Shots fired! Ha DiBella Not Fearful of Promoter Hearn's 'British Invasion' By Keith Idec Lou DiBella is busy promoting the “Showtime Championship Boxing” 154-pound title tripleheader Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The veteran promoter still couldn’t help but notice that British promoter Eddie Hearn has been taking not-so-subtle shots at him since Hearn announced Matchroom Boxing USA signed Brooklyn’s Daniel Jacobs. DiBella didn’t hold back when contacted by *******.com. “A long time ago, Golden Boy was gonna come into New York and take it over, and they were gonna do it from East L.A.,” DiBella said, referring to Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. “And it didn’t work out so well. I’m not denigrating them as promoters, but they certainly couldn’t do it in New York. And if Eddie thinks that a rich, British prep school kid, who’s out of touch with regular people, is somehow going to change the paradigm of boxing in New York, then he’s wrong.” England’s Hearn – whose company, Matchroom Boxing, has had considerable success in the United Kingdom in recent years – told *******.com last Tuesday that other fighters seeking promoters and HBO exposure have been calling him nonstop since the Jacobs deal was announced. I doubt that Eddie’s getting nonstop calls from major stars in the U.S.,” DiBella said. “They can take a good look at how Kell Brook was promoted. Promotion is more than just publicity. Was Kell Brook’s career or well-being helped by being served up to a bigger, stronger Golovkin? Or being thrown in with a monster like Errol Spence after recovering from surgery and the injuries suffered at the hands of a man so much stronger? I hear Brook didn’t make the money he expected from those two grueling fights. “Maybe U.S. fighters will also recognize that Eddie would be unlikely to ever win a purse bid to protect their interests. It seems like the only four-letter word beginning with ‘r’ that he understands is rich, not risk. It’s also possible that these American fighters will search on YouTube for Eddie’s video responding to Deontay Wilder. Eddie, imitating his version of a stereotyped African-American voice, comes off as a bit clueless. That patronizing kind of humor doesn’t make me very concerned about his ‘British invasion.’ It makes me cringe.” (See video here: This content is protected ) DiBella also noted that Hearn has been using the most valuable boxer he promotes, heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, in negotiations involving other fights and fighters with premium-cable rivals HBO and Showtime. England’s Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) had a three-fight deal with Showtime, but the agreement allowed Hearn to shop the U.S. television rights to Joshua’s fights to HBO once it expired. HBO reportedly bid $1.6 million for the right to televise his mandatory defense of his IBF title against Bulgaria’s Kubrat Pulev (25-1, 13 KOs) on October 28 from Cardiff, Wales. Showtime exercised its right to match and will televise the Joshua-Pulev fight live later this month. “It’s clear that Eddie is dangling Anthony Joshua as the gold ring and using his name and star power to try to grab other fighters and get U.S. network backing,” DiBella said. “Joshua seems like a smart kid and his trainer, Rob McCracken, is a pro who wasn’t born yesterday. They’ll see right through it.” DiBella promotes roughly 60 fighters, including Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs), who will make a mandatory defense of his WBC heavyweight title against former champion Bermane Stiverne (25-2-1, 21 KOs) on November 4 at Barclays Center. The New York-based DiBella regularly promotes Premier Boxing Champions cards at Barclays Center and elsewhere on a show-by-show basis. The Harvard-educated former HBO Sports executive is confident he’ll continue to promote events featuring such PBC stars as welterweights Errol Spence Jr., Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia. “Why is Danny Jacobs with Eddie Hearn?,” DiBella asked. “Because he has all the attributes of the best promoter of all time? No, he’s with Eddie because he was in the right place at the right time and it allowed him to deliver an HBO deal that promised Canelo and/or Triple-G. That’s a fact, and anyone with a brain in this business knows that’s a fact. “I’m not hating him for that, nor am I hating him for promoting in this market. Eddie Hearn isn’t an American promoter or a New York promoter, or a New York City kind of guy. I doubt he has ever set foot on Long Island and he probably thinks that Brooklyn is David Beckham’s kid. I wish him no ill will, but my best guess is that he’s gonna find out the hard way and could wind up getting booed on two continents.”
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So DiBella's reasoning behind why Matchroom won't be successful stateside is that GBP essentially imploded? Good one Lou. And FWIW I couldn't give two ****s whether or not Hearn succeeds in America although I do think the promotion game needs a big shake up if boxing is to prosper.
Can tell that baldy shithouse is bricking it. Eddie's coming and he's taking over. Not only that he's going to **** DiBella's wife in his bed and all.
Wow, sour grapes. I think this all stems from DiBella being shown up that he wasn't included in the Hearn/Wilder talks a month or so back where he stated that he hadn't received any offers from Hearn for Wilder to fight Whyte at which point Wilder's team said they had been talking to Hearn about it directly....lol
He's right. Hearn has horribly mismanaged Brook, who is lucky he is not dead after his last two fights. All to serve Hearn's ambitions. He probably has Kell wash his car on the weekends too.
Nice shithouse ninja edit. Hearn isn't a small timer in the slightest, and there's a good chance he'll make waves stateside if he can continue to recruit strongly. The only time Lou will ever get 90,000 bums on seats will be the time he hosts auditions for Wilder's next voluntary.
Where is the mismanagement? You can't blame Hearn, he got Brook a world title shot and made Brook a multi millionaire. The Golovkin fight was Brooks choice, he was offered the fight and offered a shed load of money and took it, he could have said "No". Spence Jr was a mandatory, hardly Hearn's fault, Hearn repeatedly said he wanted Brook to move to 154 and Brook refused because he didn't want to be accused of ducking Spence Jr.
Eddie Hearn isn't the Beatles. He isn't even the Byrds. He'll have zero success here, as your brave prediction full of "ifs" anticipates so well.
**** this lou di bella or whoever he is,at least Hearn is exciting and is up to date with the current audience,America's biggest Promoter/powerbreaker in Boxing(Al Haymon)is not even seen and has never done,so much as a 30 second interview.In this current age,you want to feel like boxing is a night out,the old 90's stuff which this guy is stuck in dosent work now,its's 2017,wake up.Even if Eddie fails,at least his forcing the other promoters to up their game,their is only one winner from all this,the American Boxing fan,you will get more choice and have more fun with Hearn in the US scene
Speech analysis traces Eddie Hearn unique speech patterns in that video to a certain Long-Legged Goldie Mickens, he must have watched that movie a 100 times...while at prep-school