Comments Thread For: Hearn on Khan-Brook: Will I Sit Down and Watch It? Probably Not; Both Guys Are Finished

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Common theme with Hearn, when a guy's promoted by him it's a "brotherhood". These fighters are like his family.

Once they're not, it's the opposite.

Promoters are sleazy by nature but the way Hearn acts takes the cake.

Should he not be supporting Brook regardless? His "brother" who was one of his first fighters that helped build his stable?

Spot on mate. He chewed Brook up and spat him out. Fed him to Golovkin in a fight he should never have even been offered and consistently failed to deliver him meaningful fights at 147 before Spence became mandatory and took his belt.

[BodiesInFlight]

Spot on mate. He chewed Brook up and spat him out. Fed him to Golovkin in a fight he should never have even been offered and consistently failed to deliver him meaningful fights at 147 before Spence became mandatory and took his belt.

How was Brooks career pre Hearn?

[QballLobo]

Not sure I can enjoy this fight knowing Eddie Hearn may not be tuning in.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

How was Brooks career pre Hearn?

Very promising, he was British Champion, won the title outright and was #1 ranked in the WBO. Was also highly ranked with the other ABC’s. This was back in like 2009/10 too yet it took Matchroom 4+ years to finally get him a title shot, they then failed to deliver him any meaningful fights (Bizier, Jo Jo Dan and Gavin) before feeding him to GGG in a fight he had no business being involved in. I’m not even a Brook fan but he was terribly mismanaged by Matchroom.

[thack]

I won't buy this on principle and that is of Khan waiting until Brook is damaged and shot .Knowing he could never live with a solid prime gifted fighter like Kell and having to live with little paydays and a fighter 30 miles away who had his number.
I refuse to put a penny in Con's pocket ........period!

[IronDanHamza]

Very promising, he was British Champion, won the title outright and was #1 ranked in the WBO. Was also highly ranked with the other ABC’s. This was back in like 2009/10 too yet it took Matchroom 4+ years to finally get him a title shot, they then failed to deliver him any meaningful fights (Bizier, Jo Jo Dan and Gavin) before feeding him to GGG in a fight he had no business being involved in. I’m not even a Brook fan but he was terribly mismanaged by Matchroom.

How dare you?

He had a blockbuster fight with Leonard Bundu scheduled after his world title win until the leg incident.

hUUUUge ValuOOOOO in that fight.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

How dare you?

He had a blockbuster fight with Leonard Bundu scheduled after his world title win until the leg incident.

hUUUUge ValuOOOOO in that fight.

It was gonna on PPV too.

It was gonna be Brook vs Bundu and Bellew vs Clevery as a doubleheader.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Lol, Hearn will match Benn with the winner of this.

[P to the J]

Dunno. Maybe it's an essential characteristic of being a successful fight promoter, but Mr. Hearn is simply an incredibly disingenuous individual. I'd hoped that in the post King and Arum era we might see a new class of promoter that sees what he's selling as a product of great quality that stands up to scrutiny, sees his perfomers as rare and gifted people worth a great deal to the business, and sees his company as an integral part of a broader industry whose promotion as a whole supports the sucess of his business.
Instead, we get Hearn sabotaging everyone else's shows, Dana White adding wrestling to fighting and turning them into modern day ******, and both Don King and Bob Arum living to be ****ing 100!!!!!!!
What a fool I am.

Its a good post, but I think it might just be an essential characteristic of being a capitalist.

As the critiques of capitalism go, creating a good quality product perpetually, while paying everyone fairly and keeping prices within reach of consumers becomes an impossibility because competitors that cut corners on all of these to profiteer more greatly can reinvest in further ventures relative to the ‘ethical’ capitalist.

Bringing it back to boxing, and putting it in layman’s terms, nobody survives in this business without being a massive, greedy, duplicitous WANKER.

[davef]

Few years back Brook would have killed him stone dead by ko I mean khan in his prime was getting dropped by Julio Diaz a 135lb dragged up whose claim to fame is a draw with porter

Now 2 broken eye sockets later and getting dropped from a pretty incon****uous punch vs Crawford not to mention ballooning up between fights it seems closer. All Brook has to do is weather the first 4 rounds which will be all Khan due to his hand speed and combinations and get his timing and find a home for the right hook and it will be good night