Hearn Interview proves top Welters were avoiding Brook

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by granth, Jul 12, 2016.


  1. granth

    granth Well-Known Member Full Member

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    In the recent iFL TV interview (which by the way is really interesting as it goes into details about how he manages PPV budgets as well as showing how mental Eubank Sr is):

    Offered Vargas 2 mill plus 50% of US TV revenue.
    Offered Broner 3 mill.
    Offered Garcia north of 3 mill.

    Silly money and yet no fights could be made. Bunch of duckers.
     
  2. perfitt93

    perfitt93 Member Full Member

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    Yeah really good insight to how the show budgeting works. Got to like fast car for his willingness to talk about these things
     
  3. Setanta

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    its a known fact that brook was being avoided at welter
     
  4. Jeremy Kyle

    Jeremy Kyle Well-Known Member Full Member

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    hes a massive welter
     
  5. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Brook was a high risk/low reward fighter for the US guys hence why the avoided him. If he beat them, their drawing power domestically would have reduced dramatically.
     
  6. kobashi

    kobashi Well-Known Member Full Member

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    and for the people who scream brook should have gone to the USA etc etc.

    All the above were offered fights in the states also. Kell is the avoided guy at 147. nobody wants to fight him.

    is it any surprise he jumped at the GGG fight when he constantly gets knock back after knock back from opponents.
     
  7. Gneus7

    Gneus7 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    "Do you think about your legacy when you're sitting in the office?" :rofl
     
  8. Angler Andrew

    Angler Andrew Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yes for all folk on forums who claim Kell Brook ducks and has no talent ect all one has to do is listen to the other fighters comments about Brook,it's clear that they rate him and don't want him,did we hear Thurman call out Brook after the Porter win?no cause he knows Garcia is easy for him compared to Brook.
     
  9. Hatesrats

    Hatesrats "I'm NOT Suprised..." Full Member

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    No Thurman or Spence?
     
  10. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    No they weren't .

    They were all made only on the basis they traveled to the UK.

    They didn't offer Thurman nothing. Not even a fight over here. Nobody is ducking Brook. NOBODY.
     
  11. critix

    critix Boxing Addict Full Member

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    even if we agree he is being avoided which i dont, he has only himself to blame

    on record of ducking timothy bradley before he got the belt,what happened with alexander? oh yea he faked an injury, what happened with diego chaves? oh yea he faked an injury. what happened with rios? when it happens again and again sometimes you have to realize something else is wrong

    this ggg fight, i would not be surprised if he pulls out with an injury
     
  12. Gneus7

    Gneus7 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hearn mentioned Thurman in the previous interview they did with him.

    Prior to that Hearn has said they offered Spence a fight but was turned down, Spence denied this. Spence obviously has his final eliminator coming up too so that fight is still possibly in the pipe line.

    Vargas obviously made the most sense if Garcia and Thurman were not interested as he also holds a title. Obviously money meant that didn't happen. He had the choice between:

    Risk his title against Vargas for small money and the chance to become unified champ or...

    keep his title and fight Golovkin for big money and the chance to become 2 weight champ and earn a huge amount of respect.
     
  13. kobashi

    kobashi Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Eddie Hearn told them all Brook would go the states and he was told the money isn't there to put on the fight.

    Also Thurman just fought Porter or did you somehow miss that.

    Eddie tried to make fights with fighters who were available was rebuffed on all of them apart from Vargas who wanted to be greedy.
     
  14. Puroresu_Fan

    Puroresu_Fan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Irrelevant. Neither would make that kind of money fighting anyone else in the US.

    If Brook wasn't such a threat they would be on the first flight to Heathrow.

    The fact they all turned down such a payday shows they don't want it with Special K.
     
  15. kobashi

    kobashi Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ha... yeah I want to see one credible source on how he faked injury. Just find me one source.

    Just because you say it was fake doesn't make it true.

    Also Rios pulled out negotiations to fight Bradley not the other way round. Oh and he earned way less fighting Bradley by the way.

    Rios was looking to get out of that fight day 1 with his moaning about the British boxing board banning the gloves he fought with.