Former boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya has taken purpose at UFC CEO Dana White in a heated rant. One of the vital heated rivalries in fight sports activities is not between two fighters, however between the bosses of UFC and Golden Boy Promotions.
The stress and the animosity between De La Hoya and White has been rising for fairly a while now. Each CEOs have been concerned in lots of heated arguments on a number of events, and it seems that there isn’t a signal of issues cooling down in any respect.
De La Hoya claims that the rift between the pair started because of his curiosity in entering into MMA as a promoter. The boxing legend has been profitable with Golden Boy Promotions and tried to duplicate that in Blended Martial Arts.
The 51-year-old promoter’s curiosity in MMA noticed him e book the trilogy bout between Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz in 2018 for his first occasion. The competition was closely criticised by many, together with White, who expressed his displeasure attributable to ‘The Iceman’ being previous his prime.
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De La Hoya Unloaded on the UFC CEO
The promoter did not maintain again
In the newest phase of their ongoing rivalry, De La Hoya unloaded on White whereas chatting with Shannon Sharpe on his podcast.
“Yeah, we had been cool. After I first considered entering into MMA, I strongly felt that he simply wished to bury me, not have competitors. He began speaking shit about me. What does he discuss? The coke and the pantyhose? So what? 15 years in the past, so what? And I don’t have associates. It’s absurd as a result of I don’t even give it some thought.”
De La Hoya additionally took purpose at a current incident involving White. Final 12 months, a video emerged of the UFC president in a bodily altercation along with his spouse throughout an argument on vacation in Mexico.
He later apologised, however De La Hoya used the incident to take a jibe at White when discussing their rift: “We’re in numerous sports activities, he does his factor, I do my factor. Simply because I wished to start out a bit competitors, he will get all ‘let me scream louder.’
“When a man slaps his spouse in public, you understand when his mother writes a e book about him saying that he’s a douche, his personal mother? That’s all I’ve to say. I don’t need to say something extra.”
Dana White’s All-time Rant Geared toward De La Hoya
The UFC boss did not maintain again
In 2021, White launched into a close to 16-minute rant about De La Hoya when requested about his newest explosive change with the previous champion boxer. The boxing promoter criticised UFC fighter pay in a put up despatched to Alexander Volkanovski after UFC 266.
White responded with what he vowed can be his remaining salvo of their ongoing confrontation. “He’s a mendacity, two-faced, hypocritical sack of sh**— and I hate him a lot that I like to show that he’s a mendacity, hypocritical, two-faced piece of sh**,” he instructed reporters.
He started by highlighting De Le Hoya’s 2018 foray into selling MMA with a Golden Boy card between Liddell and Ortiz. The UFC boss learn off an inventory of publicly accessible info concerning the salaries of the fighters who competed on that card.
“All the previous UFC fighters who had been on his card made extra of their final [UFC] bout than they did for his occasion,” White mentioned.
“Most of them made extra in a number of or all of their UFC bouts, proper? So 17 of the 22 fighters received lower than the beginning compensation within the UFC, the blokes who fought on his MMA card. Now, the place I’m going with that is this asshole, each time he opens his mouth, acts like, No. 1, ‘Oh, you’re not paying your fighters. Why are the fighters not being paid?’ And he acts like when he places on an occasion, like he pays greater than we do or one thing.
“Yeah, you pay f****** Canelo [Alvarez] a sh**load of cash, who you couldn’t even maintain on to, you couldn’t even preserve. He f****** left you too, proper? How about this: I’ve 650 fighters below contract. He had f****** one which mattered. He couldn’t preserve him. Twelve of the 22 fighters received compensated lower than what we pay youngsters on the Contender Sequence.”
