With things looking up for Wazza...

Frank's coming back to take what's rightfully his !

 

Tbf I don't think he'll ever pull it back with Hearn. Hes the new breed promoter, Franks finished

 

You would have to be very stupid to do business with Warren after all the fighters over the years not getting paid or short changed. Look what he did to Ricky Burns

 

This is exactly the point, Frank's stable looks good, yet Hearn has been blowing him out of the water, why? because he's better at promoting.

 

In reality who has frank got?

Degale for one fight.

Selby - Warrington? Is that really a PPV? Be a decent ish crowd at elland road but not PPV.

Frampton against nobodies isn’t gona pull in the casuals.

Saunders is only PPV if frank can make the Canelo/GGG fight. And he’s got to get past Lemieux first.

Dubois and Yarde I’m still not convinced by and even if they are the real deal they won’t be PPV ready by 2018.

What frank has done is assemble a group of decent / above average fighters but he lacks elite talent. So does Eddie really apart from AJ.

I think it will be a much better year for frank but still far off the pace compared to match room.

 

The signings are quite impressive, but will Warren be the one putting on the big shows and paying them? Saunders/Lemieux is the biggest fight involving a Warren fighter since the BT deal. With Saunders being the champion and the BT money supposedly available, shouldn't we expect this fight to be over here?

 

Will be an interesting year for Hearn as he has alot of PPV dates to fill and only 1 PPV fighter.

 

i'll be amazed if warren gets Frampton a rematch with santa cruz! wont happen

yarde would rather fight cab drivers than burton

Flanagan has had some awful title defences! when he could've unified with crolla/burns/linares, warren didn't get him the linares fight so he moves up a weight class to fight another nobody

zelfa barrett 18-0 against nobodies!

 

Fair play to warren he's took pretty much an unwinnable situation and starting to turn it around.

Disappointed in hearn recently tbh. I actually like him but he's short changing the fans now. Never really complained about his ppv,s before. Understood that if you want to see them all on shows or the bigger fights financially you have to pay. But he's getting away with murder recently. .people criticize bellew v cleverly but it was pretty much a star studded line up outside of that fight...5 or 6 established names all fighting on the bill. Degale. groves. quigg. Callum smith. McDonell. One or two more I think.

Now its buglioni...Katie Taylor. Dave Allen. Yai kafai. And some green prospects. Big difference especially when you factor in theres been a pull out on the main event. Ppv fights need to be highly competitive fights mainly as well...he's never really done that. Just stuck his better known roster on against mostly easy enough wins.

In a position now where buglionis fighting a guy that's pretty much no chance instead of facing a real challenger cause the challenger in question done him no favours in the past or something like that. On ppv its a shocking attitude.

Especially when eddies in the paper today saying the money they ve been giving for TV rights is astronomical. Like nothing we,ve ever seen before. Give buglioni a bit more money to take on the decent challenger. Instead we need to sit through him fighting a bit of a novice on Ppv.

I can see warren putting on the better shows before long. He's went from a terrible roster to a good one overnight. I can see warren getting back into it tbh...the sky deal hearn has is massive but because there's been no real competition till recently he's become complacent in terms of the British public and the fighters. Where he's giving them take it or leave it offers. Can see a few more leave its now warrens got himself in a half decent position.

Hearns lost most of the best ones anyway. Always felt eubank junior and groves we,re the two he always needed. Wouldn't surprise me to see warren working with them again. I know what's been said regarding eubank junior but warren changes like the weather if it benefits him. There's not much on eddies roster I d pay to watch tbh. Its went downhill last few years. Keeps insisting on building names using Ppv. Needs to build Kai yafai and guys like that on normal sky sports. Then they become a name to the masses. Stuck on ppv not that many know him.

 

I think Sky need to give Hearn and their ppv fighters a kick up the arse. It’s good for the ppv star to own the show the problem with one as popular us AJ he wants to keep the lion share of money for himself (can’t blame him), but then undercard budget suffers hence why world title fights are nearly always people under 9 stone or now Katie Taylor. When you get a fighter like Brook who is hdppy to be ppv Hearn has room to say I can only make you ppv with strong undercard, were as I think AJ must have a ppv only contract with him owning the bill !

 

In not sure where this 'matchroom are getting lazy' comes from.

Matchroom are expanding into the US. That's a big move. They have HBO dates and unless you think Hearn is lying US fighters want to sign up to his promotion.

 

We'll see Selby v Warrington as his first PPV of 2018, with Yarde against TBA on the undercard and the main event starting at 1:45am.

Frank is back in the game.