Eddie Hearn - Part 2

This week our hosts Colm, Ryan and Ciaran speak to Eddie Hearn about the recent Wood vs Conlan fight, his thoughts on the Amir Khan vs Kell Brook fight and his ambition on bringing big fight nights back to Belfast.

Episode Transcript

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Thank you your continued support. Wereally appreciate it. Hello folks, and
welcome back to the broad Boxing Podcast. I'm Karen McCourt and I'm joined by
co host Colin mcgigan and rah McLoughlin. Well, guys, we're joined by
a very special guest today. We'vebeen chasing him for a while. He's
left me on Red I don't knowhow many times. Yeah, we started

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the match for him, Daries,we went off with him and Frank and
we've waited a couple of months toget him back on. So we're delighted
to welcome back Eddie. Hearn Edward, how are you doing? Very welcome,
nice nice hoodie, I've seen youpick you still wearing. Of course
you're talking. You're talking to misstheir climdon boxing. They already I've always

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liked Michael, but I thought hewas fantastic last week. I mean it
was. It was the greatest partI've ever seen, you know, I
still can't believe it, the atmosphereeverything, you know. I sat there
the whole time. I was satright in the middle, like Jamie Kongen
to my left, and I hadthe dad to his left, and like

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in the first round, I couldtell it was going to be one of
those sort of quite awkward because I'mvery vocal, and obviously it's his some
you know, so he's going tobe vocal as well. It's never a
good idea, I think, toput people that close because you know,
he's obviously going to be full ofthe motion and I am anyway, so

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Lee would come out actually started around really well, and I was like
nearly up on my feet. Yeah, you know every time because leewood punch
is so hard you could hear itthrough the whole fight, you know,
up close, like every time hehit the body. Yeah yeah, oh
it's h yeah yeah. And thenobviously Condent put a big overhand left and
the dad sort of stood up wentand at the end of the round,

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I was like, look, justwant to make it clear, like I'm
going to shout out the whole fight, so you're welcome to do the same,
but don't moan, because you knowI'd go he's holding shut up,
he's not really really awkward. Andthen obviously I actually said to him because
I had a few bit Liam Smithand a few others behind, and I

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will kept saying, I think LeeWoods run that round. I will shout
out what you're talking about, youknow, And I kept saying, he
ain't out of this fight. ButI never expected that to happen, you
know. And actually in probably inthe light the although there was a knockdown
in the eleven, which was youknow, I actually think it was a
knockdown. There's irrelevant anyway, butI was pretty much preparing myself to say

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to mister Connel and Senior, congratulationsbecause your son has been fantastic tonight.
I mean, he really boxed beautifullythe whole fight. I think he gains
anyone else, you know, itwas a different story. But just I
still can't get over it. It'slike a dream, you know, because
I kept thinking to myself, imagineif I said to Frank Smith, thinks
I said, imagine if you couldjust chin him with one shot, you

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know. Ben Davison said to meat the start of the eleven, what
do you think I said? Hehasked to knock him out to him,
you know, he can't win thefight on points from here. And then
I screamed at Lee at the startof the twelfth round, just saying like,
you've got to knock him out,you got to knock him out.
I think Michael's mistake was to beaggressive in that last round really actually Andy
eleven, because he had the fightwrapped up. Really, I mean,

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honest, I think it was todo with the knocked down, because that
changed your mentality goner the twelfth.If if Megal wasn't we think it was
a slip. But if it wasn'ta slip and it wasn't enough, then
but it was a slip in myopinion, I think it was. Yeah,
it was a sit it was causedby I mean, it's very it's
quite difficult really, like if hedidn't land the punch on his chin,

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he wouldn't have gone over what Imean, But it was definitely off balance,
Like, yeah, there's no doubtabout it. But I mean,
I just feel it. I thinkhe was told going into the twelve that
he needed he needed to stop Hi. I actually disagree with that. I
thought he was two rounds minimum upgat into the gaining into the last round

