Is Dana White's Contract Up or What?
He's the greatest fight promoter of his generation, so why isn't he doing his best work?
Dana White, do you want to be a fucking fight promoter?
Where’s the energy? Where’s the zest? Is it that the treatments you’ve been getting from your personal “biohacker”, Gary Brecka, stopped working?
Or is it that your UFC contract is coming up and you’re not sure you want to keep doing what you’re doing?
Do you no longer wake up with a list of promoters you want to put on the office tombstone?
It’s put up or shut up time, Dana.
Unless there’s been a new deal done that hasn’t been reported on, your deal with Endeavor WME Group is up for renewal early next year, shouldn’t you be killing it now so you can get a bigger slice of the cake in your new contract?
Does Dana White even want to stay on board with TKO?
After 25 years of promoting Mixed Martial Arts for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, you’re finally breaking into boxing, your long-stated dream.
And you’re coming in at the top, promoting one of the biggest bouts of the decade: Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford.
TKO sugar daddy Turki Alalshikh, the Chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Fund, put the fight together and brought TKO in to help with promotion.
And Turki needs the help, badly.
Saving Turki’s bacon
According to Shaquille O’Neal, Alalshikh has lost money on every boxing card he’s promoted to date.
You read that right.