Minutes after Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua was confirmed for December 11 in Cardiff, the promotion was already in dispute over who is promoting it.

The official announcement distributed by Netflix states that Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring and Dana White will collaborate to promote the event, and it carries a quote from White. ESPN reported the fight will be promoted by Ring Magazine in partnership with White.

Eddie Hearn says otherwise, and he said it at length.

“We expect the contracts to be honoured and, unless we decide otherwise, Dana White cannot be involved in the fight,” the Matchroom boss told the Independent.

He was less measured on IFL TV. “The f***ery involved in this fight, and we’ll come onto the fact that even Netflix put out a press release saying the fight will be in conjunction with Dana White. There’s loads of battles to come on that because that ain’t happening either,” Hearn said.

“Dana White cannot be involved with this fight promotionally. Netflix clearly didn’t get the memo. You see, no one talks to each other. I speak to Sela and Turki, ‘No, Dana White is not involved in the fight. You’ve got a contract that says that. He won’t be at the presser,’ blah, blah, blah. And Netflix say, ‘Oh yes, the fight is in conjunction with Dana White.’ It’s a little bit annoying, to be honest.”

He added: “As I’ve shown through the UK battle that we won, we stand by our contract, and he cannot be involved in the fight.” Hearn said he intends to take it up with the broadcaster directly, and would be speaking to Netflix “just to remind them of their contractual obligations.”

He was not finished. “When I saw the press release, I just couldn’t stop pissing myself,” Hearn said, before turning on White directly. “You’ve lost, mate. You’ve lost. You did everything you could to bring the fight to America and rob the British fight fans of the fight. Give it up, son.”

On White’s earlier claim that he knew where the fight would be staged, Hearn said: “Well you didn’t, did you? Because you said it was in Madison Square Garden.” He also took a shot at Zuffa Boxing’s upcoming London card: “You sold about 2000 tickets, you’ll be sitting there, you don’t even know who’s fighting.”

Hearn also cast doubt on the press conference, telling IFL TV the two sides are supposed to hold one next week but that he is not sure whether it will happen because there are still things being ironed out. A media alert issued Thursday by The Ring and Netflix set it for Tuesday, September 30 at British Airways Arc in London.

Frank Warren has taken the same position on White. Uncrowned reports that both Hearn and Warren say White, Zuffa Boxing and TKO are barred from promotional involvement in the event, which puts the promoters of both fighters at odds with the announcement that named White as a co-promoter.

There is a related omission. As Sky Sports noted, the statement confirming the date and venue namechecked Alalshikh, The Ring and White, but not Warren or Hearn, the long-time promoters of Fury and Joshua. Netflix’s Instagram post of the poster tagged Ring Magazine, Anthony Joshua, Dana White, Tyson Fury and Netflix Sports. Neither Matchroom nor Queensberry was tagged.

It is the continuation of a dispute that ran through September. Hearn spent weeks insisting Joshua’s contract barred White, Zuffa Boxing and TKO from involvement in the fight, at one point saying on camera that there would otherwise be no fight. White, for his part, repeatedly told reporters he would be the promoter.

Neither Sela, The Ring nor Netflix has publicly responded. White had not commented on the dispute as of Friday morning. The fight is set for the Principality Stadium, streaming live on Netflix.