‘Best thing to ever happen’ – Dana White’s shock career announcement backed by boxing legend and pal Mike Tyson

DANA WHITE's announcement of his plans to participate the satellite of boxing has been hailed by Mike Tyson.

The UFC supremo is simply a long-time instrumentality of the saccharine science and revealed plans to gatecrash the athletics up of Conor McGregor's 2017 showdown with Floyd Mayweather.

Zuffa Boxing, however, ne'er got disconnected the crushed - though the seasoned promoter revealed past week that he's reignited those plans.

And his announcement was good received by his bully person Tyson, who reckons the UFC headhoncho volition alteration the athletics for the better.

During an quality connected the Come and Talk 2 Me podcast, helium said: “Is helium truly successful boxing now?”

“Well listen, that’s going to beryllium the champion happening to ever hap to boxing, conscionable similar the UFC.

"If you’re successful the UFC and if anyone is booing your fight, you’re not gonna spot that feline again.

"His next combat is gonna beryllium successful South Dakota somewhere.

“If you don’t person a bully fight, you’re ne'er gonna spot that feline again.

"Not similar boxing, ‘Oh this feline is gonna combat next period again,’ I don’t wanna spot that.

"If immoderate fights stink, you’re not backmost successful the UFC anymore, you’re ne'er going to spot those guys again."

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White's determination to effort to resurrect Zuffa Boxing isn't wholly retired of the bluish fixed his caller platforming and promotion of undefeated Irish super-welterweight Callum Walsh connected UFC Fight Pass.

And Eagled-eyed MMA fans noticed that the YouTube highlights from Walsh's homecoming lawsuit successful Dublin past week had "Zuffa Boxing" plastered connected the thumbnails.

The thumbnails seemingly fto the feline retired of the container and prompted White to say: “There volition beryllium immoderate large announcements.

"If you cognize thing astir maine and you spell backmost and look astatine thing I ever said.

"I ne'er accidental thing that I don’t do, ever. I’ve ne'er said.

"We’ve been kicking the boxing happening astir for a agelong clip and you’ve ne'er heard maine perpetrate and say, ‘I’m in’. I’m in.”

It remains to beryllium seen whether oregon not Zuffa Boxing really gets disconnected the crushed this time.

But White is successful a overmuch amended spot financially to participate the boxing satellite pursuing the UFC's joining of forces with the WWE to signifier the TKO Group, which arsenic of past September, was valued astatine £16BILLION ($21.4B).