Dana White’s potential move into boxing has been greeted with glee by Teddy Atlas.
The renowned trainer is most famous for assisting Cus D’Amato when Mike Tyson was a teenage prodigy, but he’s also worked with world champions Tim Bradley, Michael Moorer and Barry McGuigan.
Lately, he’s become known as one of the best commentators in the sport.
Atlas is delighted to hear that the UFC boss wants to enter the boxing world.
White is currently working with Irish prospect Callum Walsh, but he recently confirmed that he is planning a much bigger foray into the sport very soon.
“Come on in, come on in. We need you,” Atlas said when the idea of White promoting boxing bouts was brought up during an interview with Submission Radio.
Atlas credits Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh with saving the sport, but still thinks there’s work to do and White is the perfect person to take things to the next level.
He added: “Turki has helped boxing tremendously by making fights that the promoters couldn’t make.
“They didn’t want to make it because they didn’t own both sides. They didn’t control both sides. They didn’t control both sides. They didn’t want to go across the street and share.
“So the fans suffered, didn’t get the fights they wanted, the sport suffered.
“The sport was getting less and less relevant. This sport is the longest sport in the history of sports. You go, they find dwellings of guys throwing punches on caves 2000 years ago.
“This sport shouldn’t be irrelevant, but it was becoming covenant because the promoters, with the networks, with their sugar daddies, they were just they were just making the fights to keep their guys undefeated, to get to the next big fight. A against B non-competitive fights.
“Every once in a while, they threw you a bone. It wasn’t enough.
“The fans were starving. And then Turki Al-Sheikh came along from Saudi with the money. And in the last year he’s made fights that the fans want the sport needs.
“Dana White, Teddy Atlas would have open arms because he’d make the fights that you need to make.”
White has good relationships with Eddie Hearn, Frank Warren and a bunch of big-time players that would make his transition to boxing easy.
However, he’s made it clear he won’t be working with Bob Arum or Todd Duboef after he recently branded the pair ‘pieces of s***’.
Atlas, like many fans, will be impatiently waiting for an official announcement about White’s move into boxing.
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