UFC's Dana White rips Oscar De La Hoya after boxing great criticizes fighter pay

Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya and UFC president Dana White traded expletives on social media after Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega battled for the lightweight title.

"What happens is when you build something great, and I say this all the time, whenever you build something great, it's always surrounded by negativity. When you're in a business like us, the level of scumbags that are in the media, it's unexplainable. I mean it's going on right now, you have these scumbags out there that know nothing about the business, telling all the fighters, 'oh you're all being underpaid, you're not being paid enough money'...

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