UFC also sucks now as a product in comparison to a decade or more ago. The product is so watered down with unranked names that nobody knows fighting every week while the best guys fight once or twice a year.Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑13 Apr 2026, 16:28Why do you want them to do a card a week?
UFC is weekly, that’s Dana’s priority no doubt.
Zuffa is a progress. They’re not rushing anything.
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UFC has been boring for over 3 years now. Literally. Was still ok when Covid hit. We got many cards.
Then slowly it went crap.
Then slowly it went crap.
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Re: Chris Billam Smith Signs with Zuffa Boxing
Who are going the negotiations for Zuffa?
Dana isn’t going round talking to these fighters is he?
Who are there people on the ground over here?
Dana isn’t going round talking to these fighters is he?
Who are there people on the ground over here?
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It could be Dana or Dana in collaboration with some of his underlings. He's been wanting to do this for a long long time and he hasn't really been running the UFC for years now.Frostieballs wrote: ↑13 Apr 2026, 18:18 Who are going the negotiations for Zuffa?
Dana isn’t going round talking to these fighters is he?
Who are there people on the ground over here?
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Because i like to watch boxingRuthless-RKO wrote: ↑13 Apr 2026, 16:28Why do you want them to do a card a week?
UFC is weekly, that’s Dana’s priority no doubt.
Zuffa is a progress. They’re not rushing anything.
and Zuffa cards are very good IMO. Evenly matched fights, upsets, i really like it. There is literally no prospect vs bum fights which i hate. Really hoping Zuffa to succeed 
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Can’t blame him for chasing the money & wanting to fight on Sky.
Anything he achieves from here on in is a bonus. He’s absolutely smashed this boxing game & done far better than any of us could’ve imagined.
Anything he achieves from here on in is a bonus. He’s absolutely smashed this boxing game & done far better than any of us could’ve imagined.
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Yes. I live there. He is heavily connected with the football club and very much respected. He does a lot with local businesses etc.
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Chris Billam-Smith has Jai Opetaia in his sights following Zuffa Boxing deal
Former cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith thinks he could see out his career with Zuffa boxing.
The popular “Gentleman” is 35 and yesterday announced his decision to work with Zuffa Boxing and continue his career on Sky Sports.
Billam-Smith said talks had lasted about six weeks and he admitted attractive offers were scarce given no promoter has an abundance of high-level cruiserweights at their disposal.
“I think it will be,” Billam-Smith told Boxing Scene. “A multi-fight, multi-year deal, so yeah, I think it probably, if everything goes the way I want it to, it would be the last deal of my career, and I’ve got a few years left yet, but that’s kind of what we’ve positioned it as.”
Billam-Smith has long hoped for a big, lucrative fight with reigning 200lbs king Jai Opetaia, and the link up with Zuffa appears to be a way to expedite that bout.
Opetaia needs credible opponents having seen off Brandon Glanton in his last fight, the same American Billam-Smith defeated in his last bout in April last year.
Since then, Billam-Smith – a dedicated family man – has become a father for a second time.
And there’s no uncertainty about what he wants to achieve with what time he has left.
“For me, it’s about fighting the best, and obviously everyone sees Jai Opetaia as the best, and that's what I want to do, I want to prove that that’s where I belong. I think if my career had ended and I’d not boxed Jai Opetaia, I’d be very annoyed and always feel like there was something left, and there’s probably those sort of things that people and fighters come back out of retirement because they feel like there’s stuff left on the table. But I feel like with this deal, there won’t be that.”
A significant part of Billam-Smith’s story has been his adoring Bournemouth fanbase and he hopes that will remain part of his final chapter.
It was in Bournemouth where Billam-Smith seized the WBO cruiserweight title from Lawrence Okolie at the Vitality Stadium – home of his beloved Bournemouth ABC – and where Billam-Smith has turned the arena, the Bournemouth International Centre, into a formidable cauldron.
“It’s definitely been part of the conversation because we’ve mentioned it,” Billam-Smith said of talks to fight back in his hometown. “Obviously, we’d love to do a show down there, so obviously they’ll call the shots, but Sky Sports have been down there and experienced it, and they can tell them how good it is down there from a production point of view, a visual point of view, a noise point of view, the atmosphere and everything else that comes with it.
