Eddie Hearn on Joshua's fight with Hrgovic: 'I know what the world will say, but here's the plan'

Makes sense. A good fight in every aspect.

 

Seems like a good move. AJ - Hrgovic or AJ - Zhang are the fights I want to see. Fury will probably retire after the Usyk fight(s) anyway.

 

Not a bad plan

 

Fury & Usyk will retire hand in hand, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, belly to belly.

If they hide AJ in cotton wool for long enough when them belts retire with Fury then he can just buy one and pretend to be a champion like he has been doing his entire career. Useless Bodybuilder.

 

And yet, AJ has more and better wins than what Fury currently has. Hell, Terrence Crawford has a better resume than Fury, and you dog him.

 

100 years from now who will talk about Terence Crawford? Nobody.

But people will talk about The Gyspy King till the dusk of time and that was Tyson Fury.

 

But a mega rich one

 

Delusional

 

Promotional British slickness. Easy tuneup fight for AJ before Hrgovic. Like it.

 

Plan is probably okay but Hrgovic should fight someone like Parker, Zhang, Dubois in the meantime rather than ******* Mark De Mori who is ranked 350th in the world.

 

Possibly. But he still has some time on his side. And you might be right, people will talk about Fury. But not in the sense of his greatness. Moreso just because he was big. Fury has a weak resume no matter how you cut it.

 

Hearn is a true salesman.

Of course he knows what the critics will say, because they'd say the same about any fighter and his manager on the same lame path.

Hearn has Joshua fighting a series of fights against guys best known for losing to names --
* Franklin (coming directly off loss to Whyte),
* Helenius (coming directly off a KO1 loss to Wilder),
* Wallin (best known for losing to Fury),
* Ngannou (0-1, coming directly off loss to Fury) ...

While waiting for one (if Usyk wins) or most (if Fury wins) of the belts to become vacant days after the unification.

Any other fighter in any other division, where you fight a bunch of well known victims, and then bide your time waiting for the guy who beat you to vacate ... they call that spade a spade, and Hearn knows it.

Truth is, Joshua isn't waiting to FIGHT HRGOVIC ... any more then he was waiting a full year to FIGHT WILDER.

The IBF will likely already be vacated by the time Joshua and Hrgovic fight in separate fights on March 8. (The IBF only waited 10 days to strip Fury last time.)

If Joshua was going to fight Hrgovic, he'd fight him March 8 for a ton of money when the IBF belt will likely already be vacant.

When Hearn says a fight will "probably" come next after the one they just signed, it means it's not happening.

They're going to fight Ngannou, then wait to see how many vacant belt opportunities pop up.

When Joshua signs to fight Bakole or the Syrian fighter Charr for the WBA belt in the summer, Hearn will say, "winning a title was the plan, not necessarily fighting Filip Hrgovic."