Bold Prediction - Matchroom and Queensbury to Merge.

I don't see it happening, but then again Hearn has always said he wants to get out of the game at 50, Frank is getting old, not sure if he wants to be the UK's version of Bob Arum working in his 80's. If the Saudis came up with a huge offer for the companies, but giving Warren and Hearn shares and senior positions to people like George and Francis Warren as well as Frank Smith, maybe that's a possibility.

 

Yeah, especially when AJ and Fury are retired, there isn't any stadium fillers left, so if there's a big bag from Saudi to essentially take over their stables, i see it happening, if we had said 15 months ago we would be in the position we're in now, you'd have been laughed at, a lot can change in a year or 2.

 

Matchroom is a pretty tangled web where Hearn has talked about building and exiting a 5 billion company.

If the whole DAZN / Saudi takeover of boxing actually worked, and Matchroom came out with a stake in it and Matchroom Media with some kind of global TV rights deal attached, maybe he wouldn't be far off. And then of course other Matchroom businesses then do deals in Saudi, there's kind of a flywheel effect there which might just lead to them getting out.

Maybe there's a merger potential with the likes of Endeavor / TKO like WWE did?

 

They already have "merged" in the sense they both work under turkey al el al SHAKERs blood money holding company.

 

We are more likely to see new brand name Riyadh Bloodsports buy out both Eddie and Frank with both brands disappearing into Boxing Heaven along with Frank Maloney, Hayemaker and Hatton promotions.

 

I see the same happening. They will retain a 10-20% stake for sentimental reasons and be given certain roles. Well done to the lads. The Hearns are the best father/son duo in sports. They haven't lost a coin in decades due to their shrewd moves. Barry did well for a auld post war londoner with nothing to his name.

 

Not even close to John and Tyson Fury or the Zoo family from Australia

 

Well yeah this is pretty much it. There’s not really any need for them to merge while they’re happily working together under the Saudi banner and everyone’s got the blood money rolling in. And if that ever goes belly up, you’d presume they’d just go back to operating their separate ways.

 

These Arabs. They're only your friend if you do everything they say. Because they're paying you a sht load of money. Once you put their noses out of joint, someone like Turki would have diplomatic immunity if something went terribly "wrong".

They're nice to Westerners. That's it. Ask everyone in that part of the world how they treat South Asians, Filipinos, Africans and the Nepalese people.

Don't fall for the "Oh the hospitality there is great" like that greasy fried onion, Spencer Brown waffles on about.

That's the amazing hospitality you're receiving from the above nationalities I've mentioned, that makes their stay comfortable. These Arab men and women are arrogant tossers, unless there's something in it for them.

 

Make sure you join me and never set foot in Saudi.

If so you will be arrested, locked up, tortured, taken to the human butchers after having been forced to watch every televised female boxing fight.

 

You wear Tyson Fury aftershave!

BAZZA and EDUARDO are money making machines. The Furys crap in a hole in the ground. The ZOOZ are sausages.

 

Pretty racist comment that auld lad.

 

Money making is a sport now according to you Eddie - looking at your money making sport, the Hearns are English Area Title.

 

And richer than both dysfunctional families glued together you peasent.

 

That is nothing more than Hearn’s version of Bellew. His mountainous ego wouldn’t function without a camera on him nearly every day of the week.