"Hopefully we can get a show back home.”
Billam-Smith said news on a fight date and opponent will be forthcoming, possibly even this week. He believes he will return in May or June, and that suits him and while it won’t be Opetaia yet, the Australian remains his top target.
Of course, the story about Zuffa, Opetaia, the IBF and being No. 1 has been covered significantly. Do the belts figure prominently in Billam-Smith’s ambitions?
“It’s about the names and sort of fighting the best in the division,” he explained.
“I think the way I look at it is, who do I believe I need? At the end of the day, I want to prove you’re the best to myself, but also to everyone else, because that’s just part of the job, right? And that’s sort of the role you take. I’ve enjoyed proving people wrong in the past, but people see Jai Opetaia as the number one in the division. It’s between him and Zurdo right now. Obviously, I’ve boxed Zurdo [Gilberto Ramirez, losing a decision, and his WBO belt] and learned so much in that fight, and I would love that rematch down the line, but that was not going to happen anytime soon, because I’d need to beat Jai Opetaia for him to probably have interest in fighting me again. So that’s the route I’m looking at, and for me, it’s about fighting the best. The belts are great and I was so happy to be world champion, but I was happy because I beat the world champion who was the number one, or the number two in the division at the time… a very reputable world champion that no one gave me a chance to beat. Now, obviously, Jai’s had some highlight reel performances, and is viewed as the number one, and that’s what I want to do, but if he’s got a belt or he doesn’t have a belt, the belt doesn’t make him the best in the division.”
Billam-Smith has been linked to other bouts.
Former promoter at Boxxer, Ben Shalom, had previously told BS that he was interested in making Billam-Smith against South African Kevin Lerena for a belt at bridgerweight. But the Bournemouth man said the only fight at that weight that would have appealed to him was one against Deontay Wilder.
The other fight Billam-Smith was mentioned for was against Viddal Riley, who claimed the European title recently with a win over former Billam-Smith victim Mateusz Masternak.
“If I go and beat Viddal, that wouldn’t make me the number one in the world, but beating Jai Opetaia would make me the number one in the world,” he explained.
“People would argue, obviously, having lost to Zurdo, but then I get the opportunity to be back in that top-two conversation, and then we could fight Zurdo to see who is the number one in the world. Obviously, it’s an ever-evolving door when it comes to stuff like that, because there’s always people coming through, but in this time, in this era we’re in, Opetaia and Zurdo are the best two, and I’ve obviously boxed one of them and came up short, but I want to get that rematch, and I want to fight Opetaia as well. So, for me, that’s what it’s about. It’s about proving to myself, but also just pushing myself to the max and fighting the very best, and that’s how I’ve always been – even as an amateur – and belts don’t guarantee that, as we’ve seen recently with strippings and whatnot.”
There have been no preliminary discussions about where an Opetaia fight could take place but first Billam-Smith has to negotiate what he has called “a hard fight.”
“I think they only want the hard fights,” he said of Zuffa. “There’ no gimmies in this game, so yeah, next should be announced soon. I think they’ve got it over the line on both sides, but I think it’s a world-class opponent, so it’s something I’m really excited about, and I think that’s what I need at this stage in my career.”
Billam-Smith has been in camp with trainer Shane McGuigan since the start of the year.
He also cites his best wins, against Okolie and Richard Riakaporhe, as performances that took place in May-June, fitting the proposed date of his next bout.
“I feel in a fantastic place,” he said, adding of the announcement, “It’s gone a bit mad, but it’s good. I was thinking as well, I don’t think I’ve ever had an announcement signing. It’s like fight announcements, but they’re always quite close to a fight. This is something slightly different. I felt very, very valued by the things they [Zuffa] were saying about UK shows, and they’d like me to headline shows and stuff like that, so that’s what it’s been about, and it’s a deal that I’m pleased with in terms of everything that goes with it, and the path we take, and the opponents we’ve spoken about. We heard that Zuffa were coming into Sky, and they were obviously sorting their deal out for quite a while as well and any sports person, I think, in the UK would want to do their sport on Sky Sports in the UK and the journey I’ve had with Sky Sports over the last few years has been amazing.”
