After he has gone against each other in previous years, Dana White will now be working with Canelo Alvarez for one of the greatest fighting of the year in the coming months.
Turki Alalshikh confirmed the news that TKO Boxing is launching on 12 September in Las Vegas with Alvarez vs Crawford at the Allegiant Stadium.
Although White and Alvarez see on some subjects face to face, the UFC had to go against the Mexican star several times in the past.
The last time that two of the largest combat sports dishes happened to be shows on the same date was only in September.
UFC Noche in the atmosphere was certainly an event to remember, but it only came after the promotion had received a bad hand.
‼ ️ Breaking: Canelo Alvarez vs Terence Crawford On 12 September in Las Vegas, the first event is promoted by Turki Alshikh and the TKO box company of Dana White.
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Dana White raged about MGM after she had given the T-Mobile Arena to Canelo Alvarez last September
The debut of the UFC in the atmosphere was an incredible spectacle, but Dana White made it completely clear that attracting a show like this was not his original plan.
In 2023, the MMA leader held the first UFC event in Noche in the T-Mobile Arena during the Mexican Independence Day weekend with the promotion in the hope of continuing this tradition.
MGM leaders had other plans after they had given that date to boxing promoter Al Heymon for the collision of Canelo Alvarez with Edgar Berlanga without the UFC finding out.
As a result, UFC 306 took place on the same night with White openly talked about the costs of producing the first of the friendly event.
In a press conference after the episode of 27 August of the Contender Series of Dana White, the UFC president revealed that the people who run the T-Mobile-Arena have not “respected” the promotion for years, which states that the fault is not on the promotion of Al Haymon.
White claimed that there would be a documentary that would go into detail about all the problems they had had with MGM over the years, which hoped to return to their regular destination in Las Vegas, where the atmosphere was a one -off event.
“Hayman and Canelo just do their thing. Rekwisites to them. Good for them that you can actually slide inside and steal the date of us without a phone call, without anything.
'Good for you. I would also do that if that is what I could do. Correct? But that is just a bit of respect that these guys in the Arena have shown us in recent years. It's crazy. ”
Canelo Alvarez and the UFC are now going back-to-back with Dana White with both
After confirming that TKO boxes will be involved in the promotion of Canelo Alvarez vs Terrence Crawford, September will be a very busy month for Dana White.
With demonstrably the largest boxing match of the year that takes place at Allegiant Stadium on Friday 12 September, the UFC will organize Nouch UFC 3 the next night.
UFC 320 will see the Octagon coming for the first time in the newly built Arena Guadalajara with the two previous episodes that both take place in Las Vegas.
After years of potentially going against Alvarez, White will now play a major role in setting up a huge double invoice next to the biggest star in boxing.