Frank Warren Says Dana White Can Stay on the Fury-Joshua Buildup
Frank Warren does not care who produces Tyson Fury against Anthony Joshua. The Queensberry promoter told iFL TV that Dana White can stay in the buildup to December 11 if that is who the money chose.
The question was specific. White said last week that the UFC is producing the Netflix show from Cardiff. Eddie Hearn then said he messaged Sela and was told that was not the case. Warren was asked if he had seen the exchange.
“I couldn’t give a flying toss. Who cares?” Warren said. “Jesus Christ almighty.”
He treated the production argument as a fight over a credit, not over the bout. Netflix is paying. In his view, the platform can hire whoever it wants to point the cameras.
“It’s a Netflix. They put the money up,” Warren said. “Whoever they want to use to do the production, get on with it. Who gives a monkeys?”
That is a sharper shrug than the public row around it. White said at the UFC 332 press conference that he is still promoting the fight and that the UFC will produce the broadcast. Hearn answered that the claim is barred by contract, and that Sela put the denial in writing. Warren was not interested in refereeing either version.
“Why is it all this digging all the time to find some bullsh*t controversy over nothing?” Warren said. “All anyone cares about is the fight.”
Fury and Joshua are booked for Friday, December 11, at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, streaming globally on Netflix. The announcement framed the show as a collaboration between Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring and White. Hearn, Joshua’s longtime promoter, and Warren, Fury’s, were not in that release. The argument since then has been about what White is actually allowed to do.
Warren’s line on the night itself was simple. Show up or don’t.
“The fight’s on. Watch the fight,” he said. “If you don’t want to watch it, then don’t watch it.”
He called the surrounding noise boring, then went further. The whole dispute, in his telling, has outgrown the thing being disputed.
“I’ve never heard so much stuff going on,” Warren said. “It’s such a lot of nonsense, all this. The whole thing is a load of bollocks. It’s just nonsense.”
The interviewer then asked the question that actually sits under the production spat. Will White be involved in the buildup before December 11, and should he be? Warren split the answer. He expects White to be there. He also said he has no objection if His Excellency and The Ring are the ones who picked him.
“I think he will be, and should he be if he’s working with His Excellency and Ring, and that’s who they chose to work with?” Warren said. “Yeah, I haven’t got a problem.”
That is a change in temperature from the spring, when Warren said Fury’s contract kept Zuffa from promoting the fight. Fury later said he removed that clause so White could be involved. Hearn has not moved. He still says Joshua’s deal blocks White from a promotional role and from the production job White claimed last week.
Warren drew the line at his own fighter. Queensberry’s problem, he said, is Fury, not the logo on the truck.
“All I care about is Tyson and us, and none of us have got a problem,” Warren said. “So who cares?”
He also waved off the idea that fans will be watching the apron on fight night. The ring is the only place the argument gets settled.
“On the night of the fight, you know where you’re gonna be looking? At the ring,” Warren said. “You ain’t gonna be looking round there at them, are you?”
White’s production claim is still unresolved in public. Hearn says Sela has rejected it in writing. White says he is producing the show and will be in Wales. Warren is not waiting on that paperwork. He said a lot of people already did the work to get the bout on, and that some of the stories behind it will stay there.
“A lot of people put a lot of work in to get it on, and it’s on,” Warren said. “There’s some stories behind the scenes that they won’t come out, and I don’t want to be embarrassing people, but look, we are where we are, and let’s just get on with it.”
The date has not moved. Fury and Joshua are still listed for Cardiff on December 11. Warren’s position is that the promoter argument can keep running, as long as it does not get in the way of the first bell.
