Frank Warren vs Eddie Hearn

[Box Up!]

Fascinating article by the brilliant Mihir Bose in last night’s Evening Standard. For the Londoners on here, i suspect you’ve already read it. Indeed, perhaps it’s also been posted on here?

Anyway, if not, have a butchers, is very, very good;

http://www.mihirbose.com/index.php/eddie-hearn-v-frank-warren-the-fight-for-survival/

[Weebler I]

It seems like a lot of the quotes from that article are from a youtube video I watched a week or two ago.

I think this is it:

[Bodyshot3]

Bose is a good, serious writer when it comes to sporting politics - a bit of a niche subject admittedly - and he has broken some big stories in his time.

His usual 'beat' is soccer, cricket, the Olympics and sports with serious corruption or drug problems like athletics and cycling.

So it is kind of interesting that a big, national Brit newspaper journo has picked-up on the Hearn-Warren war for supremacy and decided to comment on it. The article is a wee bit lazy because the big exodus from Warren is pretty much done-and-dusted and Bose is reviewing the fall-out.

But I still think the overall thrust of the Bose piece is interesting. Warren, the undisputed kingpin of British boxing for so many years having overthrown an established old-guard himself, is now in serious danger of being marginalised by a younger, more energetic and better financed rival.

I respect Warren because he's given us some cracking fights and fighters..

.....but he looks vulnerable right now with possibly his weakest stable of fighters in twenty years and that big, brave commitment to the BoxNation still worries me.

Does BoxNation really pay the bills or is Frank sitting on a colossal financial outlay that prevents him from winning purse bids and building-up stars (and paying them well as they grow) like he used to do?

Bose is asking the smae question...but just a bit more eloquently than I can!!

[Scary]

I like the Hearn take on this, trying to connect to a younger audience as Warren still clinches to his old methods. Basicly I think it's healthy that their fighting eachother, I hope this feud gives the fighters better rights.

And Hearns seem like a genuinely nice guy. I know that's his job, but still, he seems like a guy who keeps it real.

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

Bose generally passes off other people's stories as his own, adding phrases like "my sources inform me" or "BBC Sport understands".