Episode 662: Is boxing Dana White’s idea of a cushy retirement gig?

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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You know how, after they retire, some older guys go out and get, like, part-time jobs at the United Way or Ace Hardware or some shit? Not necessarily because they need the money — they just need to keep themselves busy, and maybe they like talking to people about paint colors and nail sizes and the best brands of epoxy spackle. Is that what Dana White is doing with boxing? Dana was at the big boxing match on Saturday, sitting at ringside next to Turki Alalshikh and Mark Wahlberg. After Terence Crawford whooped up on Canelo Alvarez, Dana wrapped the Ring Magazine belt around Crawford’s waist. Aside from that, we’re not totally sure what his job was there. So, as TKO reportedly plots its takeover of the sweet science, is Dana effectively using boxing like some guys join the country club? Does he want to fade out of the UFC, kick back and spend a few hours a day destroying the Muhammad Ali Act and looking for young, white, Irish fighters to promote? Cuz those are the vibes. Meanwhile, at Dana’s real job, they put on an event the same night, where Diego Lopes knocked all kinds of blood out of Jean Silva’s head during UFC Noche. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast.
0:10.9	And now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:17.5	That's right.
0:18.9	You're listening to another episode of the co-main event mixed martial arts podcast.
0:23.6	I'm Chad Dundas. That's Ben Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists, and for the last 13 years, we've been meeting here every week to break down all the action.
0:34.5	In the wild, weird, and occasionally wonderful world of mixed martial arts.
0:40.1	Ben, we talked about it.
0:41.9	Last week, you had a UFC, UFC Noce, in fact, happened in last Saturday.
0:47.8	Same night as the big boxing match, Canelo Alvarez versus Terrence Crawford on Netflix and all week it was pretty
0:57.5	much a wash for the boxing match over the UFC event. Heard a lot about Crawford versus
1:03.6	Canello didn't hear much at all about UFC Noce. This was expected. We knew that the boxing
1:09.9	match on Netflix was going to be a big spectacle. It was
1:14.6	going to be very popular. And as we talked about on this podcast, I think last week, kind of felt
1:21.0	like the UFC conceded that to the boxing match. Didn't put a lot into UFC Noce this year and stark contrast to the big show
1:31.2	at Sphere that we had last year.
1:32.7	As you mentioned, as you pointed out, if you went to the UFC website, aside from trying
1:39.2	to get you to buy a Brandon Moreno action figure, the top story was Canello Crawford.
1:44.9	Obviously, you had the promotional team up between Riyadh season and Dana White's new, I should
1:53.6	say TKO's new boxing promotion.
1:57.4	And so there's a lot of star power behind this one.
1:59.8	Let's start off talking about the boxing match.
2:02.5	We got some listener mail coming up at the bottom of the hour,
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