Gary Shaw’s “downsizing” to a consultant with EliteXC has been known for awhile now, but our associates over at The Sweet Science have an informative behind the scenes with one of Dana White’s biggest (and many) foils:

Shaw hopes to bring some lessons learned back to boxing. He knows that
MMA does a better job at loading pay per views with pick ‘em matches,
for one thing, but comprehends that there is a lifestyle element to
the MMA craze that isn’t present in boxing. “It’s one hundred times
easier to put butts in seats in MMA,” Shaw says.

Finally, it almost sounds like Shaw will miss his smackdowns with Dana
White; the two went back and forth via Internet-delivered putdowns
since Elite XC was born, with Shaw labeling White a greedy
megalomaniac, and White dismissing Shaw as a clueless buffoon who was
in over his head. “Shaw is a low-level bottom feeder,” White said. “He
didn’t like MMA a few years ago, but when he finally couldn’t make
money at boxing any more, he came over to this sport to try to leech
money out of it.”

“I’ve never met Dana in person,” says Shaw. “My going back and forth with him, I’ll say this…I’m a promoter. Would I break bread with him? I would, if he was buying. I heard he said some things about me in Playboy. I thank him, because without Dana White, there is no way I’d ever make Playboy.”

Truth be told, I will miss Shaw in MMA. The White vs. Shaw battles
were juicier than a number of Elite XC’s scraps.

Promoter Shaw back to boxing @ The Sweet Science