Yes, maybe but this was a message from frank to Matchroom that he is well and truly back and ready to go to war for the top spot - and I’m pretty sure it will have registered with Fast Eddie who would not have been amused.
Isn't it a big song in northern ireland sporting events? Think thats why it was played. No matchroom stuff. The amount of reading into things people do makes me laugh.
I dont even think many boxing fans knew their was a show on yesterday which involved probably UK's best P4P Fighter.We need Warren to stay in the game to pressure Sky/Hearn but i really dont see Frank being able to lodge a serious threat to Matchroom.
I'm as critical of Warren as anyone on this board, but I think he gets somewhat of a pass for this round of Frampton/DeGale/Selby matchups. It's the fights after these where he needs to deliver....and I don't think he will. He's just failed to secure Linares for Flanagan, I can see Selby fighting Warrington but only because he's the mandatory. I have my doubts whether he will get DeGale a big fight and I'm pretty sure he won't get LSC for Frampton at Windsor Park. Will be happy to be proven wrong.
People saying AJ is driving most of Hearns success; pretty sure AJ had loads of offers from promoters including Warren after the Olympics. Hearn must atleast have some promoting skill to entice Joshua over the others.
With the latest news about Haye, plus Eddie having to try to controll an increasingly belligerent AJ will no doubt mean that some of the earlier posts on this thread will come back to haunt certain forum users in the new year. Frank is on the move again, and he smells blood whilst Hearn is fighting fires in all directions and at the same time trying to pretend that he will become anything more then a passing irelevance in the US market. Hearn needs to re- group and do so quickly with an anthesis of first of all delivering on high quality standard fight cards with the PPV stuff as an addition.
How’s frank on the move again? He’s just overpaid for Frampton which after Saturday looks like it could turn out to be a bad move, he’s signed these two big superstars Selby and Degale yet you can buy tickets in absolutely every section of the stadium and it’s only 7,500 capacity. Selby is even trying to sell them himself on Instagram. Frank is making progress but he’s years and years behind matchroom. He needs Dubois to dethrone Joshua in about 3 years time. That’s when the tide turns and Frank becomes the super power. If Dubois loses or doesn’t even get to that stage then it’s RIP frank.
I’ve seen this all before, if Eddie doesn’t get back to basics quickly he will be off the top spot in the near future. Frank is a Vet, no matter the trials he faces the guy keeps going and will do so even if he is facing ruin. I think of it like a game of chicken- if it was a face-off with matchroom I know it won’t be frank who swerves first. Just like he outlasted Barry who went off to do darts and snooker instead back in the 90s. Ticket sales mean very little in the grand scheme of things and in any case outside of AJ (who is starting to get increasingly testy) who is going to do tickets for Hearn?
Ask the s Ask the same thing about warren at least Hearn has someone like AJ,Warren has Frampton who is increasingly looking like a Stale Fighter.I have doubts weather Frank Can get the LSC Fight for him never mind Windsor Park as he promised
Burnett, Smith, Crolla, Brook, Quigg all sell more the copperbox holds. Frank has got 4 out of 6 of his biggest guns on this show. Selby, Degale, Yarde and Dubois (Frampton and BJS being the other two) and cant sell out a small arena in the capital (which is also where 3 of the 4 are from!). You’re right about Eddie but you’re completely wrong about Warren. A more competent promoter would have real pressure on Hearn right now.
Smith? Who Callum? The one who told Eddie to feck off when he offered him the Degale PPV and went in the super 6 instead?? Brook.lol..who in Sheffield is going to buy tickets for him again after he showed everybody his knickers against Spence?? Even Burnett is now under pressure from his own folk to fight Tete Crolla is also a bit of a myth with tickets...he sells about 10k in a 22k arena not exactly Hatton 2.0 Degale has never done tickets - that’s not why he is on the card