There is no way it was a legit 1 fight 15m deal to fight Prograis on a co main I said back then he must have agreed a longer deal. They had this all planned.
Conor Benn just signed a new multi-fight, multi-year deal with Dana White's Zuffa Boxing. He initially left Matchroom back in February for a one-fight deal with Zuffa (where he fought Regis Prograis), but apparently, that went well enough that they’ve now locked him in for five fights over the next two and a half years.
eddie got the 2 eubank fights out of benn
im sure eddie took a hit on the failed fight & then put in some effort on benns behalf over the 2 years or whatever
zuffa have given boxers more options now if they have a profile already it seems so its business at the end of the day
Conor Benn just signed a new multi-fight, multi-year deal with Dana White's Zuffa Boxing. He initially left Matchroom back in February for a one-fight deal with Zuffa (where he fought Regis Prograis), but apparently, that went well enough that they’ve now locked him in for five fights over the next two and a half years. I saw the announcement on IG too while I was waiting for my car to get serviced. I was mindlessly scrolling and reading Globe Gazette reviews trying to help my dad with a subscription issue when the boxing news popped up on my feed. Benn says he's returning to 147 pounds and wants the winner of Barrios vs Garcia.
Works when you have a closed system like UFC where fighters have to be invited and once they sign they can't fight for anyone but UFC, alot more moving parts in boxing and free reign.
I'm quite sure this is, or at leas was their plan.
Turki said on the media launch he wants to "take out all other promoters in boxing".
How would they legitimize their fighters if their fighters don't fight and beat world champions or fighters at least close to that level?
Yeah I agree but that's just what they said, they said when they did their whole media launch that they "won't be working with other promoters and won't be recognizing the sanctioning body belts"
I think their whole thing was to make Zuffa the boxing version of the UFC where they have their own solo belt and everyone fights under that banner.
They seem to be aborting that. Who knows.
5 fight deal according to Dana White.
The "one fight deal" was definitely a front load so Eddie couldn't match it :lol1:
No clue how this will work, he's "signed to Zuffa" but will he actually fight on Zuffa cards? Doesn't seem like it and he's talking about fighting Garcia for the WBC but Zuffa don't want to work the the other orgs they said?
Not making much sense
Great, we have IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO, WBC and now Zuffa. There will be plenty of "I am the champion", only if there are enough fools to fight for Zuffa and their poor salaries.