Promoter Eddie Hearn is less than a week away from the final 2020 event of his Matchroom Fight Camp series, which Hearn has staged at Matchroom's headquarters in Brentwood.
This coming Saturday night, heavyweights Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin will collide in the main event of final Fight Camp card of the year.
Hearn had the option of staging more Fight Camp events in September, but plans to end the series this weekend.
However, Hearn is looking to make the series continue in 2021 and years to come.
“We got the opportunity to do it for another month and do two more shows, but I feel it’s just been such an amazing experience, it’s time to end it next week,” Hearn said to The Mirror.
“Fight Camp will be continuing, 100%, but I feel in that four week period, with what we’ve done and the way I believe it will crescendo next week, that would be the perfect time to pull up the grass, have a drink on the patio and say, ‘we’re done until next year’. Don’t forget this is my childhood home, and it’s our headquarters so it’s something I’m very fond of. Every Monday I turn up, look outside and just say ‘I can’t believe this’.
“It’s been amazing and it’s been the best thing we’ve ever done. This whole brand will continue next year. You’ve been down in the bubble, just an amazing experience and so many stories. You get to find out these stories, you get to build fights, you get to create characters, create content and that’s what we want to do. That’s so important when you’re building a sport.
“It will be very different (in the future). We’ve done it all in quarantine so all the challenges we’ve had to overcome and we’ve still really created the perfect project. When we’ve got the chance to bring crowds in, we’ve got the opportunity to build in a mansion with tasks, interaction, more diary room stuff and day to day stuff, that’s another big opportunity.”
