Eddie Hearn unleashes fresh tirade at Dana White - 'Disgrace'
Eddie Hearn has branded Tom Aspinall's UFC contract 'disgraceful' as he upped the ante in his war of words with Dana White.
Hearn and White have been at loggerheadssince the UFC CEO made his move into boxing earlier this year. White signed Hearn's former fighter Conor Benn on a $15million one- fight deal before Hearn signed UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall to his new talent agency.
And Hearn has spoken out about Aspinall's deal with the MMA promotion. “I’m going to bite my tongue for now a little bit,” he said. "But what I will tell you is that his contract is a f***ing disgrace, a disgrace! I cannot believe the money that he is on when you look at the commercial revenue that his fight would generate.”
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Hearn, who believes UFC fighters will revolt after Benn's deal, added: “I look at their business at the moment and it’s in complete turmoil. Not just necessarily Zuffa, but TKO and UFC. I’ve never seen the UFC weaker, I’ve never seen it at breaking point. I’ve never seen fighters looking to almost start a revolution and a fighter’s union to almost boycott the organisation.
“What TKO enters the boxing space has done to them is just highlight the problem of their UFC business and it done it very quickly. They are not going to be making money out of boxing for a long, long time and they are jeopardising their business, which is going to affect their numbers, and it could affect their share price and everything moving forward.
“In boxing, you have to be up for the fight every single day. What you can’t do is go away and do a little bit of [Power} Slap and do a little bit of UFC. I look at body language [of White] and all I see is stress. Let me tell you, the stress of boxing is f***ing horrendous."