The UFC president's new boxing promotional arm has signed a broadcast deal with Sky Sports and White has declared that he will take his MMA approach to the squared circle.

White told Sky Sports: "It's not rocket science, we want to put on the best possible fights with the best fighters in the world.

"Everybody's undefeated in boxing, that's going to change over the next couple of years. You know, if you look at how the UFC was built, I took everything that I loved about boxing and everything that I hated about boxing when building that business.

"So if it works so well for the UFC, it should work even better for boxing."

Zuffa Boxing has made an instant impression by signing up Conor Benn and Jai Opetaia and White has hinted that more names will follow the pair.

He said: "Guys are running through the office every week in Vegas and we had a lot of meetings out here yesterday too, so the answer is yes.

"We're going to continue to sign not only the best fighters in the world, but fighters that we believe have the potential to be world champions someday."

White has been the figurehead of the UFC for the past quarter of a century but credits his rise in combat sports to boxing.

The executive said: "I wouldn't be where I am today without boxing. Boxing is where it all began for me and, I was training guys and in the boxing business and I started taking jiu-jitsu.

"Then through that, I started to manage some fighters in the UFC. I found out the UFC was in trouble and that it was for sale and me and my partners bought it back in 2001.

"Fast forward to today and here I am getting back into the sport of boxing, which I always believed I would. There was a few years there I wasn't very sure, but I love the sport and I think that me and the team that I have built can do some good things for the world."