. The only difference is that Turki has more money to play to attract good fighters. If they will only compete with a limited number of boys within this league, it will not be as interesting as now.

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– Turki Alshikh (@turki_alhikh) March 5, 2025