Comments Thread For: Eddie Hearn on Ali Revival Act: The decision?s already made

[BoxingUpdates]

Promoter Eddie Hearn has been speaking about this week?s senate hearing about the Ali Act overhaul in Washington this week.?
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[Pulmonary Embolii]

A lot of what Eddie Hearn says make sense, not that I trust any promoter to give us the honest truth. I know others have said "let's give Zuffa time", including Mr Stephen Edwards (Breadman is a generous soul), but I find them mysterious at best. Why choose Conor Benn to give 15 million squid for one fight? And why, after his luke warm performance against Regis Prograis (who retired the same night), give Benn a long term contract? If this is all about dishing out big money out upfront, who is going to get squeezed later on to balance up the books? Every new fighter? Duffer boxing is very suspect, even in our experience.

[Butt stuff]

A lot of what Eddie Hearn says make sense, not that I trust any promoter to give us the honest truth. I know others have said "let's give Zuffa time", including Mr Stephen Edwards (Breadman is a generous soul), but I find them mysterious at best. Why choose Conor Benn to give 15 million squid for one fight? And why, after his luke warm performance against Regis Prograis (who retired the same night), give Benn a long term contract? If this is all about dishing out big money out upfront, who is going to get squeezed later on to balance up the books? Every new fighter? Duffer boxing is very suspect, even in our experience.

They’re consolidating power. Their current model of throwing insane purses at fighters isn’t sustainable long term. But once they’ve poached enough of the top guys, the smaller guys follow too. Then they build a monopoly and starve the other promoters and Orgs out.

I think they’re planning to hold all the cards, then they’ll pay the fighters what ever they want when there’s no competition left - just like they do in the UFC with their domination over MMA. They’ll say “you want to be big in boxing? You’ll have to sign with Zuffa.”

Even paying the very average Benn $15m was great PR for them. Fighters everywhere are going to be thinking “oh I don’t even have to be that good to get paid crazy money, let’s try and sign with Zuffa, they’re overpaying and making fighters rich”.

Though I’m hoping all the old guard can work something out to limit Zuffa’s control over boxing.

[Benedict]

Hearn is right, at some point it’s better to just avoid doing business with Zuffa.

[Moz_boxing]

Last chance for all the promoters and sanctioning bodies to get their ish together. If Zuffa takes over the sport is done and they will squezze all life that is left out of it before throwing it to the Can and in the meanwhile all fighters will suffer and complain.

Sanctioning bodies need unified/aligned rankings. They should align on 10 out of the top 15 fighters and they should include a system with 1 voluntary fight ,1 mandatory fight and then 1 unification fight. These 3 fights need to happen in 15-16 month if a fighter is not able to commit to the timeline the voluntary fight gets scratched first.

Also they should force every fighter ranked top 10 to enroll in a feature where he must face a fighter ranked in the top 10. Its not right that people like Ben Whitaker and others never fought any top 10 fighter but still sitting high in the rankings and still not planning to fight anyone.

Fix the rankings and priotise Unifications, order fights between ranked guys to find the deserving guys and everything else will play out from alone especially with all promoters working together now.

[ShoulderRoll]

I can’t believe they are no longer going to be required to show the fighters how much money is in play. That is utterly ridiculous.

More boxing people should have spoken up about that. Credit to Oscar De La Hoya for doing so, none of the other big shots showed up to fight this. Also credit to Nico Ali Walsh.

[Moz_boxing]

I can’t believe they are no longer going to be required to show the fighters how much money is in play. That is utterly ridiculous.

More boxing people should have spoken up about that. Credit to Oscar De La Hoya for doing so, none of the other big shots showed up to fight this. Also credit to Nico Ali Walsh.

Yeah credit to everyone that fights that sh*#t. That being said Oscar and all other promoters speaking out against it are just doing so because they know Zuffa might put them out of business, if they could do the same sh#*t they would all jump on the opportunity and build a UFC type of pay modell robbing all the fighters left and right.

I wouldn't be sad seeing all the promoters and even sanctioning bodies losing their job but i know if Zuffa wins the fighters will suffer and the sport will be destroyed within 1 decade from the time they monopolize Boxing.

[Grandma Lover]

Yeah Hearn is right. Dana was at the Whitehouse dinner with that bs shooting it's gonna pass