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probably three up. I agree withone of the scorecards, but I think
as well he was tired by thenas well, Like he looked conn and
actually looked really tired. He waslike the eighth for the ninth, but
then came back Lee would look likethe round after that he busted his load
and he looked so it was.It was just NonStop but just an epic
fight. Epic fight. Yeah,there was a real I think there was

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a real clode over boxing after TurrellTiller, and I feel like a lot
of people were like half giving upin the sport blad maybe putting the casuals
a little bit away from the sport. And then I feel like that fate
and suddenly made that Oh anybody isspoke to me about literally all week as
high good that it was that sortof it's done, the ward of the
goods for boxing, I think.So, yeah, I think I think
we needed it. And you know, although maybe you could have disagreed by

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two of the cards by a roundlike pretty much they were all fair enough,
weren't there as well at the timeof stoppage, which was nice as
well, But yeah, I didn'ta lot of luck involved in great fights
emerging, we can put fights togetherand we can think this is going to
be a great fight. I didn't. I didn't honestly expect Wood Conlin to

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be one of the greatest fights ofall time. I thought would be a
great fight. I thought it'd beinteresting. I thought I thought Michael might
be cute and try and be clever. But I never expected it to play
out like that. I mean someof the exchanges that the stuff that we
captured from the behind the scenes stufflike up close from ringside, like the

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closing twenty thirty seconds of virtually everyround from the six or seventh round.
It was just incredible. And Leewoodshowed so much bravery as well, because
he was hurt, so many signsof the body, but you could see
it and he was just soaking itup. And it was remarkable with pretty
pretty amazing for Lee Woods, tobe honest with you, because like if

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anyone's been around like close to boxingin the circuit, you would have known
that Lee would basically two three yearsago was just trying to get six rounds
somewhere for two and a half grand, you know, and he made a
lot of money on Saturday, andhe'll make a load of money in the
next fight, you know, maybeeven the rematch. Jamie Connor messaged me

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this morning just to say because thefirst time I've caught up with him since
the fight. Obviously, Michael Connoris desperate for the rematch and Leeward has
sort of got it all in hishands really, but it's a big fight.
I was just about the touch onthat, So forget about the product
and the ring for a second.Let's talk about everything around it. The
production was unbelievable. The fans camein their thousands from Ireland. In my

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opinion, it seemed like there wasmore Irish fans are than than English.
I'm not too sure, you know, I can't have a serious conversation with
you through the forest one earlier inthe day and they're obviously on the pists
up from that game onder the butobviously helped as early atmosphere they said,

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I mean it holds like nine thousandthat arena, right, They said there
was three thousand Irish in there,but I think something like two thousand Ish
traveled, right, And then obviouslyyou've got the Irish that are already in
England anyway, and you know,so forth. But they were really loud,
and I think the one thing thatI was really pleased about was everyone

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behaved himself really like. I'm surethere was a couple of little scrub somewhere,
but I didn't see. You know, normally you'd see everyone stands up
and there's trouble here and trouble like. It wasn't like that. And when
the stockage came in, there wasa few things pinned by me in the
ring, a couple of coins anda vape as well. I see it
on the ring. I thought,sorry, I didn't know you're into the

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vape to Ryan. But because ofand like the fact that he was hurt
and stuff like that, it wasone of those atmospheres. But everyone,
I think because the fight was sogood. I think everyone and Lean was
great as well. I got inthe ring, he was he didn't realize

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that Michael was in trouble on thefloor and I sort of said listen,
and he was like, you know, to everyone, And I think everyone,
like you said, Ryan, Ithink people see fights like that and
just go like aptly not respect it. You know, it's a great sport
in the world, boxing and sometimesyou know, going back to that decision
a couple of weeks ago, itsort of makes you or like, oh,
I don't I about boxing, Andthen you, like you said,