Former cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith thinks he could see out his career with Zuffa boxing.
The popular “Gentleman” is 35 and yesterday announced his decision to work with Zuffa Boxing and continue his career on Sky Sports.
Billam-Smith said talks had lasted about six weeks and he admitted attractive offers were scarce given no promoter has an abundance of high-level cruiserweights at their disposal.
“I think it will be,” Billam-Smith told Boxing Scene. “A multi-fight, multi-year deal, so yeah, I think it probably, if everything goes the way I want it to, it would be the last deal of my career, and I’ve got a few years left yet, but that’s kind of what we’ve positioned it as.”
Billam-Smith has long hoped for a big, lucrative fight with reigning 200lbs king Jai Opetaia, and the link up with Zuffa appears to be a way to expedite that bout.
Opetaia needs credible opponents having seen off Brandon Glanton in his last fight, the same American Billam-Smith defeated in his last bout in April last year.
Since then, Billam-Smith – a dedicated family man – has become a father for a second time.
And there’s no uncertainty about what he wants to achieve with what time he has left.
“For me, it’s about fighting the best, and obviously everyone sees Jai Opetaia as the best, and that's what I want to do, I want to prove that that’s where I belong. I think if my career had ended and I’d not boxed Jai Opetaia, I’d be very annoyed and always feel like there was something left, and there’s probably those sort of things that people and fighters come back out of retirement because they feel like there’s stuff left on the table. But I feel like with this deal, there won’t be that.”
A significant part of Billam-Smith’s story has been his adoring Bournemouth fanbase and he hopes that will remain part of his final chapter.
It was in Bournemouth where Billam-Smith seized the WBO cruiserweight title from Lawrence Okolie at the Vitality Stadium – home of his beloved Bournemouth ABC – and where Billam-Smith has turned the arena, the Bournemouth International Centre, into a formidable cauldron.
“It’s definitely been part of the conversation because we’ve mentioned it,” Billam-Smith said of talks to fight back in his hometown. “Obviously, we’d love to do a show down there, so obviously they’ll call the shots, but Sky Sports have been down there and experienced it, and they can tell them how good it is down there from a production point of view, a visual point of view, a noise point of view, the atmosphere and everything else that comes with it.
"Hopefully we can get a show back home.”
Billam-Smith said news on a fight date and opponent will be forthcoming, possibly even this week. He believes he will return in May or June, and that suits him and while it won’t be Opetaia yet, the Australian remains his top target.
Of course, the story about Zuffa, Opetaia, the IBF and being No. 1 has been covered significantly. Do the belts figure prominently in Billam-Smith’s ambitions?
“It’s about the names and sort of fighting the best in the division,” he explained.
“I think the way I look at it is, who do I believe I need? At the end of the day, I want to prove you’re the best to myself, but also to everyone else, because that’s just part of the job, right? And that’s sort of the role you take. I’ve enjoyed proving people wrong in the past, but people see Jai Opetaia as the number one in the division. It’s between him and Zurdo right now. Obviously, I’ve boxed Zurdo [Gilberto Ramirez, losing a decision, and his WBO belt] and learned so much in that fight, and I would love that rematch down the line, but that was not going to happen anytime soon, because I’d need to beat Jai Opetaia for him to probably have interest in fighting me again. So that’s the route I’m looking at, and for me, it’s about fighting the best. The belts are great and I was so happy to be world champion, but I was happy because I beat the world champion who was the number one, or the number two in the division at the time… a very reputable world champion that no one gave me a chance to beat. Now, obviously, Jai’s had some highlight reel performances, and is viewed as the number one, and that’s what I want to do, but if he’s got a belt or he doesn’t have a belt, the belt doesn’t make him the best in the division.”
Billam-Smith has been linked to other bouts.
Former promoter at Boxxer, Ben Shalom, had previously told BS that he was interested in making Billam-Smith against South African Kevin Lerena for a belt at bridgerweight. But the Bournemouth man said the only fight at that weight that would have appealed to him was one against Deontay Wilder.
The other fight Billam-Smith was mentioned for was against Viddal Riley, who claimed the European title recently with a win over former Billam-Smith victim Mateusz Masternak.
