Who Will Own Boxing?
Dana White says boxing is broken, and much of his diagnosis is difficult to dispute. The real danger may not be that he fails to fix it, but that he succeeds.
Publisher Description
Boxing has always thrived on chaos. Rival promoters, competing broadcasters, questionable characters and an alphabet soup of world titles have frustrated fans for generations — but that disorder has also allowed fighters to play the system, negotiate their worth and, occasionally, become bigger than the sport itself.
Now Dana White wants to change everything.
With Zuffa Boxing attempting to bring the UFC model into the ring, Who Will Own Boxing? examines the battle for the future of one of the world’s oldest sports. From Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren to Conor Benn, fighter pay, the Muhammad Ali Act and the extraordinary commercialisation of modern sport, it asks whether boxing really needs saving — and what might be lost if one organisation finally succeeds in controlling it.
Dana White may well fix boxing.
The more important question is: who benefits when he does?
