Comments Thread For: Hearn Reveals Big Plans For U.S. Market, Being a Force on HBO

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Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport is the top boxing promoter in the UK. On Saturday night, he officially began his anticipated expansion to the American market. Back in the UK, Hearn promotes numerous top fighters, current world champions and signed the majority of the top UK Olympians from the 2012 and 2016 classes.
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[NahMean]

Reports are he's signing Miller.. He should also sign Spence, Thurman and Wilder.. All belt holders but Al Haymon has them on the shelf.. How can guys as talented as them be left on the shelf fighting once a year.. Twice if lucky??. Hearn said he's only gona sign a handful so that he can actually get them fights 3 or 4 times a year.

Smart move.. If he signs too many fighters he's gonna have the issue Al Haymon has, he won't have enough dates to have them all fight.

[Straightener]

F**k me they can sellout darts events in the uk

We just love a sesh

[Rudiamonds]

As a New Yorker he already selling me on going to one of his shows and getting drunk

[ShoulderRoll]

If this works out then kicking Bob Arum to the curb might be the best thing HBO ever did.

I wonder what this does for the Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder fight down the road, though?

Hearn wanting to be exclusive content provider for HBO likely means that AJ won't sign a long term deal with Showtime now.

[bronx7]

He was referring to haymon who signed hundred but has no forum to give them all public shows or fight every year haymon while meaning well cares for fighters he's model failed

[Kenny Blankenship]

So Hearn's big foray into the US market on HBO is to put Danny Jacobs in with Luis Arias, a guy NOBODY has heard of. And he is putting it on Long Island LOL. Jacobs is from Brooklyn and can't sell tickets there or anywhere else unless he's in there with someone named Golovkin. Jacobs and his defenders keep insisting he beat Golovkin, yet he's taking a "get well" fight that clearly indicates he lost and needs to build himself up again.

Hearn will be lucky if this fight does 5,000 paying customers and that's being generous.

If you're looking to make a splash on HBO putting Jacobs in against a nobody isn't exactly going to ingratiate yourself to the US audience.

I'm all for somebody new making an attempt and getting into another market, but unless you are willing to make fights we want to see it really means nothing. This card looks like your typical PBC trash. Mismatches all over the place. Big Baby Miller will be fighting somebody and it'll most likely be a no-hoper.

Somebody needs to tell Hearn these types of cards were a regular thing when it came to PBC and look where it got them...in bankruptcy.

[Roronoazoro]

Deontay wilder will retire at 50-0 49ko

[Jambo1n0]

If Jacobs moves up would make more sense...some great Brit fights at Super-Mid...

[NEETzsche]

So Hearn's big foray into the US market on HBO is to put Danny Jacobs in with Luis Arias, a guy NOBODY has heard of. And he is putting it on Long Island LOL. Jacobs is from Brooklyn and can't sell tickets there or anywhere else unless he's in there with someone named Golovkin. Jacobs and his defenders keep insisting he beat Golovkin, yet he's taking a "get well" fight that clearly indicates he lost and needs to build himself up again.

Hearn will be lucky if this fight does 5,000 paying customers and that's being generous.

If you're looking to make a splash on HBO putting Jacobs in against a nobody isn't exactly going to ingratiate yourself to the US audience.

I'm all for somebody new making an attempt and getting into another market, but unless you are willing to make fights we want to see it really means nothing. This card looks like your typical PBC trash. Mismatches all over the place. Big Baby Miller will be fighting somebody and it'll most likely be a no-hoper.

Somebody needs to tell Hearn these types of cards were a regular thing when it came to PBC and look where it got them...in bankruptcy.

Arias is a talented boxer. This might be coming too soon for him but he's certainly not a stiff. And the rumour is that Miller will be facing Kownacki, so that would make it a solid double-header. Hearn just needs to keep his fighters active and make his cards have at least two meaningful fights topping the bill and he's already ahead of most of the competition. Another thing that would be really nice would be if he could reduce the big gaps between fights that seem typical on US shows. For example that Top Rank ESPN card on Friday had good some boxing on it but the interminable waits between each fight really dampened the whole experience