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you see a fight like that,you just think it just was the numbers
to give really good. I mean, like Michael obviously there's a breakdown from
Ireland and which was very positive aswell, and then you know you've got
your subscriptions new subscriptions, and thenyou've got the audience as well. So
it was like, I think theexact numbers like seventy percent engagement across total

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subscription, which is good. Imean, I was watching an interview the
other day. I think it's BotBarron's like, you know, the Zone
have got sixty thousand subscribe I meanthese people are absolute tits. I mean
total tits. I mean, butlisten, I give I haven't got the
exact numbers right in terms of hisshow on Friday Night, which was on

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BT, but I will pull thenumbers and I guarantee you guarantee you out
viewing figures on the Zone on Saturdaynight. For Wood Conner smashed the BT
Friday Night Big is to Smitherings andwe're only and we're only little old z.
You know, we're just a littlesmall streaming platform out there apparently,

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so I want to talk something withhim, and obviously you may know you
probably do know. I'm sure youdo, Michael Steel. I think with
top ranks, common do an endyou you've put yourself and you've said numerous
seasons keeping a job in different fingers, that you really want to build your
platform in Ireland. Is it somethingthat you're interested in In terms of Michael,

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You've seen what he was like onSaturday as stock as rules. In
terms of Ireland, I think wewere actually talking about this before, Like
Michael, everyone knew Michael was talentedforever, but no one really knew if
he had the balls or the heart. And I think he showed that now
that there's a whole new generational fansbehind them also, so that something maybe
you'll be looking into down then.Yeah. I think Ireland is always an

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important market for us, and Ithink when you look at the emerging stars
him through, Michael has always hadgreat profile from the Olympics, of course,
and I think what Saturday through wasthat he is a world class fighter,
you know, and he's a futureworld champion. Sometimes the fans don't

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like the fact that a fighter hasbeen sort of signed that big promotional contract,
got almost opportunities before they deserved them. But I always look at that
and think, why are you,Bob. You know, he's earned that.
You know, he was a greatamateur. Obviously a little bit of
controversy, but big character. Goodluck to him. You know, he
went out and debuted at Madison SquareGarden. I think he was the main

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event was and the l or somethinglike that. So but like you say,
they really love it when you showgreat heart and you box really well,
and he boxed fantastically. Well,you know, you've got so much
even like early on in the night, you know, you go back to
Thomas Carty, you know it's onlywhat six o'clock. I think he was

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fighting. All of a sudden,it was like great noise in the arena.
Gary Culley box really well, he'sgoing to be a danger for everyone.
At one hundred and thirty five pounds. Keevan ad Yaco trusted into co
main event with nine thousand people intheir seats, you know, against what
was actually quite a tough Mexican Southfor as well. Late notice you've got
Tommy McCarthy fighting Chris Billham Smith comingup. You know, could could win

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that and then all of a sudden, So we're always looking for talent.
You know, you could bring MichaelConnan back in a fight at the Odyssey
for example, and pick that placeout immediately, even if it wasn't a
huge fight, you know, withKeevan arm see how Tommy gets on and
all those other guys. So mI think that in terms of a streaming

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market, it's probably a little bitbehind England the UK in terms of its
mate. Not definitely not technology,but I just think, you know,
maybe the way that people digest sportis just a little bit different. At
the moment, then we're seeing solidnumbers, but not spectacular numbers. I
think Taylor Serrano will be a veryinteresting fight for us because I think that

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will really do big numbers. AndI think the way that the Zone operates,
you know that it's a very transparentsystem that because of the global platform,
it's easy to see which territories aretuning in and which territories a potential
Like I'll give an example when acodieboxed Cislap the other week. The numbers
in Poland are huge so all ofa sudden, the zone look at that

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and go wow, Okay, sowe now have x hundred thousand subscribers in
Poland, so we should look atlocalized events in Poland. And obviously the
more support that comes in from Ireland, the more they would look at that
market and say we should be doingmore in Ireland. So everything's sort of
scientific and built around the numbers.But taking the numbers away, I know

