Hearn "Spat Out His Coffee" After Hearing Amir Khan's Demands

By Elliot Foster

Eddie Hearn has broken his silence about negotiations for one of Britain’s most highly anticipated showdowns.

The Matchroom Boxing chief, who promotes IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook, revealed all about a potential super fight with former world ruler Amir Khan.

Hearn took to Twitter in response to Khan casting doubt over the clash to offer a new deal to the Bolton man after he said that all parties, apart from belt holder Brook, wanted the fight.

“Negotiations started before Christmas,” Khan wrote on Twitter, “I had a good chat with him at the [Callum] Smith [against Rocky Fielding] fight in Liverpool [on November 7].”

The fight looked close to being finalised when it emerged that Hearn had reserved Wembley Stadium for June 4, but he has now offered Khan the bigger side of the bargain in a bid to make the WBC mandatory agree to the fight.

“I was asked not to say anything in media regarding our negotiations [for the fight],” Hearn said, “but [I] guess that's been breached. On Monday, I met with [Amir Khan’s] lawyer.

“He asked for a £10million guarantee with the upside [of the deal] to fight Brook, with Kell getting approximately £2-2.5million.

“After I spat my coffee out, we said ‘no thanks.’”

Hearn had more to say on the matter and after Brook himself got in on the act and told Khan, via social media, to “put up or shut up” regarding the latest offer of a 60-40 purse split.

“Since [the meeting with Khan’s lawyer], I have been in discussions with [American adviser] Al Haymon’s team to try and get this made. We are willing to take the smaller split to get this made but enough of the insults.

“[Amir], we will make this easy for you: 60-40 [split] in your favour and you [take the fight].”