Joshua has a contract<\/a> that demands UFC and Zuffa Boxing parent company TKO isn\u2019t involved in the fight. The contract also states the fight must happen in the United Kingdom. In a recent interview with About Boxing, Hearn said that contract is being breached.<\/p>\n\u201cObviously they want to change the contract that we signed, which we don\u2019t like to do,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cRight now there is no agreement to change anything in that contract. And right now from our side, no announcement is imminent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI should be suing Dana White,\u201d Hearn declared later. \u201cBecause what he\u2019s doing is, he\u2019s actually purporting to have the ability to stage the fight [in the U.S], and he\u2019s using my client to do a venue deal that he has no rights to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is, now, TKO are coming on, asking me if they can be involved,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo Dana White\u2019s gone from being the promoter of the event to asking if he can be involved. And rather than saying \u2018F–k off,\u2019 I\u2019m saying, \u2018Why? Why should I let you be involved in this event? Break it down for me. Tell me how it benefits Anthony Joshua. Tell me how it benefits Matchroom. Tell me how it benefits my fighters.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
UFC CEO Dana White responded with a mix of annoyance and sly mischief when asked about the situation. It\u2019s worth noting, though, he stopped himself from making more statements that could end up in lawsuit documents from Hearn.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to play these f–king games with these f–king guys,\u201d White said at Tuesday night\u2019s Contender Series post-fight press conference.White added he hadn\u2019t heard Hearn\u2019s threat to sue. \u201cI have not. I stopped listening to Eddie Hearn about three months ago. Is there anybody more full of s–t than this guy? Come on. Completely full of s–t.\u201d<\/p>\n
As this battle goes on, it\u2019s looking more and more likely that this goes to court. And if it does, it seems likely that the Fury vs. Joshua fight ends up scuttled once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fight between Dana Whtie and Eddie Hearn over who is promoting Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,43957,85,114155],"class_list":["post-860786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860786","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=860786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}