#zuffa-boxing

#zuffa-boxing

These guys, very smart, very powerful. I don't think they know what they're doing in boxing. I think they're just kind of like, 'Sign him, sign him. Oh, we need some welterweights.' When they started the whole thing, it was this league. The new league for boxing. Where is the league? We're six months in. And all we've seen is five shows with a load of randoms on it.

In the fourth Zuffa Boxing event the promotion put on the first championship fight in their history and they featured their first big signee, the undefeated IBF and Ring cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia. Opposing Opetaia for the landmark bout is Brandon "Bulletproof" Glanton, a 21-3 professional fighting out of Riverside, California.

Now the Saudis have turned to TKO Group Holdings and Dana White to oversee Zuffa Boxing a newly created vehicle designed to expand the footprint of its equity partners in the United States. Zuffa Boxing is taking a far less generous approach toward fighters than Sheikh did. That's evidenced by the contract that many of the fighters being recruited by Zuffa are being asked to sign.