Matchroom boss lets loose new boxing league.
Dana White’s recently-formed Zuffa Boxing has split the opinions of many. That’s something that was always bound to happen with a company that came into boxing talking about how it wants to fix all the problems that exist in the sport.
But still, Zuffa has managed to attract its share of critics, and they have been coming from increasingly higher places. One of these critics is Eddie Hearn, the chairman of Matchroom Boxing.
Last week, Hearn referred to the Zuffa Boxing belt as, “The cringiest sh*t I’ve ever seen.” Earlier this week, White spoke on Hearn’s statements by saying, “Eddie Hearn works for his dad, you know what I mean? He works for dad, and you know, I don’t think he’s come in and ever had any type of vision, whereas we do, and we’re gonna change the entire sport.”
In an interview with “The Stomping Ground” earlier today, Hearn unleashed on White’s words and said, “I mean, right now, when you talk about Zuffa’s–or whatever it’s called–when you talk about their vision, what’s their vision? What, gettin’ Max Kellerman to tell everyone that Callum Walsh is the next Roy Jones, or puttin’ Charles Martin on a headline show on a Sunday night, in front of 126 people, in your garage, in a ring that looks like you’ve just got it out of a local club show? I mean, what sort of f***in’ vision’s that? Or better still: ‘Oh, no. Here’s a belt, and it’s Zuffa. Look at the vision.'”
Hearn continued, “That’s not vision. That’s control. Because the reality is, when he says we can’t compete, they can’t compete in this cutthroat world of boxin’, ’cause it’s a horrible world, and they don’t wanna compete. They wanna create their own world.”
Hearn made his feelings abundantly clear by then stating, “But listen; at the moment, when you compare Matchroom shows to Zuffa shows, quite frankly, Zuffa shows are absolute, complete dogsh*t.”
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