I can’t dislike Eddie Hearn.

The power Hearn has over some is quite astonishing. Not only can he sell them fights they didn't want to see. He can talk them out of wanting fights they did want to see.

 

I think he is net good for boxing. He is entertaining and inclined to make good fights, with good undercards. Which is all you want from a promotor. If he entertains some people and rubs others up the wrong way, so much the better, as it means he probably gets more airtime to promote his fights.

 

You must not follow UFC too close.... Dana White makes Don King look like Martin Luther King. Bob Arum look like Bob Ross. Frank Warren look like Frank Sinatra.......lol

 

I'll trade you Eddie Hearn for Dana White, deal?

 

I'm no Dana fan, but I don't believe he's ever stomped a man to death. At least on record.

 

Yeah but he instead slapped his wife in public

 

He’s probably done more for the sport of boxing in the last decade than anyone else, particularly in the promotion game and it’s hard to argue against that.
Show me a likeable promoter and that isn’t broke, the nature of the beast is as similar to a politician as you can get.
The thing with Hearn is that he can rattle off the names of who’s fighting who on what card, when and what titles are on the line, and he does it with genuine passion and enthusiasm.
I don’t like the concept of boxing promotors the same as I don’t like the idea of football agents, but as a necessity in the sport then you have to look at what they have done to take the sport to the next level, and for that reason you can’t really knock him.
It’s difficult to dislike someone without meeting them in person but I would assume that he probably isn’t someone I would want to have a drink with.

 

People like Hearn are the reason England is now a disaster. But the lemmings will continue to be impressed by people with money and fake smiles. And you wonder why these governments do as they please with the idiot masses.

 

What make you say that? Dana is not as bad as ppl say and is great for UFC/MMA. Hearns is great also, I know it’s trendy to talk sh*t about them but both of them are great for the sport.

 

From my perspective it looked as if the Joshua story was a massive boost for boxing in britain. That would be hearn's promotion and matchmaking.

I would be very interested in british opinions on this - would the british boxing landscape, including fan interest, look the same right now, if Hearn didn't promote joshua and he might have been matched harder and have lost on his 13th fight or something?

Because british interest in boxing was probably always bigger than in other european countries - and I can't tell how much is down to Joshua's stadium filling events and a brit dominating heavyweight, acting as a role model, like he did for a while.

 

Hearn seems like a good guy to me. Always gives interviews and doesn’t dodge questions and he’s proven he’s willing to make risky fights for his fighters. There’s far worse out there than Hearn.

 

So Eddie Hearn is responsible for the cost of living crisis, mass immigration & knife crime?

Imbecile…..Eddie Hearn is the greatest promoter in history and has brought many many new eyes to the sport.

 

I've never really minded Hearn until recently. He seems to be getting more arrogant, delusional and aggressive. His eyes look crazy nowadays. Not sure what's going on with him, it seems to be since Turki got involved. Feels like he's desperate to prove he's still "the man." Probably insecurity with his current position in the sport. I much preferred the chilled Hearn that was happy to take the **** out of himself, that the British crowd used to boo and he'd just laugh it off, etc.

 

I can't stand Eddie Hearn because he has kept AJ the fraud going for so long. AJ is just a worse version of Frank Bruno, a muscle-bound body builder with poor stamina and a weak chin. By carefully matching him against guys in their 40's and having him fight quite rarely--often AJ fought just once a year--Eddie kept the hoax going for a long time. AJ's refusal to defend his HW belts, or even fight on a regular basis, was very bad for boxing when he was the HW champion. When he actually goes up against a capable boxer who isn't collecting social security, or a member of the local Weight Watcher's clubs, he looks like rotting sewage.

 

Collecting your hard earned PPV money while being resident in Monaco.

Lovely bloke.