Conor Benn’s controversial departure from Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing had opinion break up. Now fan-favourite, Nigel Benn has shared his ideas on his son’s transfer.
Hearn stood by and defended Benn after he failed two doping exams when initially scheduled to face Chris Eubank Jr again in 2022. The promoter eased ‘The Destroyer’ again into the professional sport as investigations had been ongoing earlier than two fights with Chris Eubank Jr final yr noticed him develop into a family identify.
However, again in February, Dana White’s Zuffa Boxing made the shock announcement that Benn had develop into their marquee signing, leaving Hearn, who had promoted him for the whole thing of his skilled profession up till that time, with out considered one of his greatest names within the UK. The British promoter has since taken concern with the way it was dealt with, claiming Benn didn’t converse to him personally in regards to the resolution.
On the opposite hand, Benn has stated that he was introduced with a deal he couldn’t flip down, and selected the advantage of his household over anything throughout what is usually a very quick and unpredictable profession. Many fighters have sided with him on this view.
Speaking with Boxing King Media, beloved two-division world champion and father of Conor, Nigel Benn, claimed that it’s Hearn who has now ‘burnt the bridges’ and presumably scuppered any probability of a return to Matchroom, by calling his son ‘a dog’.
“He [Hearn] can call Conor a dog, who he really cares? He is a dog because your golden ticket has left you and [all] you have got [left is] Anthony Joshua? Good luck to you.
“We are not going to sit here worrying about you. We are going to watch Conor build up his bank balance and enjoy his life. We’re not going to be thinking about Eddie, if he wants to call Conor a dog, then so be it, but I’m not going to go there.
“I did like Eddie, and I still do like Eddie. I’m not going to go through that childish thing of ‘he is a dog, he left me and never phoned me’. F**k, it happens. Stop pretending that nothing like that has ever happened to you, Eddie.
“How many fighters have you dropped away on the sidelines? But I’m not going to go down that road. I don’t need to. Conor has just moved on, he [Hearn] is actually the one that has burnt the bridges. Will Conor come back now? Who knows.”
Benn’s one-fight Zuffa Boxing deal lands on the Tyson Fury-Arslanbek Makhmudov card this weekend at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, going through off with two-time super-lightweight world champion Regis Prograis in a 150lb catchweight contest.
