Overview
- At the UFC 326 post-fight press conference, White said Hearn can fly to Las Vegas to box him at the UFC’s Meta Apex facility.
- White called the idea both serious and a joke, noting he is 56, recalling his failed Tito Ortiz preparation, and saying such a bout would belong as the event’s first prelim out of respect for real fighters.
- Hearn publicly accepted in an iFL TV interview and suggested platforms like Netflix or DAZN would pay heavily for the spectacle.
- Coverage cautioned that a White–Hearn boxing match remains unlikely to happen despite the public challenge and response.
- The feud has intensified with Zuffa Boxing’s aggressive moves, including a reported $15 million one-fight deal for Conor Benn, Hearn’s signing of UFC champion Tom Aspinall to his talent agency, and friction over White’s push to alter the Muhammad Ali Act.