“If I go and beat Viddal, that wouldn’t make me the number one in the world, but beating Jai Opetaia would make me the number one in the world,” he explained.
“People would argue, obviously, having lost to Zurdo, but then I get the opportunity to be back in that top-two conversation, and then we could fight Zurdo to see who is the number one in the world. Obviously, it’s an ever-evolving door when it comes to stuff like that, because there’s always people coming through, but in this time, in this era we’re in, Opetaia and Zurdo are the best two, and I’ve obviously boxed one of them and came up short, but I want to get that rematch, and I want to fight Opetaia as well. So, for me, that’s what it’s about. It’s about proving to myself, but also just pushing myself to the max and fighting the very best, and that’s how I’ve always been – even as an amateur – and belts don’t guarantee that, as we’ve seen recently with strippings and whatnot.”
There have been no preliminary discussions about where an Opetaia fight could take place but first Billam-Smith has to negotiate what he has called “a hard fight.”
“I think they only want the hard fights,” he said of Zuffa. “There’ no gimmies in this game, so yeah, next should be announced soon. I think they’ve got it over the line on both sides, but I think it’s a world-class opponent, so it’s something I’m really excited about, and I think that’s what I need at this stage in my career.”
Billam-Smith has been in camp with trainer Shane McGuigan since the start of the year.
He also cites his best wins, against Okolie and Richard Riakaporhe, as performances that took place in May-June, fitting the proposed date of his next bout.
“I feel in a fantastic place,” he said, adding of the announcement, “It’s gone a bit mad, but it’s good. I was thinking as well, I don’t think I’ve ever had an announcement signing. It’s like fight announcements, but they’re always quite close to a fight. This is something slightly different. I felt very, very valued by the things they [Zuffa] were saying about UK shows, and they’d like me to headline shows and stuff like that, so that’s what it’s been about, and it’s a deal that I’m pleased with in terms of everything that goes with it, and the path we take, and the opponents we’ve spoken about. We heard that Zuffa were coming into Sky, and they were obviously sorting their deal out for quite a while as well and any sports person, I think, in the UK would want to do their sport on Sky Sports in the UK and the journey I’ve had with Sky Sports over the last few years has been amazing.”
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Ryan Rozicki I reckon
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Shane McGuigan believes ‘sadistic’ Chris Billam-Smith is improving
Trainer Shane McGuigan believes we have not seen the best of former world cruiserweight titleholder Chris Billam-Smith.
Billam-Smith, from Bournemouth, England, was recently announced as a Zuffa signing as he prepares to return to the ring in June on Sky Sports.
Now 35, Billam-Smith won the title against former stablemate Lawrence Okolie before losing the WBO belt in a unification bout against WBA belt holder Gilberto Ramirez in Saudi Arabia.
Billam-Smith has not boxed since a victory over Brandon Glanton last April, but his time spent in the gym and working on himself will, McGuigan contends, pay dividends.
“Genuinely, I think he’s getting better,” McGuigan said. “I know it sounds mad to say it, but I think he’s getting better. He’s putting so much time and effort in. He’s working on things outside of boxing as well, like his strength and conditioning, in a different way at the moment. And I feel like it’s all going to come together. He’s still got more left.”
Billam-Smith is 21-2 (13 KOs), and he was recently joined in the Zuffa ranks by Canada’s Ryan Rozicki, making that a viable matchup. Both have high rankings with governing bodies: Billam-Smith is rated No. 3 by the IBF, No. 4 by the WBC and No. 5 by the WBO, while Rozicki is No. 11 with the IBF and No. 1 with the WBC.
Billam-Smith has already boxed Glanton, now with Zuffa and having been dispatched by the promotion’s prize cruiserweight, Jai Opetaia – who remains Billam-Smith’s top target.
“At the end of the day, they’ve got Jai Opetaia,” McGuigan added.
