On Tuesday during the Jim Rome show, Dana White expressed interest in branching out in boxing after the success of the Connor McGregor/Floyd Mayweather fight. White believes that the UFC could become a huge player on the market in the boxing circuit, the same way it has for mixed martial arts.
Many people questioned whether Dana White was serious or not and White reinstated that his stance on branching out into boxing someday.
“I just know how good we are at what we do, and I know we’re better than pretty much everybody else out there,” White said. “I think that the guys who are involved in boxing, the fighters, would enjoy being under this umbrella and fighting for us, and yeah, I do think would could do it better than everybody else does. So what the hell, why not give it a shot?”
White believes "100 percent" that professional boxers would be better served competing under the UFC boxing banner than with veteran promoters such as Top Rank or Golden Boy Promotions. He cites the UFC's track record when it comes to combat sports and the recent creation of the UFC Performace Institute.
“We’re the best,” White said. “We’re the best at what we do. We think about the future. If you look at this facility that we’re in now (the UFC Performance Institute), a state-of-the-art facility with every piece of equipment you can think about as far as recovery, getting stronger. We have a restaurant here that they eat at everyday for free, costs nothing for the fighters to come here and do all this stuff. Plus, we have a physical therapy center where all the fighters can come in and get physical therapy for free.
“On top of, I think we do our events better than they do, our production is better than the production that’s out there. I think everything in this business that you could possibly do, we do better, and we have health insurance for our fighters.”