Eddie Hearn is a dunce

Hearn made the classic casual error of under estimating the short fat bloke, when drafting in the replacement.

It isnt the kind of error that a real boxing man would have made in terms of a US debut, where you have to see whether your fighter is able to perform away from home or not.

 

Ruiz at the time was considered an easy touch that's why they picked him in the first place.

 

The thing is Hearn pocked Ruiz because he thought he’d be blown away. They ruled out Hunter because he “moves too much”.

 

Yup.

Someone the likes or Robert Helenius would have been ideal

 

Robert>Tom

 

Wilder and Joshua don’t get passes for fighting a bum, Fury meanwhile, seems to get endless passes. Seferi, Pianetta, Schwarz......

 

I don't see anyone really giving Fury a pass. The overriding mood on here seems to be - Fury looked very good even if the opponent was poor and people hope he fights someone of a higher level before taking on Wilder. Don't think anyone can argue with that really.

 

To be fair, he was out of the ring for almost 3 years and up at 380+ pounds, so people expected a few bum fights when he came back.

No one's giving him a pass though. He fought a bum. Everyone agrees he fought a bum. It does nothing for his career resume. Just another bum on his record. No passes given. There's not much else to say.

 

He had to fight someone meaningful on his US debut or else what was the point in just knocking over some bum no ones heard of

No one expected Ruiz to do what he did, let’s not forget Joshua had him down and ended up getting done because he followed it up by fighting stupid

That loss was AJ/his teams fault, no one else’s

 

The real mistake Hearn made was disrespecting Fury, not understanding how great he is with common people and promotion, and failing to sign him when he had ample chance. Instead his ego and alliance with Superior got in the way. Just think, Hearn and DAZN could have been promoting Fury in Murrica right now instead of Arum and ESPN capitalising. People talk about how great Hearn is as a businessman ... Fury was one of the most obvious 'rough diamonds' you could find in the star making business, a guy that had thousands of people spontaneously following him down the street like he was the pied piper, and when Mick was out the way, Tyson was there for the taking. Yet all Hearn could do was mock Fury for wanting some easy tune-ups after people like Hearn himself were saying he'd trashed his body so much he might not be able to box at elite level again, all he could think of was setting up Fury as an AJ opponent or getting him out the way with an early tough fight.

 

Exactly, imagine the reaction if Eddie had picked Tom schwarz as an opponent for Joshua. It had to be somebody fairly high up in the rankings. I think Tyson gets away with it more because he’s still just come back and he doesn’t actually have a belt. He’s not defending anything.

 

Right....
Hearn has done nothing but manage people straight to the bank! You lot are mental thinking that earning comparative peanuts fighting bums is preferable to actually having a respectable boxing career.
Some of you are in fantasy land imagining your favourite undefeated fighter is unbeatable.
There is no fighter in history who didn't lose or come very close if they were fighting the best available consistently.
Fury has a lot to prove yet.

 

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