The inclusion of ring card girls at big combat sports events has been a custom for decades, but that could now be another change fans will have to get used to following Zuffa Boxing 10.
Zuffa Boxing is Dana White‘s new passion, seemingly pouring his all into the resurection of a once beautiful sport. White and his partners have an idea on how to make their promotion click; signing big names and putting on even bigger fights is one way to grab fans’ attention and steal viewers from the competition. However, for what seems like the first time in modern history, a global boxing event didn’t feature ring girls, but the reason why is highly unusual.
Callum Walsh remained undefeated, strolling his way to a unanimous decision, while fellow countryman Aaron McKenna handed prospect Etinosa Oliha his first professional loss on his way to capturing the vacant IBF world middleweight title. It’s safe to say Zuffa Boxing 10 didn’t disappoint, delivering a massive night of fights at the 3Arena on Saturday. However, boxing tradition was missing one key component.
The ring aprons were bare after the exclusion of ring card girls. Appearing ringside on a live broadcast with the popular Nina Drama, White was questioned about why the event lacked its usual ring card girls. As he has come accustomed to, White did not hold back his frustrations, saying:
“Don’t even get me started,” White said in response to the lack of ring card girls at Zuffa Boxing 10. “The UK won’t use ring card girls unless you have ring card boys.”
His outrage was matched by Nina Drama, who labeled the thought of having ring card boys weird and perverted.
While there is no actual law requiring ring card boys, some European broadcasters and venues push modern equality guidelines, pressuring promotions to display an equal number of ring card girls as ring card boys. Dana White rejected the notion and scrapped them entirely for his show on Saturday.
Dana White just said the UK didn’t allow ring girls unless they included ring boys too 😭
“Don’t even get me started…” pic.twitter.com/UhQraoJU4w
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) August 8, 2026