Dana White admits he 'doesn't know' if Tyson Fury's fight with Anthony Joshua will go ahead after Gypsy King claimed rival wants to pull OUT of the £150m bout amid Eddie Hearn's feud with promoter
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Dana White has cast doubt over Tyson Fury's heavyweight blockbuster against Anthony Joshua, admitting that he has 'no idea' whether the £150million showdown will go ahead on December 11.
The battle between British boxing's biggest names was plunged into jeopardy over the weekend, with Fury claiming his arch rival 'wants to pull out' of the fight amid a dispute between White and Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn.
Fury's claim made for a dramatic escalation, with the pair announcing their Cardiff bout just over 24 hours earlier.
White, who runs Zuffa Boxing alongside Saudi Arabia's boxing supremo Turki Al-Sheikh, has been billed as the main promoter for the heavyweight showdown and had fought for the contest to take place in New York City.
Hearn, who successfully wrestled the fight back to Cardiff, has claimed that the contract Joshua signed stipulates that White cannot be involved in the contest and threatened crunch talks with broadcaster Netflix over White's attendance at Fury and Joshua's press conference on Wednesday in London.
That warning appears to have thrown the event into chaos, with Fury claiming Hearn's 'ego' is presenting a major stumbling block in the long-awaited bout taking place.
Dana White has admitted he has 'no idea' if Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua will go ahead
Tyson Fury announced on Saturday that Joshua 'wants to pull out' of the December 11 contest
White, whose involvement has been criticised by sections of the British boxing public, was grilled by the media in a cagey press conference on Saturday night, where he labelled the bout a 's***show' while conceding he has 'no idea' if the contest will take place.
'I don't know. The guy who is supposed to be helping the fight has been hurting the fight the entire time. He hasn't done the fight any favours. I don't know anybody who is more full of s*** than Eddie Hearn.'
When asked whether he would step aside to allow the fight to go ahead, White said: 'That's not up to me. I'm involved in the f***ing fight.
'If Eddie Hearn really cared about this f***ing fight — first of all the fight would've happened a f***ing long time ago, one. Number two, he could finance the thing himself.
'Listen, this whole thing's a s***show right now. We'll all know a lot more in the next three, four days, see how this thing plays out.'
White's comments follow Fury's expletive-laden Instagram video, in which he labelled Joshua and Hearn 'cowards'.
He said: 'Breaking News: Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn are trying to pull out of this fight they are saying he is not going to fight now.
'They're little s*** house cowards, mainly to do with Eddie Hearn's ego, he's making up a million different things and threatening that "we're not going to fight" you little coward.
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'AJ pull your finger out you white flag, yellow-bellied coward. You know now we're coming home, now I'm coming home the Gypsy King is coming back to the United Kingdom to thrash you in front of all my fans in Wales.'
Fury went on to call Joshua a 'body-building sausage'.
He also claimed that boxing supremo Turki Al-Sheikh is now looking to find a new person to fight Fury at 'the drop of a hat'.
Fury continued: 'So I hope [Hearn and Joshua] are happy you little cowardly b*******, I've never seen anything like [Hearn and Joshua] you pure s*** houses and this is mainly to do with Eddie Hearn's ego. What a little p****.'
The 38-year-old then posted a mocked up poster of himself and light heavyweight champion David Benavidez, hinting that the 29-year-old American could replace AJ in the Cardiff contest.
It is understood that both men are set to pocket around £75million for arguably the biggest bout to be staged on British soil, if it goes ahead.
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