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Dana White is firing back at Jake Paul.
Earlier this week, Paul announced that he was directly competing with the UFC after his MVP promotion merged with PFL MMA.
“In less than five years, MVP has disrupted the combat sports world, broken multiple viewership records, elevated women’s boxing to unprecedented heights, and produced some of the biggest events in the history of the sport.”
“This is no different. Merging with the PFL allows us to build something bigger than boxing and MMA. 400+ world-class fighters. Bigger events. Bigger opportunities. One mission: put fighters first.”
“The Wall Street Journal said we want to pick a fight with the UFC and Dana White. We don’t just wanna pick a fight. We want to win the fight.”
I’m going to war for fighters.
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
In less than five years, MVP has disrupted the combat sports world, broken multiple viewership records, elevated women’s boxing to unprecedented heights, and produced some of the biggest events in the history of the sport.
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— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) July 31, 2026
While speaking with Oscar Willis of The Mac Life, White didn’t seem impressed by
“I don’t know anything about what they’re doing,” White told The Mac Life. “It probably makes sense when sh-t isn’t working for anybody, they should all probably get together. Let’s take two organizations that don’t sell tickets and nobody watches and let’s merge them together and make a bigger company that won’t sell tickets and nobody will watch.”