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how fun it is to do ashow in Ireland, and you know,
if we can do one, greatAnd I think for Michael Connan, the
only thing that will be sitting inhis head now for the next well maybe
forever, he's rematching Leewood. Youknow. Is it a possibility at the
City. I think so. Imean I think from from the convent,
from the from there were more theinterviews and things I've been hearing from Leewood

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and Ben Davison. I don't thinkit's top of their list. I think
there's three options. I think there'sLeo Santa Cruz. I think there's the
winner of Warrington Martinez next week obviously, which could be a really big fight.
And there's the Column rematch, now, the Condumn rematch, maybe the
biggest of all those three, youknow, I mean, we have just
witnessed one of the greatest fights I'veever seen, and you go from Nottingham

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Arena nine thousand to the city ground, Leewood, I don't know if Santa
Cruz does the city ground, youknow, Warrington does, but Martinez probably
might not. But certainly the columnrematch just does. But I think you
know we've he would It's like Iget a fighter to that position, who

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he's now? Was he thirteen three? Something like that? And I just
think, like I can't believe what'shappened to you. You know, You're
you're going to be a millionaire,you know, and you're going to secure
your kids' futures, like for maybeeven if you keep going for another couple
more, maybe they're kids as well. So I will look I look at

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it now. I'm a promoter,bit I'm advising Leewood. I'm looking at
those three options with one simple decisionswe made how much you know? So
and if I'm Leewood, I'll godon't really see the point in rematching content
because I've beaten him and I wantto fight in America. I want to

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do this, But how much,and then it depends on how much Michael
Condom wants, depends how much tozone want to pay, depends if you
can fill up the city ground,which I believe with it. But the
answer is a lot of money.So you know, you know how they
always say angles nurne, do youknow what I mean? Well, yeah,

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yeah, but the thing is here, and he's like, sometimes you
sit down with a fighter or normallytheir manager of their advisement, this is
how much we want. But thenumbers are so transparent. You know,
when you're looking at an event ora show, you know you've got your
your revenue streams. You've got soyou've got your domestic TV, your international

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TV, your sponsorship and your GAPEright, and then you've got your expenditure.
You've got the undercard, you've gota venue higher, you got home
sells, you've got flights, you'vegot drug chest testing, you've got cars,
you've got security, you've got youknow, and that's how much money
is in the show. But there'sno real science from a fighter or their
team when they're going I want twomill you know, it's like we kel

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Brooke kell Brook the other day,we're affer him a great deal to fight
Connor Ben and his dad came backand he went, kel wants ten million,
and it's like, what where haveyou got that from? Would you
just like that number? Like it'snot it's not really even close, is
it. It's like treble. Well, I've just off with you on Kelbrook.

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I've told us on the story afew times. The first time I
mat do you Addy? I wasabout seventeen and it was a Frampton Martinez
one in the Odyssey, and yeah, I got a photo were you?
You were a complete handleman. Itwas before you were obviously a universal superstar
to I mean, I would haveturned it down now, but I know
you, but I asked I askedKelbrook. I asked Helbrook for a photo

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and he said no. I thinkhe was only British champion at the time.
So buzzing, I was buzzing thatyou didn't take there, you didn't
take the fed because like to befor obviously that even that fight, it
did good numbers, but like there'sno sort of prosperity. You not not
the numbers I hoped with. Andthey can they can, you know,
they can sort of smoke it up, but they wanted that fight to do
a hundred thousand buys. They're sayinghe got to five hundred thousand, but

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I'm not so sure. But listen, I would have done it. It's
not I'm not gonna like you andsay, oh yeah, I turned that
fight down. I was in thediscussions, but I just didn't think that.
Again, same same thing. Whenyou're running a business and when you
especially in boxing, you have torely on that that mathematical um, you
know, that that solution to decidehow much you're going to spend on a

