Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom is very eager to bring boxing back with a big bang.

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Hearn's company was forced to postpone events all over the world. Most boxing cards were derailed  from mid-March to the month of June. 

Based on the recent statements from the British Boxing Board of Control - the return for boxing in the UK is being targeted for the month of July.

Unless something changes in a dramatic way, boxing will first return in a closed doors setting. 

Hearn is motivated to stage events without fans being present - and he's already planning to put on postponed fights like Dillian Whyte vs. Alexander Povetkin behind closed doors.

"I’ll do anything," Hearn told BBC Radio Five Live. "We’re talking to Sky and the BBC about projects.

"When we started five or six weeks ago, Zoom and TV content from that app was revolutionary, now it’s boring and everyone’s done it. Now we’ve got to go to the next level; live sport in unique surroundings under restrictions and boundaries that has to be compelling.

"There has to be a narrative; we live in a unique environment of sporting events and this will never happen again, touch wood, so this back story, it’s going to be like the Fyre Festival but more successful.

"There’s going to be disasters; people having to pull out, it’s going to pour with rain, but that’s what we’re going to create. We don’t want it to be easy or boring, I want it to go down in history. The only way you do that is by creating an environment of total madness. My old man said, 'Are you mad, you don’t need extra risk on top of what we got', but I said if we do what everyone else does, that’s boring.

"We got to be groundbreaking, I want drones flying over the top from this facility. We’ll have our own fireworks, it's got to have our stamp on it."