Why so much hate for Eddie Hearn?

Its mostly pantomime hate, he is a siver spoon London type with the money and pin stripe suits, its what we do. He seems to be giving us a higher quality of fight compared to alot of these modern day promotors and we really appreciate it but as a pin stripe managment type its just standard to not like him and not trust him.

 

Stubhub

 

He's doing a good job. Bit smarmy but aren't all promoters !

 

I like Hearn he's got that arrogant steeze.

 

and the Aston Martin DB11, which really pisses me off.

seriously, when Hearn makes these fairly bold statements--like the night before the GGG-Brook fight in which he tweeted that GGG definitely seemed to be ill--is he just speaking his mind, or is he just a non-stop bullshitter (ie, "promoter")?

in any event, the man does a hell of a Chris Eubank Sr impression

 

Unsure what "steeze"* is but Hearn is likeable, I'll call it smarm-charm.



*I Remember a song by GangStarr though.

 

It means style with ease.

 

Exactly this. He makes money from the secondary market as well (stubhub). Smart and good for him, but not that appealing to the final consumers.

 

because he is a ****

 

Jealousy mainly. He's revitalised boxing in the UK.

 

"breath of fresh air" I hate this, it's so meaningless.

So I don't know how many of you guys are from the UK, but I am so I will try to point the view across as to why he's disliked.

Firstly, StubHub. StubHub are a Matchroom partner. Quite often Matchroom shows will 'sell out' ridiculously quickly and then a lot of tickets appear on StubHub for silly prices. In fact the Matchroom Twitter account even promoted those a few days after saying the show was sold out. Most of us assume a lot of the tickets go direct to StubHub and the profits are shared, but if not then this is still encouraging people to pay insane prices for a sport which has primarily been for the working class.

PPV. It's a sensitive subject in the UK. Now I know in the US and Canada you lot have to pay for some stupid PPV's too but bear in mind the majority of Sky customers already pay 80-100 pounds a month for the Sky subscription so feel a bit annoyed at having to fork out extra for a fight like Kell Brook-Frankie Gavin. We have a different market here. People don't mind paying for to quality matches or fights where an expensive foreign fighter is brought over, but there's a lot of trash there and the money rarely trickles down to the undercard.

The way fighters are promoted and their careers are managed bothers people too. Let's take the most obvious example. PAUL ****ING SMITH. This man has done nothing in his career to earn a Euripean title shot never mind numerous world title shots. It seems he will next fight for the 'regualr WBA 168 world title despite not fighting at that weight in years. Obviously that is owing to Hearn's influece (££££) and people quite rightly dislike that. Moreover, he seems more intent on promoting 'personalities' than actual fighters. It feels like any domestic clash that Hearn oversees will start from silly Twitter argument to create 'beef' for the fans. It's bull****.

It will sound elitist but I really don't care; Hearn's whole setup is aimed at the casual market. I want to see fights that are close, competitive and fighters earning their shots at titles. I don't want to see fights like Ohara Davies against a shot Derry Matthews at a weight he's never fought at in his career because they had a Twitter row.

Oh, and The Hearns killed Leyton Orient.

 

Yea I'd say stubhub is the main issue. There's no reason for matchroom to be associated with them if he truly cares about boxing which he likes to remind us of constantly.

The bloke does more interviews than his fighters. Yes it is sometimes interesting to get his perspective from a promotional point of view but he clearly more interested in promoting himself rather than his fighters.

 

He is a bigger attention seeker then that tramp jordan.