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fight or a fighter. If not, you go skin or you do your
conquers. And we're not really intothat, you know, because of that.
But because of that reason, youknow, and not because you you
behave or you you make decisions onBravardo and Ego, because you know,
Frank Ron's always sort of said aboutmy old man, oh well he's just

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a chartered account. Yeah it isfucking great for a result. I'm so
glad he's a chartered account, youknow. But but that's how you got
to run your business. And likethat kel Brook thing, it was like,
look and they were sort of playingme off against Sky and actually pay
this. You can get it butif not, we're going to go to
sky and I'm right, and inthe end you just have to go.

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Good luck boys and listen, theydon't they did great. I mean they
had it off. Can't Connor band. But he's not he's not gone to
retire as he would be a goodthing. I mean, Ama Khan came
on to me the other day andsaid, I mean everything at this stage,
and I don't blame him because Amyhas done everything, but everything's just
about how do we knick as muchmoney as possible. So he's just like,

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it's quite an interesting situation. Actually, So Amir Khan has lost to
kell Brook. Amir Khan's got arematchicles which he's exercised purely because he wants
to see if he didn't get anymoney not to fight Kelbrook. Right,
So, but now he's sort ofhe's pretending that he wants to fight kell
Brook. Kell Brook probably wants tofight Connor Ben, but he's probably getting

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all kinds of bullshit in his earabout other stuff. And then Amir Khan
now comes on to me and says, okay, how much to fight Connor
Ben? And now Amma Khan comeson to me and says, okay,
because Sky, I've got the option, like if it's commercially viable to do
the match, which they're probably sayingit's not. So then Amy con comes
on to me and says, ifSky don't want to take this fight,

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would you be interested? Oh?Thanks a lot. That's like a girl
coming up to you game. I'mgonna ask this guy out over it.
But if he's not interested in anyI'll come back to you. Frank isn't
interested interested? Yeah, exactly,I'll come back. And then he came
on to me the other day andhe said, how much for me to

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fight Connor? Events? Like BuddyHell? So, I don't know.
I think I like Hebrew those fights. Connor's in a really good position.
I mean, I know, allof a sudden, the problem is with
hype. You know. Connor Benfights Chris span here and First South for
his ever boxed and here is niceand tough. It's a good fight.
While we're waiting to go into thebig ones. Oh Chris head and I

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said eighteen months ago, Chris spanHeiden's last fight he was headlining on Showtime
against Boots Tennis, who I thinkit's the best world Await in the world.
But Connor's going real nice, likereally nice actory. I'm really pleased
with the way he's progressing. Ithink he's going to be a big star.
But if he can beat Ben Hidden, he needs a brook a Browner,
even a can't. I don't mindthem can't fight. I think you

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know that's certainly a lot of peopletune in, but um, yeah,
it's just funny, like the market'schanged so much obviously with us leaving Sky
and go into the Zone and havingthis big budget Sky stepped up, you
know, then it's got it's gotreally competitive, which you can only be
great news for the fighters. Soit's just going back to the aris Faders
one more time. Obviously you havegot leg the legs of Kievan they m

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you've got like a few other youhave Tommy but has coming up. We're
going to quickly touch on as well. Um, who are we to give
you advaceret I reckon you make abeat lane from McConnon number one. You
sat up match room, he hadto quing Belfast. If you need three
charismatic gays to ron it, we'reread here for you and you bring back
me, you bring back these bighonesty needs because we're fucking dance like no.

