is eddie hearn the best promoter in boxing right now

Absolutely.

Being a promoter is all about being able to sell and market a product and getting people to buy it. Nothing more than that. You have to be a top salesman to be a top pomoter; the two go hand in hand.* And Britain wasn't a great market five years ago, as I already explained. He's taken boxing from small halls and leisure centres on a Friday nights and made Saturday night cards at big arenas a regular occurance. There's a world title fight (yes, I'm aware of the proliferation of 'world titles' nowadays) headlining almost every one of these cards, whereas before we were getting British and commonwealth title fights at best. He's effectively tapped into the young, casual audience that virtually every other promoter in the world has failed to attract. This has been his biggest success he has managed to market his events as part of a night out which people with little interest in boxing want to go to he talks about it himself in this interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi3A8swuZbw

Eddie is makeing money form himself and his fighters,his building them up into stars easy,his up there for sure.

I'm not from the UK and only been following the UK scene the last 3-4 years so you'd probably know better then me and for sure HEARN deserves some credit but to claim he's the best in the game isn't true. He has a great market to work with and usually gives them avg at best fights and fans still eat it up. He goes after weak champions or domestic fights to build his fighters up and avoid the top level guys. But acts like he wants to put them in with best and then switches them for a sub par opponet Hes a decent salesman, but he also a 2nd generation promoter who's Dad was one of the top in the game I'm sure having those built in connections and structure in place made it easier to secure a sky deal. Being a promoter is all about being able to sell and market a product and getting people to buy it. Nothing more than that. You have to be a top salesman to be a top pomoter; the two go hand in hand.* And Britain wasn't a great market five years ago, as I already explained. He's taken boxing from small halls and leisure centres on a Friday nights and made Saturday night cards at big arenas a regular occurance. There's a world title fight (yes, I'm aware of the proliferation of 'world titles' nowadays) headlining almost every one of these cards, whereas before we were getting British and commonwealth title fights at best. He's effectively tapped into the young, casual audience that virtually every other promoter in the world has failed to attract.

I'm not from the UK and only been following the UK scene the last 3-4 years so you'd probably know better then me and for sure HEARN deserves some credit but to claim he's the best in the game isn't true. He has a great market to work with and usually gives them avg at best fights and fans still eat it up. He goes after weak champions or domestic fights to build his fighters up and avoid the top level guys. But acts like he wants to put them in with best and then switches them for a sub par opponet Hes a decent salesman, but he also a 2nd generation promoter who's Dad was one of the top in the game I'm sure having those built in connections and structure in place made it easier to secure a sky deal. Being a promoter is all about being able to sell and market a product and getting people to buy it. Nothing more than that. You have to be a top salesman to be a top pomoter; the two go hand-in-hand. And Britain wasn't a great market five years ago, as I already explained. He's taken boxing from small halls and leisure centres on a Friday nights and made Saturday night cards at big arenas a regular occurance. There's a world title fight (yes, I'm aware of the proliferation of 'world titles' nowadays) headlining almost every one of these cards, whereas before we were getting British and commonwealth title fights at best. He's effectively tapped into the casual, young audience that virtually every other promoter in the world has failed to attract. He's generated probably more money for Sky than any other promoter over the last fifteen years.

Yup. I saw this interview and changed my tune on him too. To answer the original question - yes, he absolutely is the best promoter in boxing right. He has almost single-handedly turned British Boxing into a boom time. I mean, he's just signed freaking Luis Ortiz FFS. He goes to all his fighters fights, he loves the sport, he is intelligent and charismatic. But most importantly, he understands how to run the sport in a modern landscape. Sure, he has Sky Sports to promote his fights but let's give him credit for that too. Arum has lost his touch, Haymon is a clueless fraud who has pissed $400m up the wall with little gains, all the other promoters and companies are small players with maybe one big fighter. It is literally one of the best most candid boxing interviews I have seen. I agree he is the best promoter in boxing at the moment, people complaining about the quality of some of the fights he makes are somewhat justified but they forget his job is two part, he makes and chases good dangerous fights, he takes risks with his fighters, but he also makes them wealthy, and he runs an open book policy so its really a partnership that he has with his fighters. Hearn basically ticks most of the boxes that a boxing promoter is supposed to in his job description. I am glad he is looking after the last stage of Ricky Burns career for example, he would have ended up retiring bankrupt with Warren. I think Hearn will get Burns in a position that he can retire financially secure, which after the career he has had would be a crying shame if he didn't.

