Since the start of 2018, UFC President Dana White has been discussing his planned entry into the sport of boxing. 

We are now at the halfway point of the year, and White's planned sub-company 'Zuffa Boxing' has not made any moves as of yet.

White's intentions were initially mentioned in August 2017, when the UFC's biggest star, Conor McGregor, had his professional debut in boxing, against Floyd Mayweather Jr. It was the second most lucrative combat sports event in history.

Six months into the year and White is still mapping out his planned boxing venture.

“It’s so broken and so fragmented,” White said to The On With Mario Show.

It’s just, how do you do it? I’m still poking around figuring out how do I do this? How do I get into this and make it work. First of all if I sign a couple of guys, which I could do, I could go out and sign a couple of big stars - who they gonna fight?

"In my world, I have 550 fighters under contract, so I can make any fight I want to make. You have to have a deep roster to make great fights. So I wouldn’t have a deep roster right out the gates. I’m still poking around. You’re gonna see, coming up here soon I’m going to make a real ballsy move here pretty soon. We’ll see how it pans out.”

One of the biggest problems in boxing, according to White, is making fighters with name value compete more than once a year. Once fighters reach a certain superstar level, White explains that it suddenly becomes difficult to get them in the ring or take chances against difficult competition.

“I just think that when you get guys in boxing that become huge superstars, it’s almost like they don’t want to fight anymore,” White said.

“Whether it’s not engaging in the ring, and trying to do just enough to win and just enough to not lose and you don’t see that in the UFC, man. When these guys come to fight, they come to fight. We stack the card, and I think we put on the best live event in all of sports.”