One fighter that could have once been a member of the Matchroom Boxing roster is Tyson Fury<\/a>. However, \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 has largely fought under promoter Frank Warren<\/a>. <\/p>\n Fury fighting for Matchroom Boxing was seemingly not too far of a reality at one stage, however. Recent comments from Hearn<\/a> add clarity as to why he never signed the former heavyweight champion. <\/p>\n In a recent interview with IFL TV, Hearn shed some light on past possibilities between him and Fury. <\/p>\n Hearn said that he did once have the opportunity to sign Fury, but made a conscious decision not to do so. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen I had the chance to sign Tyson Fury, there were two things [that stopped me from signing him].\u201d<\/p>\n Hearn\u2019s first reason for not signing one of the greatest heavyweights of all time<\/a> was the condition of the fighter at the time. \u201cHe was physically in a place that I didn\u2019t think he\u2019d be able to get back to the top, and what he did was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n Following his win over Wladimir Klitschko<\/a>, \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 developed dietary and lifestyle habits that would hinder his condition. Fury at one stage weighed around 400 lbs<\/a> prior to facing Deontay Wilder<\/a>. <\/p>\n This is potentially the period of Fury\u2019s career in which Hearn is referring to.<\/p>\n Hearn then said that Joshua<\/a> was also an influential factor in terms of not signing Fury. \u201cThis [signing Fury] really isn\u2019t going to go down very well.\u201d<\/p>\n The promoter was asked \u2018with who?\u2019 in relation to the question, to which he replied, \u201cAJ would never say to me, \u2018don\u2019t sign him\u2019, but I just feel like, that\u2019s my guy, right?\u201d<\/p>\n Hearn added, \u201cI would feel very uncomfortable if I signed Tyson Fury and then we made that fight [with Joshua]\u2026 I hate representing both people in a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Eddie Hearn says he would sign Chris Eubank Jr. under particular circumstances <\/p>\n Joshua and Fury are not the only fighters with a rivalry which is preventing Hearn from making signings to his promotion. <\/p>\n In his conversations with IFL TV, Hearn said that if Chris Eubank Jr<\/a>. and Conor Benn were not fighting for a second time, he would consider signing the son of Chris Eubank Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIf the Conor Benn fight was off and he [Eubank Jr.] was fighting up at super middleweight, I would still say, \u2018Let\u2019s talk, honestly.’\u201d<\/p>\n However, Hearn feels this is an unlikely scenario given the pair\u2019s relationship. <\/p>\n The promoter alluded to an apology also being necessary for a deal to be done, \u201cIf he came to me and said, \u2018Listen, sorry for absolutely mugging you off, calling you a scumbag, not letting you speak, basically trying to belittle you at every opportunity,\u2019 [I would consider it].\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn is one of the most well known boxing promoters in the modern era of the sport,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,2560,6572,101,6901,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Anthony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2201312927-1024x682.jpg\")
Photo by Richard Pelham\/Getty ImagesAnthony Joshua part of the reason Eddie Hearn did not sign Tyson Fury <\/p>\n