White Dismisses Contractual Block On Joshua-Fury Role

Dana White is pressing ahead with his involvement in the Anthony Joshua versus Tyson Fury fight despite both Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn stating publicly that the contract for the November bout contains a clause specifically barring White from serving as promoter.

Asked directly at a press conference whether he was promoting the show, White did not acknowledge the contractual restriction. Instead he deflected with a question of his own — and then pointed directly at Hearn as evidence that his involvement is legitimate.

"Do you think that I would publicly lie and that I would look like a f—ing idiot in front of everybody?" White said. "Do you believe that I would? What would be the point of that? Ah I was lying everybody, gotcha! What would be the point of that? Call Eddie right now and ask him if he knows where the fight is. Call Eddie and ask him who negotiated the contract for the fight?,” White

The exchange raises more questions than it answers. White's suggestion that Hearn negotiated the contract — and his implication that Hearn therefore knows who is involved behind the scenes — sits awkwardly alongside Hearn's own public statements about White.

White also teased knowledge of the venue, asking reporters whether the fight's location had been announced before suggesting he knew what it was — a detail that implies a level of operational involvement that goes beyond a passing interest in the sport's biggest fight.