“We’re not obviously going to box Brandon Glanton, because he’s beat Brandon Glanton quite comfortably before. But the fact that they’re signing up some cruiserweights – they’re putting an emphasis on the cruiserweight division; just like MVP is putting an emphasis on female boxing, Zuffa boxing is putting an emphasis on the cruiserweight division. And that’s great. It’s a great party to be involved in, a great promotion company and a great outfit to be sort of involved in. And their link-up with Sky is huge. And they’ve got the infrastructure of Nick Khan and Dana White, and obviously the backing of Turki [Alalshikh], that I think they’re going to really do something special. And they’re going to come at it from a different perspective than the old-school way of thinking about things.
“And, yeah, they’re going to shake up a lot of governing bodies and people like that. But, you know, Sky are a purist channel as well. So they’ll have in place certain things that they want, that they want to keep traditional. But they also understand that Dana White knows how to create an unbelievable business model. And so does Nick Khan. And I think the two of them, it’s a breath of fresh air to boxing.”
McGuigan would like to see Opetaia face Billam-Smith this year.
Asked whether Zuffa’s signing of Opetaia was Billam-Smith’s biggest incentive for joining the promotional company, McGuigan said: “Yeah, Chris wants it. It’s like, styles make fights. Chris likes to be in there with punchers. He likes it. He’s a sadistic madman. But he performs his best when he’s up against it.
“And you’ve got people writing him off against Richard Riakporhe. You’ve got people writing him off against Lawrence Okolie. You’ll have everybody and their dog writing him off against Opetaia. But he believes he can win a world title and beat these guys. You can only be in the sport when you believe in yourself at that level. And he’s achieved so much. I think to get huge fights with a promotional outfit that is willing to back you and push you on a TV broadcast like that, it’s just an amazing position to be in. And I think he’s very grateful.”
Billam-Smith has been on Sky plenty of times before, first with Matchroom and then with Boxxer, and the network will need British fighters to top its new bills, with shows expected in June, August and September. Billam-Smith will likely be first up.
“No matter what people say, Sky Sports does the best numbers. That’s the truth,” said McGuigan.
“Even over BT, when BT were involved in the sport, like, [Sky]’s the most accessible channel. And I watched Ben Whittaker the other night [on DAZN], and no disrespect to the undercard, but I only switched it on and I had to rewind it and watch Ben Whittaker because it only lasted a round. I checked my Instagram and it had already finished. So I went and viewed it. But I’m keeping an eye out on talent and fighters, but I would have been watching that [had it been on Sky]. I would have been watching that show and that card if it had been on Sky Sports.
“Maybe I’m slightly more old-school. I like to sit and flick through the channels. But streaming, for me – unless it’s a Netflix or an Amazon or something like that – I just feel like sometimes it’s hard to get a hold of it. You have to really love the sport to be going and getting on the channel. And I think it’s a great place for them to be involved with Sky, because they’re going to get the eyeballs and they’re going to get the [general] sport fans and you’re going to become more of a household name on that platform.”
Trainer Shane McGuigan believes we have not seen the best of former world cruiserweight titleholder Chris Billam-Smith.
Billam-Smith, from Bournemouth, England, was recently announced as a Zuffa signing as he prepares to return to the ring in June on Sky Sports.
Now 35, Billam-Smith won the title against former stablemate Lawrence Okolie before losing the WBO belt in a unification bout against WBA belt holder Gilberto Ramirez in Saudi Arabia.
Billam-Smith has not boxed since a victory over Brandon Glanton last April, but his time spent in the gym and working on himself will, McGuigan contends, pay dividends.
“Genuinely, I think he’s getting better,” McGuigan said. “I know it sounds mad to say it, but I think he’s getting better. He’s putting so much time and effort in. He’s working on things outside of boxing as well, like his strength and conditioning, in a different way at the moment. And I feel like it’s all going to come together. He’s still got more left.”
Billam-Smith is 21-2 (13 KOs), and he was recently joined in the Zuffa ranks by Canada’s Ryan Rozicki, making that a viable matchup. Both have high rankings with governing bodies: Billam-Smith is rated No. 3 by the IBF, No. 4 by the WBC and No. 5 by the WBO, while Rozicki is No. 11 with the IBF and No. 1 with the WBC.
Billam-Smith has already boxed Glanton, now with Zuffa and having been dispatched by the promotion’s prize cruiserweight, Jai Opetaia – who remains Billam-Smith’s top target.
“At the end of the day, they’ve got Jai Opetaia,” McGuigan added.
