Eddie Hearn has sold Brook out

I'm not making excuses.

He showed heart by taking 2 huge risks which didn't work out.

GG signed to fight Eubank not Brook. Brook was offered the fight at the last moment, and to his credit he took it. And not only did he take it, he gave it is all. He didn't do it just for the payday.

I think fighting Spence was a bigger risk, just dropping back to WW without a tune up first where he could have eased back to the weight.

Yes, he has to take responsibility for his actions. But not many people would have agreed to have fought Spence coming off of surgery and a loss like that.

He rolled the dice and lost. But he deserves a lot of respect.

 

I don't understand why a fighter taking on GGG then fulfilling a mando vs a very good Spence is seen as doing something wrong.

Yes GGG was a big ask but he got offered a fight which presented a good payday and a chance to make history. Nothing wrong with taking that chance.

 

Yes and then the pound crashed and it meant the fight was going to cost a lot more than originally planned with Brook being paid significantly less than what Vargas would be. I don't blame him for not doing that fight when he wasn't going to get paid.

 

Who said they were big offers? Hearn? They are all on good money over there why on earth would they come over here for the same or even a tiny but more?

Brook should have gone to America where his division was but didn't for whatever reason.

 

Of course they were but he needed to go to America, I'm talking years before the GGG fight!

 

Well said!

 

He went to to the U.S. for Porter.

He could have made alternative decisions, but the theme by a few posters here, is that he didn't want to go and have tough fights. Yet the fact that he fought GG and Spence should prove otherwise.

Hearn should take more criticism in my opinion.

 

Brook must look back at the decision to take GGG and wonder what he was thinking. Had he just had a routine fight against a fringe contender at welter then fought Spence with his eyes intact I think he would’ve won that fight. Even if not he could’ve moved up to 154 without the reputation of being easy to stop because of dodgy orbital bones

 

Hearn doesn’t give a **** about Brook now. Compared to a few years ago when he was constantly berating Khan in public trying to make that fight. As soon as he signed Khan he hardly ever mentions it. Khan will make him more money than Brook and that’s why he now favours him. People suggesting he signed Khan so that the Brook fight would be easier to make I don’t think so at all. Khan has been clever IMO as he knows as Hearn as his promoter is no longer going to pressure him into taking that fight.

 

Short money. Until we know how short I don’t think you can say that. Bob arum said the the cost of the fight went up 40% after brexit due to the pound crashing against the dollar.

Dude still has to get paid and if the money was **** then no way he should of taken that fight

 

Eddie said in the ring on Saturday night while standing beside Khan that the Khan vs Brook fight "has to be next".

He was saying that because any live opponent can KO Khan and end his career. Khan signed a three fight deal with Matchroom, if he wants to make any money out of it he fights Brook in the third fight.

Khan vs Brook is easy to promote in the UK and does similar numbers to Haye vs Bellew. If Khan says no to a huge event he will be finished with Eddie.

 

I agree with the Hearn bit but Brook was happy staying at home too.

He gets respect for the GGG fight bit that fight would never have happened had he been in America mixing it with the top guys imo.

The Spence fight had to happen, if he ducked that he would have been a joke and lost all the fans he just gained fighting GGG. You can't fight all this bum mandos then run at the first tough one.

 

hearn will milk all fighters at home for as much as he can get
aj would be a global superstar had he gone and thought in the US, instead he's a uk superstar

brook would of been bigger than he is, if he would of fought in the US

its the same reason khan has a bit more of a following, and is a bigger name, because he went and fought some of his career in the US. sure he may not be a global supertar, but at least people have heard of him abroad.

 

What is people having heard of him abroad got him recently? Khan did well in the early part of his career and made a lot of money by being in exciting fights. That was a long time ago now.

Make a fortune fighting Brook on PPV in the UK. Or go to the USA and get ko'd by a top 20 WW in front of an empty room for peanuts. That's the choice.