{"id":523059,"date":"2026-03-08T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:00:10","slug":"hearn-nearly-fell-off-the-f-king-chair-learning-about-aspinalls-ufc-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523059\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearn \u2018nearly fell off the f–king chair\u2019 learning about Aspinall\u2019s UFC pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall is back in the news, and this time it\u2019s not some dreary story about how bad his injured eyes are. Following an announcement that he\u2019d hired Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Eddie Hearn<\/a> as his new manager, Hearn went ahead and held a big press conference in London to push his client and remind everyone what it looks like when a fighter is actually being promoted.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnbelievable turnout,\u201d Hearn said in a video posted to Aspinall\u2019s YouTube channel. \u201cIf you look down there, Tom Aspinall is swamped with media like some kind of global superstar we all know that he is. And in 24 hours, his profile is bigger than it\u2019s ever been before. So get ready for the big return for one of the biggest stars in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearn has used his promotional swagger in the past to rehab the reputations of Anthony Joshua of Conor Benn, both of whom are making eight-figure paydays now. Benn famously left Hearn<\/a> to sign with UFC\u2019s boxing sister promotion Zuffa, allegedly for a $15 million one-fight deal. Now we\u2019re wondering if Hearn plans to try and extract a similar figure out of UFC for his new client Tom Aspinall.<\/p>\n

Eddie certainly implied there\u2019d be changes to how much Aspinall makes if UFC wants to keep him following the last two fights on his current contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I talked through Tom Aspinall\u2019s purses, I nearly fell off the f–king chair,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cDo you know what I mean? Because I know if that was our business, he\u2019d be making 10 times as much money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis return is gonna be massive when it comes. And as an organization, they need him. Forget he needs the UFC. He actually don\u2019t need the UFC now, but they need him because they need heavyweight stars. [They need] stars full stop. And he\u2019s a young man that goes in there and f–king entertains.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.K. media showed up in a big way for the presser, with major outlets for the top news organizations out in force.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, it sends us into a frenzy because we\u2019re trying to figure out what\u2019s gonna happen next,\u201d Daily Mail\u2019s Charlotte Daly said. \u201cThe rumors are all whether Tom was moving to boxing, and that was the conversation. He\u2019s obviously said today that is not the case, potentially at the end of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yeah, there\u2019s so many eyeballs on this, a lot of interest in what this means going forward, what it means for UFC. Is it gonna increase the purses there? So I think only good things can come from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty optimistic, and we assume the Daily Mail hasn\u2019t carefully followed the stories of other major UFC fighters<\/a> who believe they deserved<\/a> more than what the established promotional payscale offers. This time, though, the fighter in question has Eddie Hearn in his corner, and Eddie won\u2019t allow the press to ignore the situation if negotiations don\u2019t move forward as they should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall is back in the news, and this time it\u2019s not some dreary story…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-523059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}