Jake Paul and Dana White’s intense feud continues after the pair staged two of the most important events of the yr this weekend.
The social media star took on Mike Tyson on Friday night in Dallas, with over 65million households tuning in to look at live to tell the tale Netflix. And 24 hours later, White staged UFC 309 which pitted the legendary duo of Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic against each other in Madison Square Garden for the heavyweight title.
And while each events were monster hits, the battle could still be felt at one another’s shows throughout the week. Undoubtedly, each were tuned into the opposite on their given nights, and had their very own criticisms.
Jake Paul claims Dana White is holding Conor McGregor ‘hostage’
After his fight with Mike Tyson became one in all the most important in boxing history, Jake Paul has been emboldened to make some big claims on social media. He has been taking to X this evening to tackle quite a few his rivals, including Artur Beterbiev and even his old friend Francis Ngannou.
His biggest issue appears to be with UFC boss Dana White, with whom he has had a long-standing feud. At the peak of his run fighting top MMA fighters, Paul even released a diss track on the promotional supremo, which garnered hundreds of thousands of views on the time.
And he’s now claiming that White’s most notable fighter, Conor McGregor, is a hostage of the promotion’s restrictive contracts. The Irishman is one of the crucial famous athletes on the planet, but hasn’t been capable of compete since breaking his leg in 2021 despite being cleared for years.
“Dana White has a been boxing promoter his whole profession,” Paul wrote on social media, citing an old article from 2014 that reported on the short cancellation of his The Ultimate Fighter spin-off The Fighters.
“All these nut riders must do their research. His TV show failed. Couldn’t sell 4K tickets in Dublin with that useless Irish boxer he’s promoting [Callum Walsh]. And he just isn’t fighters first. He’s Dana first. Builds you up and tears you down. Now Conor McGregor is hostage. Free Conor.”
Conor McGregor and Dana White are at odds over his UFC return
There does seem like a serious issue brewing between McGregor and the UFC over his plans for a return to the octagon. Back in June, he finally scored a date for UFC 303, where he was set to face Michael Chandler over a yr after they coached against each other on The Ultimate Fighter.
Nonetheless, the Irishman suffered a broken toe and the bout was cancelled on short notice. He angled for a return by yr’s end, and it seemed UFC 310 in Las Vegas can be his perfect date.
White, however, has now claimed on multiple occasions that he believes McGregor might be back within the cage within the latter a part of next yr. That might place his trip of the cage at almost 4 years, which is an unprecedented length of time.
For context, McGregor’s entire star-making run from signing to the UFC to fighting Floyd Mayweather was just over 4 years in and of itself.
While evidently relations between the promotion and McGregor are at an okay point now, that was not at all times the case. In December of last yr he appeared at a boxing event in Saudi Arabia, and told TalkSPORT of his concerns at being kept out of motion for years.
“For all of the figures I’ve brought into this game, I sell greater than all of them combined, no-one within the history of the fight game has ever been treated the best way that I’m being treated at this minute,” he said in a chat with Gareth A Davies.
“They f****** should open floodgates for me and I’m waiting and I’m waiting and I’m waiting. My patience has been wearing thin.”
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