Comments Thread For: Ruiz-Joshua Winner Could Very Well Vacate a Title, Says Hearn

[Akutalee]

This is pure business for hearn Usyk vs Chisora will sell well if there is a title at stake

[tophat1]

Chisora shouldnt be even mentioned, he beat a journeyman and 2 shot fighters since he got put to sleep by whyte.

Easy solution is ruiz aj winner faces pulev next then usyk.

[Fire4231]

Anyone can see Hearn and Matchroom set this up to keep them in the heavyweight picture should Joshua lose.
Lol...Looks like they really have a lot of confidence in Anthony Joshua’s come back?

If Ruiz wins he would now have to fight Usyk on the back end of the second Joshua fight to keep the WBO belt. Easily orchestrated because the WBO appears to be all the way in Hearns pocket.

Well bring it, Andy should destroy Usyk too. Who believes Usyk can beat any top Heavyweight right now? That’s why Hearn is planting the seed that the winner should vacate.

Andy should keep burning through Hearn fighters till he has nothing viable at heavy weight.

That decision to fight Ruiz was the worst thing ever for “Matchbook,” (house on fire).

It is like Haymon opened up that side tunnel in the video game Super-breakout. And the wrecking ball is stuck at the top destroying Matchrooms financial potential from the top down.

Hearns arrogance always makes the destruction that much worse. When he should just abort the freakin mission, he keeps doubling down on lower probability/ more desperate strategies.

He would do better getting Usyk a WBO franchise belt. Ruiz destroys him.

[Nomadic]

Hearns already trying to build himself another heavyweight champ in case AJ loses his next fight.

[CJFRENCH]

Correct, its that simple..

What Eddie Hearn is saying is if Joshua wins he'll have Joshua vacate one of the belts.

Hearn wants to keep the titles in house. AJ wants some easier fights, and will probably fight Pulev but not Usyk. Usyk will get to fight another Hearn Heavyweight for the WBO.

This will build up Usyk for a future fight with AJ. AJ can still fight Wilder and Fury later on but not with all the belts on the line.
If he wins he can then go back to Usyk to unify all the belts. If he loses Hearn still has the BO belt to control and create another big HW fight.

AJ was complaining before his loss he wanted an easy fight after seeing Fury fight those unknown Euro Heavies.

Hearn is just covering all bases and putting his eggs in more than one basket, but both fighters AJ and Usyk do not lose out but have more options with less pressure on AJ. As stated he can come back for all the belts if he keeps winning. He knows he can fight Usyk anytime for the WBO. Wilder will have to fight two Hearn stable Heavies to get his hands on all the belts, as will Fury after Wilder.

If Ruiz wins again we will see Politic's at play and he will either have to fight the two mandatory's or go for the big payday with Wilder. Pressure will be put on him to meet the mandatory's first or lose a belt..

[R.I.P Chico]

Hearn should concentrate on his own fighter. If Ruiz beats Joshua again in December and Wilder beats Ortiz & then fury in February, there will be nothing stopping Ruiz fight Wilder for all the belts in the summer. This makes Hearn sick. Al Haymon has played a blinder if the pieces fall that way.

[4truth]

Is no one at the helm of the good ship Boxing?

[P4Pdunny]

If AJ wins he’ll give up a belt this sounds like

[tokon]

Eddie Hearn is lying. He knows very well that if you have two mandatories due at the same time, it's up to the sanctioning bodies to decide who goes first. The fighter can't be stripped for not being able to fight both at the same time.

Yes, I think Hearns is well aware that the two sanctioning bodies will agree on whose mandatory goes first and the champ will get an exemption on the condition the other guy is next. Just like Golovkin got to rematch Canelo (then got stripped for refusing to honour the agreement!).
More bullcr*p from Fast Eddy imo.

[Cortez]

Eddie Hearn is lying. He knows very well that if you have two mandatories due at the same time, it's up to the sanctioning bodies to decide who goes first. The fighter can't be stripped for not being able to fight both at the same time.

No both mandatories are overdue so a title will go away.
There was plenty of time for the mandatories but both boxers entered a rematch contract that has nothing to do with the sanctioning bodies.

If Joshua had won he would be fighting a mandatory right now.