Dana White is getting two very different reviews from British heavyweight boxing in the week of September 28, and they could not be further apart.

Derek Chisora did not hold back when asked about White, telling LowKick MMA that the UFC boss is not his cup of tea. Chisora went further, saying "the way he operates is just, he operates like a slave owner, man" when describing how White runs his roster. Chisora added a blunt message for anyone White deems surplus to requirements, summing up the attitude as 'you're not good enough for me, so go away.'

On the same day, Tyson Fury was singing a completely different tune about the same man. Fury told LowKick MMA that White personally sorted out visa problems that had been keeping him out of the United States, and that the fix came straight from the top. According to Fury, 'it all got done through Dana, on Donald Trump's table.'

The contrast says a lot about how polarizing White has become outside the UFC cage as well as inside it. To Chisora, he is a figure who controls fighters with an iron grip and discards them without ceremony. To Fury, he is a problem solver with the kind of political access that can get a heavyweight champion back into the country when immigration red tape could not.

Neither boxer is signed to the UFC, so this has nothing to do with contracts or pay disputes on White's own roster. It is simply two of boxing's biggest heavyweight names offering sharply opposing takes on the same powerful figure, one accusing him of exploitation, the other thanking him for a favor that mattered.