The fight between Eddie Hearn and Dana White risks overshadowing the December 11 mega-fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
It’s not Hearn and White who will be in the ring in Cardiff, but their promotion war has been the focal point of the build-up to the fight – and in general, they have entered the boxing world from White’s Zuffa Boxing game in January.
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Spencer Brown, Fury Tyson’s manager, gave his thoughts on the bitter feud on “The Ariel Helwani Show” on Tuesday.
“I think Eddie is winning the war with these words, but they’re two completely different personalities,” Brown said. “[White’s] a hardened bulldog who’s a great businessman who’s taken stuff from nowhere.
“I remember the first UFC. … That’s where it came from — he basically made fun of it. He made his game about it. All credit to him.
“Eddie Hearn’s taken the boxing from his father, ran with it, and was incredibly successful.”
Although Brown — and many in the boxing world — are excited to see the two behemoths of the fight sport promotion fight, Brown acknowledged that he wants to see them get it on and move forward together for Fury vs. Joshua
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Hearn and White were once pleasant to each other, as far as their mutual results appear, but that friendship ended as soon as they entered the boxing ring by TKO.
“You’ve got two men there – I can’t see why they can’t.” [be amicable]” Brown said. ” Does it have to be bitter and nasty all the time? I don’t think so.
“I saw Eddie Hearn at one of the UFC Vegas fights.” [the Sphere in September 2024]and he was called there, and it was well done. Zuffa is introduced to boxing, of course, they will both be territorial, won’t they? Especially Eddie.”
In March, White went on “The Piers Morgan Show” and challenged Hearn to a boxing match – an invitation that Hearn quickly grabbed with both hands. KSI offered the Misfits boxing promoter a $20 million pot for the fight, while White dismissed the possibility of a release.
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“I think if Dana grabs him in the jaw, he’s out,” Brown said, joking about the potential matchup. “If Eddie keeps him at bay and keeps him in check, I think he’ll beat him.”
But Brown is interested in the build up to Fury vs. Joshua extended far beyond the Hearn-White feud. His company, Goldstar, has been central to Saudi Arabian boxing, and although he believes the whispers of the country’s power have been inflated by boxing, he admits that the December 11 fight could be among the kingdom’s last events of this magnitude.
“I don’t think so” [their involvement in boxing] let’s go anyway,” Brown insisted. “Everything calms down. The money has to come down, because no one can save that kind of money by paying.
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“I think” [Fury-Joshua] is one of the last great battles they were going to see [Saudi Arabia do]. I think you can get one or two big fights in the next year, but I don’t think they’ll go away laughing. I don’t think I left any thoughts about the game.
“Obviously, the whole thing comes down to Turki Alalshikh and how he’s progressing and how his health is. We all heard what he said the other day, and it was really heartfelt.”
Alalshikh was a great force behind the siege of the kingdom in boxing for several years. He spent a significant amount of money on the major event and ecosystem of the game, which he says is his passion, when he learned that his time on Earth could end due to cancer and a brain tumor.
With the formation of Zuffa Boxing and the slowness of the Saudi events occurring around the same time, the plotters thought that the industry had been reduced to the most active boxing in boxing, and was replaced by an economically feasible investment over the course of TKO’s Zuffa Boxing.