Overview
- At the UFC London post-fight press conference, White ruled out any current UFC fighter boxing under UFC or Zuffa Boxing, saying there is “no way in hell.”
- He dismissed crossover events as “not what we do,” stressing his focus on elite MMA matchups rather than one-off spectacles with boxers.
- White cited the 2017 McGregor–Mayweather bout as a one-time, financially huge exception he does not intend to repeat.
- Boxing ambitions voiced by Alex Pereira, Ilia Topuria, and Sean O’Malley will not be staged on UFC-backed cards, as White said other promoters can handle such fights.
- Zuffa Boxing has launched with Callum Walsh vs. Carlos Ocampo at the Meta Apex, but White made clear it will not host UFC star crossovers and even floated Jai Opetaia vs. Oleksandr Usyk as the kind of matchup he prefers.