Eddie Hearn defends holding Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk 2 in Saudi Arabia despite ongoing backlash
alongside Dereck Chisora, who was announced to face former AJ opponent Kubrat Pulev at the O2 on July 9, and he was asked for details on Joshua and Usyk 2.
“I’m glad Dereck Chisora is here because we get this question and we get it a lot – boxing, quite frankly, is not golf,” Hearn said. “I have a responsibility to make sure these fighters come out of this sport with enough financial security to secure the next generation.“Dereck’s a good man to ask. If I went to him and said, ‘we’ve had two offers come in, one is for London or one if for X-times more to take part in the Middle East’, and by the way, we’ve put on an event there before and it was spectacular.”
“They had their law for the past 200 years and then suddenly you guys want to get on a plane, go there and say, ‘oh, this is bad, you can’t be doing this’ – no.
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