{"id":521198,"date":"2026-03-05T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521198\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:40:07","slug":"ufc-heavyweight-champion-tom-aspinall-signs-with-eddie-hearn-time-to-get-whats-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521198\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall signs with Eddie Hearn: \u2018Time to get what\u2019s yours\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has new representation and it\u2019s none other than Eddie Hearn.<\/p>\n

The stunning news was announced on Thursday after Aspinall teased he was getting \u201cback to business\u201d <\/a>as he boarded a flight. It turns out, he was traveling to Monaco to ink a deal with Hearn to serve as his agent, which seemingly escalates the ongoing war the Matchroom Boxing chairman has engaged with UFC CEO Dana White after he launched Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to the team UFC heavyweight champ Tom Aspinall,\u201d Hearn wrote on Instagram. \u201cTime to get what\u2019s yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following news of the signing, Aspinall released a video explaining his decision to team up with Hearn and his new talent agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have signed with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom on a commercial advisory deal,\u201d Aspinall said. \u201cWe\u2019ve done most of my career with the really small team that I\u2019ve got but I wanted to add to my value. Eddie\u2019s someone that I\u2019ve known for a fair bit, I trust Eddie and I want to make as much money and grow commercially as much as possible while I\u2019m fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, we\u2019re still recovering but I\u2019m looking to get back in there as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The signing comes after Zuffa Boxing inked a lucrative one-fight deal with Conor Benn, who had been promoted by Hearn for almost his entire career. The deal was reportedly worth $15 million and Hearn later admitted that he was hurt and felt \u201cmassively betrayed\u201d by the signing, especially after he found out via email from Benn\u2019s attorney.<\/p>\n

That led to a war of words with White through various interviews with the UFC CEO saying recently \u201cis there a bigger p*ssy than Eddie Hearn?\u201d after seeing his emotional response to losing Benn to Zuffa Boxing.<\/p>\n

Hearn then fired back and said he had no regrets about saying he was upset by the whole ordeal and added that White and his team at Zuffa Boxing don\u2019t \u201cgive a f*ck about the fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth continued with White actually saying he had no personal issues with Hearn<\/a> and originally had no plans to go after him or Matchroom but then Hearn effectively issued a challenge, which led to Zuffa Boxing responding.<\/p>\n

Now Hearn had fired his own salvo by signing Aspinall and representing him as an agent, which should make future negotiations with the UFC very interesting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to know Tom and I got to know Andy [Aspinall] and I was pretty shocked by the potential that was out there in terms of where he\u2019s at and how he feels,\u201d Hearn said about working with Aspinall. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about the UFC world heavyweight champion. You\u2019re talking about one of the biggest stars in British sport. You\u2019re talking about one of the biggest stars globally. In a boxing sense, you are the baddest man on the planet and that\u2019s what he is. He\u2019s a good guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I met a man that was just a little bit broken, if I\u2019m honest with you. One of the things he said to me \u2018you sure you want to represent me? I\u2019m a bit of a broken record at the moment.\u2019 I said what are you talking about? You\u2019re the UFC world heavyweight champion. You\u2019re one of the most fierce fighters on the planet and I see you as a massive star. Get your chin up. Get your mojo up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aspinall hasn\u2019t fought since this past October when his first title defense as undisputed heavyweight champion ended after he suffered a brutal eye poke in the opening round in his bout against Ciryl Gane. In the aftermath of that injury, Aspinall had double eye surgery and still hasn\u2019t been cleared to return to action yet.<\/p>\n

Obviously now Aspinall has Hearn in his corner when it comes time to negotiate his next fight with the UFC whenever that happens. Hearn did make it clear that Aspinall is working towards his UFC return and this new deal isn\u2019t a back door to bring him to boxing \u2026 at least not yet anyways.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has a contract with the UFC,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about bringing him into boxing. This is a commercial representation and advisory capacity to help him across all of his business. I\u2019m sure and everything I hear, he can go in there and do serious damage in the boxing world but it\u2019s not on the short term agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has new representation and it\u2019s none other than Eddie Hearn. The stunning news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1347,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-521198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521198","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=521198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}