Irish boxing sensation Callum Walsh goes all in on Dana White’s imaginative and prescient for the game.
Earlier this 12 months, White introduced that he was lastly stepping into the boxing enterprise after greater than a decade of rumors and hypothesis. Although particulars stay underneath wraps, the UFC CEO ruffled some feathers when he revealed that this new boxing endeavor would perform exterior of the game’s 4 main governing our bodies — the WBA, WBC, WBO, and IBF — and make the most of the UFC mannequin to rank fighters and crown champions.
Walsh excited for ‘UFC’s model of boxing’
Whereas not everyone seems to be on board with White’s try and restructure a centuries-old sport, Walsh believes White’s imaginative and prescient is precisely what the boxing world wants proper now.
“It is a new period of boxing,” Walsh informed MMA Junkie. “That is what we’re making an attempt to do. That is what Dana White’s concerned in. , we’re not placing on shitty fights the place persons are going to run across the ring for 10 rounds, you understand what I imply? That is—the UFC’s model of boxing and we’re going to struggle. We’re going to placed on entertaining fights and yeah, it’s going to be a superb one.
“I’ve been round it with the UFC for some time and I all the time hoped that boxing would get the identical concept, you understand, make issues rather a lot simpler for the fighters for the week… The meals you get, they provide the burden reduce stuff, the UFC employees are unbelievable. They make it very straightforward. And I feel that is how boxing must be.”
Touted as boxing’s subsequent massive factor, Walsh (14-0) will step into the co-main occasion highlight this Saturday evening as a part of the Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford card in Las Vegas. There, ‘King’ Callum will sq. off with fellow undefeated fighter Fernando Vargas Jr. (17-0).
