Eddie Hearn's Big Dilemma

[Fanofreason]

Hearn could destroy the ESPN cards with the money he has, most of them are cheap tickovers for Arums fighters, 20-25% fights of any relevance. Though its starting to look like Hearn's got a billion dollars and nothing to spend it on.

Crazy when you think about it. Hearn "I've got a billion to spend on US boxing". American boxers "We don't want it"

Hearn doesn't have a billion. He is so full of crap. Its not near a billion dollar deal.

[Boxingfan8888]

Hearn had no desire to make the fight NEXT.




Not next it wasn't. Hearn admitted it wouldn't be next, which is why Wilder didn't sign.

Yes it was next, you keep spreading those lies

Hearn said it was next and Joshua will say it too when asked

Keep making those excuses for your boy, send him a pen whilst you are at it, get him to sign he contract and take his loss

[N/A]

Yes it was next, you keep spreading those lies

Hearn said it was next and Joshua will say it too when asked

Keep making those excuses for your boy, send him a pen whilst you are at it, get him to sign he contract and take his loss

what hearn says and whats in the contract arent always the same thing.

what hearn says is irrelevant if he wont put it in the contract.

[lanker rom]

Well now you're moving the goal posts.

And clearly his strategy has been to build an army of stars instead of focusing on building one superstar like Arum or De La Hoya.

What turned boxing into the niche sport it is was building around one superstar, putting him exclusively on PPV, and then everybody else makes peanuts.

If you're trying to make boxing a mainstream sport again, you're much better off having dozens of fighters who are smaller stars, but fighting for purses that a TV network can afford.

Haymon hasn't attempted to make a PPV star in the PBC era because the entire point of PBC is to get rid of PPV and build enough fighters that you can eventually have your own league that fills the calendar throughout the year with big fights.

In the hey day of PPV, a few fighters made 99% of the money and everybody else was living in poverty. In the PBC era, instead of one guy making 100 million, a hundred guys make 1 million. If you're a fighter, you'd much rather have 100x the chance of making 1 million than risking being broke if you're not the lucky chosen one anointed to make the hundred million.

No one quite knows what the goal is/was. However Richard Schaefer said ppv is never going to go away and he doesn't want it to. I think the goal is just to have a more cohesive sport that isn't ruled by a few promoters. Instead have networks be the promoters and run the sport.

[N/A]

No one quite knows what the goal is/was.

Haymon may not speak to many people, but Dibella, Espinoza, etc do. Hang around backstage at enough PBC shows for enough years and you get a pretty good idea of what the strategy is.

Boxing can never be a major sport again until the biggest fights are on CBS/FOX/etc instead of PPV. The Super Bowl isn't on PPV...

[KingHippo]

Immediately he targeted all the big Haymon guys and felt he could pry them away just as he was able to do so with Jacobs and Khan.

Al Haymon is not a promoter and Jacobs is still working with him. Hearn isn't "prying" anybody away.

[Brixxx]

Wilder should troll and ask for 20 mil plus 5% of DAZN after he beats AJ and unifies he should retire and become a promoter lol Hearns worse nightmare.

['b']

Stopped reading at "Eddie Hearn's Big Di-"

So much gayness on here

[KTFOKING]

Al Haymon is not a promoter and Jacobs is still working with him. Hearn isn't "prying" anybody away.

No, Haymon isn't working with him. Hearn said Haymon isn't involved at all with Jacobs or Khan. Dan Rafael confirmed that.

[W1LL]

Eddie Hearn's bluster usually wins out in the UK. Seems he went over to the US with the same attitude and nobody raised an eyebrow. Gonna take a bit more than just making brash statements in the press.