Comments Thread For: Hearn: Parker-Chisora Winner Could Fight Whoever Wins Usyk-Joyce For WBO Title

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I'm no fan of Hearn, Or any promoter for that matter, but what exactly could anyone have done differently? Which secret fighters are out there that he's avoiding for his fighters?

You can only make fights with the people available to you. PBC heavyweights are MIA, except for Ruiz who's fighting shortly. What would you suggest to make it less of a joke?

I see lots of people moaning here, but nobody is able to offer any alternatives.

Parker vs Chisora is definitely not a PPV fight whichever way you look at it, but there are punters out there willing to pay, so Hearn obliges.

People think promoters have some secret deals with the ABCs, but the reality is the sanctioning bodies do whatever makes them the most money.

I’m not criticising his business enterprise, he’s clearly been successful in the UK at least, but it’s clear he’s happy to disparage the sport in the process. The way he’s manipulated the casual market is clever but it’s not been good for British boxing and the decline in standard of PPV cards and even regular Sky cards corroborate that. If you look at Sky boxing now, they rarely ever show male world title fights on non PPV, they rarely show any international fights now cause the casuals have no interest and even the more enticing domestic matchups generally end up on PPV undercards. It’s seems anything worth watching is now behind a paywall.

It’s the business model which is a huge issue. They’re extracting money from the sport without putting it back in. Sky used to be showing Carl Froch in world title fights as part of the subscription, now anything half decent is just slung on PPV and the money generated is not being used to improve the product- which completely contradicts what Hearn promised years back. “We want every fight night to feature a world title fight”. There’s been 3 in 4 years.

HBO is universally regarded as the boom period in boxing and it’s because they actually invested back into the sport. When they made crazy money on Mayweather-Pacquiao, the next week that gave us Canelo Alvarez as part of the subscription. That’s reinvesting back into the sport something Hearn/Sky never do.

It’s also all the lies and the bullsh**, Sky Sports boxing is now a narrative driven propaganda machine. Honest boxing men like Watt, McCrory etc have all been pushed out and have been replaced with ex-Matchroom stooges like Bellew and Macklin or network stooges like Adam Smith and Johnny Nelson. As a longtime British boxing fan I’m genuinely embarrassed of the product we offer at the moment.

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How in gods name does Chisora keep getting these fights?

Hes a pretty big name in the UK, usually entertaining and a solid gatekeeper.


Definitely shouldnt be talking about him getting anywhere near a world title at this point though.

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[QUOTE=Why is that same victim HW not mentioned as next for Usyk? Same friggin promoter! But ok. Sure. Eddie is on the level [/QUOTE]

Because it’s all about rankings and sanctioning bodies, assume you are referring to Whyte? He is going the WBC.