Dana White dismisses $10M Misfits offer but dares Eddie Hearn to settle feud in the gym

Dana White has shot down a reported $10 million offer from Misfits Boxing to stage a fight between himself and rival promoter Eddie Hearn, dismissing the concept as unworthy of a paying audience — while simultaneously daring Hearn to meet him in a London gym with no cameras and no payday involved.

Speaking to All Out Fighting following a Zuffa Boxing event in London last Saturday, White confirmed he had heard of the Misfits offer but said no formal approach had reached him. He was blunt about why the matchup holds no appeal as a commercial spectacle.

“I’m 57 years old. The last time I boxed was when I was 38, when I was going to fight Tito Ortiz,” White said. “Eddie Hearn’s a bum. He’s never boxed, ever. Mike Tyson was 58 or 59 when he fought Jake Paul — you saw what Mike Tyson looked like. Mike Tyson was one of the greatest of all-time. So a bum who’s never done anything and a guy who is a never was — what kind of a fight do you think that would be?”

Misfits Boxing co-president Mams Taylor pushed back on White’s claim that no offer had been received. “We definitely sent out an offer,” Taylor wrote on social media, insisting the proposal was real and had been directed to both men.

The public back-and-forth between White and Hearn has been running in parallel with the build-up to Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua, scheduled for December 11. Hearn has maintained that White has no role in promoting the bout, while White has countered that he is involved in both promoting and producing the event. Regardless of that dispute, White confirmed his Zuffa Boxing cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia will move up to heavyweight to face former world champion Deontay Wilder on the same card, ensuring his presence at the event in some capacity.

Hearn had previously claimed a fight between the two promoters could draw over a million pay-per-view buys. White has consistently rejected that framing, and his latest response was no different — though he stopped short of ruling out a physical confrontation entirely.

“If Eddie Hearn wants to fight, he can pick the gym here in London,” White said. “We’ll go down to the gym, me and him, and we can do it.”

The offer of an unsanctioned, private meeting rather than a promoted event underlines where White stands: willing to confront Hearn personally, but unwilling to turn their feud into a business he does not believe in.