“We’re not obviously going to box Brandon Glanton, because he’s beat Brandon Glanton quite comfortably before. But the fact that they’re signing up some cruiserweights – they’re putting an emphasis on the cruiserweight division; just like MVP is putting an emphasis on female boxing, Zuffa boxing is putting an emphasis on the cruiserweight division. And that’s great. It’s a great party to be involved in, a great promotion company and a great outfit to be sort of involved in. And their link-up with Sky is huge. And they’ve got the infrastructure of Nick Khan and Dana White, and obviously the backing of Turki [Alalshikh], that I think they’re going to really do something special. And they’re going to come at it from a different perspective than the old-school way of thinking about things.
“And, yeah, they’re going to shake up a lot of governing bodies and people like that. But, you know, Sky are a purist channel as well. So they’ll have in place certain things that they want, that they want to keep traditional. But they also understand that Dana White knows how to create an unbelievable business model. And so does Nick Khan. And I think the two of them, it’s a breath of fresh air to boxing.”
McGuigan would like to see Opetaia face Billam-Smith this year.
Asked whether Zuffa’s signing of Opetaia was Billam-Smith’s biggest incentive for joining the promotional company, McGuigan said: “Yeah, Chris wants it. It’s like, styles make fights. Chris likes to be in there with punchers. He likes it. He’s a sadistic madman. But he performs his best when he’s up against it.
“And you’ve got people writing him off against Richard Riakporhe. You’ve got people writing him off against Lawrence Okolie. You’ll have everybody and their dog writing him off against Opetaia. But he believes he can win a world title and beat these guys. You can only be in the sport when you believe in yourself at that level. And he’s achieved so much. I think to get huge fights with a promotional outfit that is willing to back you and push you on a TV broadcast like that, it’s just an amazing position to be in. And I think he’s very grateful.”
Billam-Smith has been on Sky plenty of times before, first with Matchroom and then with Boxxer, and the network will need British fighters to top its new bills, with shows expected in June, August and September. Billam-Smith will likely be first up.
“No matter what people say, Sky Sports does the best numbers. That’s the truth,” said McGuigan.
“Even over BT, when BT were involved in the sport, like, [Sky]’s the most accessible channel. And I watched Ben Whittaker the other night [on DAZN], and no disrespect to the undercard, but I only switched it on and I had to rewind it and watch Ben Whittaker because it only lasted a round. I checked my Instagram and it had already finished. So I went and viewed it. But I’m keeping an eye out on talent and fighters, but I would have been watching that [had it been on Sky]. I would have been watching that show and that card if it had been on Sky Sports.
“Maybe I’m slightly more old-school. I like to sit and flick through the channels. But streaming, for me – unless it’s a Netflix or an Amazon or something like that – I just feel like sometimes it’s hard to get a hold of it. You have to really love the sport to be going and getting on the channel. And I think it’s a great place for them to be involved with Sky, because they’re going to get the eyeballs and they’re going to get the [general] sport fans and you’re going to become more of a household name on that platform.”
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Decent name. They seem to be focusing on the Cruiserweight division a lot amusingly enough.
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considering it wasn't one of the weight classes it originally included.
Outside of Zuffa, the cruiserweights have been a bit and miss in recent years.
Some good and then some bad.
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It's Rozicki. Good fight but dangerous
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Ben Shalom said he had a matching right with Chris Billam Smith and an exclusive negotiating period which was ignored by Zuffa. Also other fighters on that card he says are fully under contract with Boxxer.
So do something about it.
So do something about it.
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Does it sound at all plausible that he has got contractual rights over these guys butRuthless-RKO wrote: ↑29 May 2026, 05:48 Ben Shalom said he had a matching right with Chris Billam Smith and an exclusive negotiating period which was ignored by Zuffa. Also other fighters on that card he says are fully under contract with Boxxer.
So do something about it.
(1) didn't do anything about it
and
(2) zuffa just completely ignored the existence of those contractual rights and went ahead and had their expensive legal team write up contracts to sign these guys and thereby leave themselves open to legal action?
Sounds like bullshit to me
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Imagine this in court. The legal set up Will be like Better call Sal vs thr OJ dream team!