Eddie Hearn has stepped up his war of words with Ben Shalom by claiming that Boxxer fighters are personally phoning him in a bid to jump ship.<\/p>\n
The Matchroom boss and Shalom have been going back and forth for months now but things intensified over the weekend when Boxxer\u2019s first show on the BBC<\/a> clashed with Matchroom\u2019s event in Birmingham<\/a>. Now Hearn, 46, has fired back at Shalom and suggested that Boxxer fighters continue to contact him personally about moving to Matchroom.<\/p>\n On Saturday night, Ben Whittaker boxed for the first time under the Matchroom banner after spending his first 10 professional fights with Boxxer and Hearn says more could follow.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m never one to say that I\u2019m not going to give him any oxygen by responding,\u201d Hearn told The Ring on Wednesday. \u201cI will always clap back and have my say.<\/p>\n \u201cI get his strategy because I would do the exact same thing, I really would because nothing that ever comes out of his mouth is going to be exciting or entertaining unless it\u2019s having a go at me. I don\u2019t blame him.<\/p>\n \u201cBut in the meantime, fighters that work with him continue to phone me and say \u2018is there any way I can join Matchroom?\u2019 So he should just focus on pushing his own fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n In contrast to Shalom, Hearn has never had a broadcast deal on terrestrial television but the Matchroom boss does think his opposite number is in danger of \u2018haemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of pounds on every show\u2019 of his new BBC deal.<\/p>\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t a rights deal with real money,\u201d said Hearn of Boxxer on the BBC. \u201cBut it\u2019s still a good platform.<\/p>\n “The difficulty will be that you’re going to be haemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of pounds on every show. So, it’s how many investors you can keep coming to fund the company? That’s the challenge.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you’re just losing money week after week, show after show, that money will dry up. So, I don’t believe they’re going to do a show a month like they have claimed. The biggest problem they’ve got is virtually every fighter of note that they represent wants to leave. <\/p>\n \u201cThat means they have to get them out in big fights and they’re expensive. It doesn’t take a genius to know that the purses that those fighters are on versus the revenue that’s generated on a BBC show, it just doesn’t work. <\/p>\n \u201cYou’ve got to be a little bit cutthroat. Sometimes you have to let fighters go that are just too expensive for your capabilities or the money you have. <\/p>\n \u201cIf you’re just in it for ego you’re just going to keep losing money and then it’s all going to be over quicker than you know it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn has stepped up his war of words with Ben Shalom by claiming that Boxxer fighters are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-301517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301517","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=301517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Shalom claimed Hearn is \u2018insecure\u2019 in his position and labelled him a \u201850-year-old who works for his dad\u2019, in reference to Barry Hearn, the 77-year-old founder of Matchroom. During an interview with The Ring<\/a>, Shalom also said Hearn was not fit to ‘lace his boots\u2019.<\/p>\n