So why did he buy Crolla-Loma or any of the other horrendous DAZN shows he has used Sky’s money to pay for at 4am?!
I've not watched any of the interviews and have just been following some comments on Twitter and what Benson has posted. Certainly seems like Hearn has come across as an absolute ***** here. Kell is right, he bailed out Hearn big time with the Golovkin fight when the Eubanks had him by the nuts. Kell is the one who took the career-altering pasting in the ring while Hearn sat on the sidelines in his suit. Hearn talking about how he sat with Brook in the hospital, ok mate, that's pretty much a missus' duty to play night nurse but fair play. Sure that was hard work... And then talking about the Spain stabbing and helping to deal with the Spanish police. Hearn was protecting his investment in Brook there, nothing more. He had his own interests at stake there as well. Really in summary what has happened here is that Hearn and Sky have thrown their toys of the pram because Brook didn't engage them in his fight negotiations but why did he need to? He sorted the fight out without them lol. The least Hearn and Sky could have done was to put the fight on for him. He's still one of the bigger names to have boxed on Sky over the past five years. But anyway this slanging match over YouTube is just pitiful lol. As unlikely as it is I would really really love it if Brook somehow pulled off a win, became the MVP in the 147 division and told Hearn and Sky to **** off again!
Watch the interviews mate. Apparently Brook went to try and make the Crawford fight when Crawford fought Khan , without Hearn or Sky . Then when his 'team' couldn't make the fight they crawled back to Eddie to make them another fight and an easy pay day (Delcua I believe) then off to make the Crawford fight again only to come back and pitch it to Sky as a PPV, if it were viable someone would've picked it up for sure. Brook has obviously gone for the cash out and wants to save and make every penny he can and that's his right but he can't have his cake and eat it. As for Joe Gallagher he has well and truly made himself look an absolute fool imo.
Very likely this is a revenue share deal rather than Premier Sports paying anything for it, therefore Sky/Hearn are not going to dilute their PPV offering by adding this too. Pretty sure someone would've picked it up if it was a viable PPV , Premier Sports obviously cut a deal that gives them very little to no downside.
Fair enough but maybe Brook went to make the Crawford fight because he was aggrieved that Matchroom weren't pushing for it for him. Not sure what Gallagher has done, can you summarise it?
It's always the commercials in any contract. Best guess: Unlike Kell, Anthony Crolla was promoted by Hearne at the time and had been patiently built on Sky up to the fight, he then subsequently headlined a Mcr show which helped Eddie fulfil his Sky obligations. Everyone was happy. Crolla had no delusions of grandeur, he knew that Hearn had pushed him far beyond where his talent was likely to have took him. So my bet is he wasn't greedy. The DAZN shows were the result of negotiations between Hearn, Sky and DAZN. Effectively free content for Sky in return for any perceived loss as a result of fighters heading for the DAZN money. Incidentally, at that point any budget they'd previously allocated to picking up international fights from toprank or PBC went to their OB coverage of the DAZN shows.
Claiming racism for Jonas towards sky Then claiming Johnson should be fighting for straps and buatsi is favoured by sky lol
JG went on about inequality verging on racism from Sky/MR and asking have Sky cut Eddie's boxing budget as he's offering less money for behind closed doors fights, both points were countered by Eddie (and most sensible people) by saying no Sky haven't cut the budget but no fans being allowed in has obviously reduced the income for every event. The racism/inequality part is rather ironic as he moaned about would Buatsi be offered the peanuts that Callum Johnson has , rather contradicting the racism point. Eddie said he wouldn't work with JG again until he apologised for the racsim part which he duly did on a video with Danny Flexen. I admire JG's determination to stick up for his fighters even in the most bizarre battles but he does come across as hard to deal with , going by a couple of things he's alluded to it comes across as he doesn't like being told anything by Frank Smith either imo.
Lmfao JG has lost it. Buatsi is pushed because he received mainstream media attention for his punching power in the Olympics. The comment about reduced purses is beyond parody, has this guy been in a coma for the past seven months!? Anyway I love Callum Johnson, he's my favourite British boxer to watch. But he has no mainstream profile tbh. If you asked people on the street who Callum Johnson is, most people would probably think he's a striker in the Championship. Might have to watch these videos lol.
This is spot on. We've seen it before when Joshua and Whyte have gotten offers (Pulev in Bulgaria, Wilder in USA) that wouldn't include Eddie, Eddie has made his fighters turn down those offers even tho they would benefit their career. Basically if you are a Hearns fighter you aren't allowed take a career payday if Hearns isn't involved. Very controlling and jealous behaviour.
He's got a street named after him near where he lives according to JG repeating in every interview lol, so he must be well known ! Have Premier league had to take pay cuts from Sky ? have F1 ? so why should british boxing was another argument. For the record I dont think Kell has done anything wrong just that he cant expect to have it both ways imo. When Hearn WAS giving him big fights or decent money for pony fights i'm sure some of MR's fighters would have felt hard done by in comparison to Brook at the time so he can't moan now when Eddie's loyalty doesn't end with him.
Eddie's made each of those fighters stinking rich. He's taken AJ to the top of the tree and Whyte was one avoided punch away from a big money tilt at the WBC title. He didn't do it by accepting away days in Sofia that other experienced guys with alternative options also passed up on.
Hang about Brook agreed to fight Golovkin for big bucks, there was no coercion at all. The last thing Brook was doing was looking out for big time Eddie Hearn when he agreed to that fight it was dollar signs plain and simple. I don't know why it's so surprising that they've fell out, Eddie Hearn's interviews re Kell over the last couple years have shown that they're not very close, they've never spoken about each other with that level of excitement. He was defo never in that inner circle of Eddie's with the Bellews and Joshua's
Stop giving Eddie credit for fighters success. AJ would probably be undisputed champion if he had taken the Wilder fight and very rich.
