For all it’s worth, the rivalry and competition between boxing and UFC is no myth. It does exist from the bottom to the top, from fans to the promoters and the fighters.
Two of the higher-profile figures in both sports have butted heads recently in Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Dana White. Mayweather blasted MMA and UFC by likening it to an animal sport and says it’s a sport for “beer drinkers” and that MMA was created for white fighters to have a place to dominate again since boxing is ruled by black and Hispanic fighters.Floyd said in an interview with CBS Sportsline last week:
"It takes true skills to be in the sport of Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts is for Beer drinkers." And added, “Boxing is for everybody... I mean you can't take my shoes off and take my shirt off and just throw me in a cage... you do that with animals, you don't do that with humans,"In the past Floyd has also been quoted badmouthing MMA when he said more than a year ago:
“UFC ain’t sh**. It ain’t but a fad. Anyone can put a tattoo on their head and get in a street fight. We should put Liddell against a good heavyweight, under Mayweather Promotions, and if Chuck wins, then I’ll give him a million dollars out of my own pocket. These are guys who couldn’t make it in boxing, so they do (MMA). Boxing is the best sport in the world and its here to stay.”
UFC CEO Dana White responded saying and as quoted by MMAonTap,
“You know, Floyd Mayweather just came out and said some stupid sh** about Chuck Liddell,”and continued,
“He said he’d pay a million dollars if Chuck could hang with a heavyweight boxer. How about if he pays a million dollars to see if a heavyweight boxer can fight MMA with Chuck Liddell? Or, even better, I’ll put up a million dollars of my own money if Floyd Mayweather can sell more than 10 tickets without Oscar De La Hoya.”Well, as they say, success is the ultimate revenge. And knowing White’s nature, there’s nothing more he’d like to do than rain on Mayweather’s comeback parade by stacking up his UFC 103 card in Dallas that happens to be on the same day, September 19, as Mayweather’s bout against Juan Manuel Marquez in Vegas.
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