{"id":522585,"date":"2026-03-06T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522585\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:46:11","slug":"turki-alalshikh-aims-brutal-insult-at-eddie-hearn-in-conor-benn-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522585\/","title":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh aims brutal insult at Eddie Hearn in Conor Benn message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turki Alalshikh has aimed a fresh dig at Eddie Hearn as he referenced Zuffa Boxing’s stunning signing of Conor Benn. <\/p>\n

Dana White<\/a>‘s Zuffa Boxing lured Benn<\/a> away from Hearn<\/a> and Matchroom after tabling a lucrative one-fight offer.<\/p>\n

Benn parted ways with Hearn to link up with White and will make his first promotional debut on the undercard of Tyson Fury’s comeback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Much has been made of Benn’s contract, with TKO – the parent company of both the UFC<\/a> and Zuffa Boxing – chief Mark Shapiro confirming Alalshikh will cover the star boxer’s staggering purse, which is worth eight figures.<\/p>\n

According to Hearn, the way the offer was presented, Matchroom were unable to match Zuffa Boxing’s deal.<\/p>\n

He also revealed that Benn turned down a phone call<\/a> with him ahead of penning a deal with the Saudi-backed boxing promotion.<\/p>\n

\"TurkiTurki Alalshikh with Eddie Hearn and Anthony Joshua at The Ring Magazine awards in January 2025. Image: Getty <\/p>\n

After Hearn announced the signing of Tom Aspinall to his new agency<\/a>, Alalshikh poked fun at the Matchroom promoter by bringing up Benn in a ruthless dig.<\/p>\n

On X, Alalshikh shared a picture of himself sat between Hearn and Oleksandr Usyk, accompanied with the caption: “Eddie, don\u2019t worry, I am always here for you. And if you call me, unlike Conor Benn, I will answer the phone.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Ring, the Saudi sports supremo added: “Eddie [Hearn], come and put your head on the chest of your father, I will give you a warm hug. The world is filled with evil people.”<\/p>\n

They often share banter, but there appears to be more to Alalshikh’s latest post and comments given the recent Benn and Aspinall’s deals.<\/p>\n

Alalshikh, who is the financial backer of Zuffa Boxing alongside Sela, is, naturally, siding with White.<\/p>\n

His dig at Hearn comes after the Matchroom chief poked fun at White, claiming his ‘new daddy’ is Alalshikh.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I do work for my dad, but guess what? Dana White has worked for his daddy for a long time,” the 46-year-old said when asked about White’s comments about him working for his dad, Barry Hearn.<\/p>\n

“The Fertitta brothers, that\u2019s who he worked for. And right now Dana White\u2019s got a new daddy and his name is Turki Alalshikh.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turki Alalshikh has aimed a fresh dig at Eddie Hearn as he referenced Zuffa Boxing’s stunning signing of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,30027,958,9915,85],"class_list":["post-522585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-conor-benn","tag-dana-white","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522585","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=522585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}