Speaking with the Latin American media Thursday night in Las Vegas, the UFC president said that Mayweather vs. Pacquiao is as big as any other boxing super fight would be today.
"Fight of the century? I mean, seriously? Is this the fight of the century? This is a fight that people wanted to see for a long time, and boxing doesn’t do a lot of these," White said. "They used to. If you think back to the day when… Imagine if (Mike) Tyson was fighting Lennox Lewis right now. If this was a Tyson Lennox Lewis fight.