There's a reason Hearn was given an exclusive deal in the first place, and it was because Sky wasn't happy with the content that other promoters were producing. Sky boxing was in the toilet and they were seriously contemplating pulling the plug on it all together at one point. Boxing in Britain is unquestionably in a much stronger, healthier state now than it was five years ago, and that has directly coincided with Hearn's emergence. I'm not from the UK and only been following the UK scene the last 3-4 years so you'd probably know better then me and for sure HEARN deserves some credit but to claim he's the best in the game isn't true. He has a great market to work with and usually gives them avg at best fights and fans still eat it up. He goes after weak champions or domestic fights to build his fighters up and avoid the top level guys. But acts like he wants to put them in with best and then switches them for a sub par opponet Hes a decent salesman, but he also a 2nd generation promoter who's Dad was one of the top in the game I'm sure having those built in connections and structure in place made it easier to secure a sky deal.

He is the most consistent that is for sure but he too can use better match up which will come I'm sure but UK Boxing is growing while boxing in America is going in the wrong direction and continues to decline Getting GGG to go to the UK to fight Kell Brook was a momentum shift for him and UK boxing. It was a major step in becoming the new Mecca of Boxing!

You can sell anything to the uk fans and they'll buy it. He has it easy. And, this^. I present exhibit #1; "Haye Day". Exhibit 2; "Haye Day II" Not hating, happy that boxing is having a resurgence there. But, I think Lennox Lewis and Frankie Bruno could have a scat fight and it would sell out the O2.

The thing I do not like about matchroom boxing is that they do not put the co-main event just before the main event. They put it two or three fights before the main event. It's to get other fighters exposure and people into the arena and watching on TV, rather than just paying attention for the last two fights, which usually happens. I understand that from their perspective really.

The thing I do not like about matchroom boxing is that they do not put the co-main event just before the main event. They put it two or three fights before the main event.

You can sell anything to the uk fans and they'll buy it. He has it easy.

Garbage. Every bit the lying scumbag DLH is, and lacks the occasional candor of an Arum. Likes his fighters to get a belt through the easiest route possible then fight cans as long as they can get away with it. He's successful though, can't take that away from him. Watch the interview I put up, its long, but its worth it. You might feel differently afterwards, but there is lots of good content in there anyway.

Garbage. Every bit the lying scumbag DLH is, and lacks the occasional candor of an Arum. Likes his fighters to get a belt through the easiest route possible then fight cans as long as they can get away with it. He's successful though, can't take that away from him.

He has a strange way of working too with some fighters. The likes of Brook, Bellew and a few others actually have no contract with him at all. I think only Joshua has a contract with him for X amount of fights and maybe he does with fighters coming up, but more established older ones like Bellew, they just have a gentleman's agreement kind of thing.

If you put any other promoter worth a damn and gave him a sky deal they'd be able to make as good if not better fights and be just as sucessful There's a reason Hearn was given an exclusive deal in the first place, and it was because Sky wasn't happy with the content that other promoters were producing. Sky boxing was in the toilet and they were seriously contemplating pulling the plug on it all together at one point. Boxing in Britain is unquestionably in a much stronger, healthier state now than it was five years ago, and that has directly coincided with Hearn's emergence.

Oh sh.it I forgot about Quigg / Frampton which was a great fight But Hearn had years to make that fight and couldn't until Frampton signed with Haymon

Not a chance He great at promoting and has a great base to do so but his fights aren't all that Froch / Groves = great domestic fight Brook / Gennady /Gavin/ 2 no names that I forget at the moment Joshua / Whyte / Martin / Breazeale Corolla / Linares Bellew / Makabu / Flores Selby / Gradovich Eubank / O'sullivan Some decent domestic fights but how many of those are great fights best vs the best? None , he just has a great platform with sky and a great fanbase If you put any other promoter worth a damn and gave him a sky deal they'd be able to make as good if not better fights and be just as sucessful

After this interview I have decided that I like Eddie Hearn as a promoter and contributor to Boxing. I think he is the real deal.

the dude is running the show i thought al haymon, pbc etc was gonna take over a couple years back but man the dude is doing his thing lol respect what happened to richard shafer? thought he was making his comeback Schaefer was supposed to be the public face for PBC, arguably the unifying figure that is currently missing from the TV series. Eddie Hearn is basically the "Richard Schaefer" of Sky Sports; given the TV access, Hearn has done a stellar job in putting forward the type of events that capture the attention of his home market.