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The Bob Arum vs Dana White feud shows no signs of ending soon

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Top Rank boss Bob Arum appeared on the latest edition of Frank Warren’s Heavyweight Podcast to give Dana White a rocket.

Arum has reignited his war of words with the UFC head honcho by insisting the MMA promoters fighters “don’t get paid anything”.

In conversation with fellow Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren, Arum said of the UFC talent: “They fight where he tells them to fight. He sets the purses. If they don’t like it he goes somewhere else.

“We promote in a very competitive arena. The fighters are able to capitalize on that. They get purses that are much, much bigger than the amounts the UFC guys get because they have a monopoly.”

The latest in the Arum-White back-and-forth comes just days after Dana declared to Frank Warren’s Heavyweight Podcast that boxing was a “s—show”.

Bob Arum on Dana White

He also said it was, “hard to articulate how messed up it was”.

88-year-old Arum came to the defense of the sport and its athletes. He said, “Our participants are paid like the independent stars that they are.”

Arum is no stranger to going after his MMA counterpart. In a recent interview with CBS said that Dana “should be ashamed of himself” for trying to promote fights during the Coronavirus crisis.

He finished by calling White “somebody with a flawed intelligence.”

Both Top Rank and Queensberry Promotions have postponed shows in response to the current public health emergency. Queensberry’s Dubois vs Joyce event tentatively pushed back from April to July 11th.

Arum told the podcast that to be safe he has ordered his staff, “Don’t make plans. We don’t know how long this thing could last.”

In a wide-ranging chat with Frank, Arum spoke at great lengths about his conversion from lawyer to boxing promoter in the mid-1960s. Plus, his association with Muhammad Ali and even his current efforts to grow a beard.