{"id":518213,"date":"2026-03-04T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:47:13","slug":"anthony-joshua-picks-side-after-conor-benn-splits-with-eddie-hearn-in-bizarre-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518213\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua picks side after Conor Benn splits with Eddie Hearn in bizarre post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua has aimed a bizarre post at Conor Benn after he left Eddie Hearn for Dana White. <\/p>\n

Benn<\/a> sent shockwaves through the boxing world when he parted ways with Hearn<\/a> and Matchroom for White<\/a> and Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

He had been with Hearn from his professional debut, with the British promoter securing him back-to-back clashes against Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Benn, who was a free agent, opted to leave Hearn to join forces with UFC<\/a> boss White, who is fronting TKO’s boxing promotion.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old has signed a one-fight deal, worth a staggering eight figures and he’ll make his promotional debut on the undercard<\/a> of Tyson Fury’s comeback on April 11 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n

The nature of the split was a shock given his relationship with Hearn, who has a similar bond with Joshua.<\/p>\n

And Joshua has shared his first thoughts on Benn leaving the Matchroom chief with a bizarre dig.<\/p>\n

On his Instagram story, he shared an image of himself with Hearn, accompanied with the caption: “AJ: Did you bring the fire power Eddie?<\/p>\n

“Eddie: It’s tucked on my waste line mush.<\/p>\n

“AJ: I’ll let you know when I have a clear sight of Connor [sic] Benn.”<\/p>\n

\"AnthonyAnthony Joshua sided with Eddie Hearn after Conor Benn left Matchroom. Image: Instagram\/Anthony Joshua <\/p>\n

It appears to be in jest given their own friendship, but Joshua has clearly backed Hearn in his feud with the star boxer.<\/p>\n

Eddie Hearn: ‘Conor Benn went behind my back’ <\/p>\n

Hearn has delivered several interviews since Benn’s high-profile departure from the Matchroom stable.<\/p>\n

\"AnthonyAnthony Joshua has sided with Eddie Hearn in his feud with Conor Benn. Image: Getty <\/p>\n

In his latest interview with iFL TV<\/a>, Hearn called out Benn’s lawyer and claimed the fighter went behind his back to sign a deal with Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

“The way that it was done was probably the worst thing,” he said.<\/p>\n

“To receive an email in the tone that it was it was written was almost like we hadn\u2019t worked together. And this is from Lee, his lawyer, who I reserve judgement on but still a dog unfortunately because you have to have the balls to say something, but I\u2019d like to give him the benefit of the doubt that he knew this was appalling.”<\/p>\n

Hearn added: “You\u2019re reading it and you\u2019re like ‘do we even know you?’ It\u2019s the way this has all been premeditated.<\/p>\n

“This offer didn’t just land on Conor Benn\u2019s lap. They went out looking for it behind my back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua has aimed a bizarre post at Conor Benn after he left Eddie Hearn for Dana White.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8075,64,63,802,30027,85],"class_list":["post-518213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-conor-benn","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}