"Sky blocking AJ by paying him more" - Eddie Hearn

Eddie Hearns sounds very bitter with this comment. It's like he believes DAZN should have have had God given right to broadcast the fight. I am guessing he actually thought once AJ signed with DAZN sky would not bother going big for the Usyk fight.

Its really strange as it was Adam Smith and Sky who were left with no fighters and recently lost there biggest draw in AJ but Smith doesn't sound bitter and says only good things about DAZN and Eddie.

Eddie left sky for the bigger pay deal, took his fighters and now he finally got AJ with him also long term and its him who is the bitter one.

Sky must be giving him nightmares or something as Eddie and DAZN now know they competing with the biggest sports broadcaster in Europe and they are not just laying down. They see a fighter coming to end of matchroom deal and they are offering deals Eddie and DAZN won't match. The same with the recent Olympic amateurs. There is no way Eddie and DAZN would have predicted that sky would be fighting back so hard this soon.

The next few years could end up going down as Hearns trickiest and challenging period of his time in the boxing game. He has never had rival like sky to deal with in the UK.

 

You need to watch the clip to see the quote has been taken out of context.

The words "sky blocking AJ by paying him more" do not exist.

He makes it clear the DAZN deal was done knowing the Usuyk fight wasn't part of it.

The host then asks the question "don't you think the other broadcaster is doing it as more of a spiteful thing.

Hearn then responds" yes but that's just the business we are in"

Benson has taken a quote and atrritbuted it to AJ fighting on sky when the quote was on the business in general.

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4:20 onwards. Benson is being clever when Hearn doesn't even mention sky.

 

No one subscribing to your channel, no one buying tickets for your shows, shite cards, fighters leaving for Sky, your Marquee fighter and biggest fight being put on a rival network, massive losses, flogging off shares from the profitable parts of your business to equity firms - all parts of Eddie Hearn's master plan. He knows what he's doing.

So be careful saying anything less than positive about the business dealings of Hearn and Matchroom (even if what you say is comply true) because you'll get reported by certain posters and mods seem happy to oblige.

 

No there is a different interview where he seems to be annoyed sky went in hard for the fight.

Plus you agree that Eddie now believes sky are doing this in general out of spite. Regardless if it is not for AJ fight that comes across pretty pathetic and is ridiculous. The idea that a Big powerhouse like sky are now in the boxing business out of spite is laughable. Why would anyone try and defend hearn after a comment like that I don't know.

If Warren made the same comment there is not a chance the same people would be defending him like they do with hearn. I am a big fan of Eddie but I can blatantly see when he comes out with silly comments.

Hearn is just surprised sky are not laying down and letting DAZN get what they want.

The video below you see he actually suggests sky are covering the fight just to get one over DAZN. Also why does Eddie constantly say I not involved so have no idea if sky got the fight. Is he actually suggesting the Saudi people never talked to the losing bids.

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There is zero chance that Sky are throwing tens of millions of pounds around due to spite!

 

I'm giving Hearn one cent of credit in that he shouldn't be anywhere near DAZN's bids for rights that don't have anything to do with Matchroom.

It's barely credible that he wouldn't have at least informed any bid and that DAZN wouldn't keep the promoters informed but ultimately it was between Saudi and the broadcasters so maybe Hearn's telling the truth for once. It's hard to tell though.

 

Hearn got stitched up like a kipper by the Saudis. He's clearly out of his depth with people like that.

 

There hasn't been an official announcement yet so even if he does know he can't say. I would assume the Saudis have told all bidders to not say anything officially until they say so.

Hence why Adam Smith has done the same thing when asked. He hasn't confirmed the fight is on sky and he would know but he has probably been told to not say a word.

I was just referring to the quote as it was clearly about the boxing business and not specifically sky. Hearn has said a lot more specifically about PBC and others trying to not work with Matchroom in the US and Benson knows that.

Again it wasn't said sky are in the boxing business out of spite. What he said was and has said this previously that the UK market now has promoters ready to pay over the odds to sign fighters. The Whitaker deal alone tells us this as his deal is bonkers.

It's not a bad thing though as the fighters won and sky are clearly thinking long term ready to pay big now.


Saying sky are prepared to take a loss is simply looking at the rights going for £30 mil and then using that figure to determine how many ppv buys would be required to break even. That's not crazy that's just simple economics.

The same was done for white v Fury after the winning purse bid.

 

I doubt AJ or matchroom accounts will think so once they take there cut.

AJ and Usuyk (as he seems to be forgotten) are laughing all the way to the bank.

Rememeber Whyte turned down an AJ fight as he wasn't happy that a 3rd fight would be split 50/50 even if Whyte won the 2nd fight.

Usuyk on the other hand was happy to accept 50/50 and the end result is he gets a huge slice of the all this revenue making mega money.

It made no sense for Whyte to refuse a 50/50 with AJ when that 50% would still trump any earnings fighting someone else.

Usuyk however realised AJ is a commercial giant and 50% was a tremendous deal.

 

I do not understand why Eddie Hearn / Matchroom is not ready to offer the boxers more money ? It may be that the boxers are overpaid right now but Matchroom will have to get into the fight and start punching. They must send a signal to DAZN's owners and the outside world that they have not given up beforehand. It seems a little hopeless right now.

 

Whyte wasn't offered 50-50 on a potential rematch (3rd fight). Joshua was to get "the lion's share"

What is strange about the Usyk contract is that as mandatory, he didn't need to sign up for a rematch clause at all

 

The irony of Hearn saying Sky are going to lose money (a few million if they do at all) when DAZN have lost billions what an absolute lemon.

 

But from what I can gather, DAZN are brand new over here and Sky don't have Joshua locked down. So I fail to see how it's not bad business from Sky.

 

That was the initial offer but eventually they agreed on 50-50 and whyte still ducked it. No coincidence he pissed dirty in the build up to his next fight.

 

Stitched up by getting 80m+ out of them? Hope I get stitched up soon.