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But that's the thing, like thegreat thing about certain cities. Newcastle
was one like Liverpool's and other leadsas well, all these seasons like you
know, if you get it right, you bang it out, you know.
So like when we went back toNewcastle and started going back there with
rits and bang like, they werelike, oh, we've been buying for

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a big night of boxing. Andthe same in Belfast at the Odyssey.
You know, if you get butyou've got to get it right and you've
got to get the right people andlike it's the right mix. And but
some people the problem is is theydon't get built on the way out.
Ryan but that was a big example. You know, we did well with
Ryan Minette, but we never bangedthe place out. And you think,
you know, that guy was fightingfor the world title, then unifying the

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world title. Still had like fiveand then I think six and a half
or seven, and it was good. But it's like the builds important.
Keevan's only had eleven fighters. He'sa baby, really, you know,
and how good would he be Thatwill depend on probably the progression over the
next year. I think he's avery very tented fighter Tommy, you know,

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Gary, Kelly mc connor and allthese people. So the good and
the bad thing about Irish fight fans, and particularly when you go into Belfast
is the well educated fight fans.And the bad thing about that is you've
got gotten a good show. Liverpoolis the same. Liverpool's the same.
If you put on a good showin Liverpool packed out straight away. If

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you put on an average show inLiverpool, you get an average crowd.
And that's the same in Belfast becausethey know they're boxing. So you know,
I think a lot depends on whatyou can deliver. Do you think
do you think keeping and fighter somewheredander Land? Fight keeping against Fowler,
keeping against Jason Quigley, keeping againstSpike O'Sullivan, keeping against Luke Luke Keeler.

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You know these these are the fightskeeping against Felix Cash. I mean,
like you know, these are keepingagainst you Bank. That's a big
fight for Belfast. You know that'sthe kin of fight. And actually,
to be fair to you, Bank, one thing that he likes to do
because his dad times was go intopeople's backyards. Remember Sam's story and you
know all those guys years ago,so you bank against Keevan in the Odyssey,

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big fight, but keep you know, Keven's had eleven fights and that
was I would say I felt abit harsh on him on Saturday, but
I did give him that slot andit was like, you know, I
saw him sort of walk out andhe lapped it up and it wasn't his
best performance, but I tell youwhat, he would have learned so much
from that. You know, itwas it was, it was huge for
him. But he needs another seemwith Keevan, I want to next fight.

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I want to put him in withlike a zero meta or you know,
maybe if Sileski gets beat by Charlolike you know, comfortably, like
like a good, good, solidname, and then I think from there
we can start moving on a Rosardomaybe like keeven against Rossardo at the Odyssey
later on in the end of theyear. There's a kind of fight that
that could make sense. But youhave to if you want to invest in

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those fighters, at some point youhave to make the gamble to go,
you know. But the problem isnow the shows are so big. I
had this conversation with Chris Billham Smithand Shane mcgiggan. They really want to
fight in Bollman. But I justcan't go to the zone at the moment
and say, Chris Billham Smith andTommy McCarthy, can we do a show

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in Billman. It's a really goodco main event, which it is on
the back ben band heading card.And that's one of the reasons that I
wanted Chris to take that fight,because there's no value in fighting someone no
one's ever heard of. You know, when I went to Shane and respect
to Shane mcgriggan and Chris Billam Smithbecause they accepted the rematch, they didn't
have to take the rematch that wasBut I said to him, look,

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you've got to be in fights thatpeople want to see. At first fight
was Billiant. I love watching thatfight so and it was it could have
gone either way. You edge tofight, so let's see it against common
sense. And that's that's kind oflike the conversation you have with other domestic
fights. Now. You know,a fight that it could get made early
next week is Waxy against Craig Richards, and there's no reason why the winner

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of that shouldn't fight Callum Johnson orentering a Yard or even Callum Smith.
You know, Callum Smith should reallyget a shot of the world like everywhere,
so old. But if it's notavailable, at what point do you
just say it's a bit like LiamSmith and Anthony found it. At the
time, both fighters were like,never ever thought of that fight once.
Next thing, you've sold ten thousandtickets and you get an amazing night in

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Liverpool, so you know we're herejust to try and make the good fights.
I want to touch on next weekabout me and Ray there. Unfortunately
k Ha's the method, but it'sit's a massive nate do you can see
in our opinion potentially it could beend up a three way street Key Warrington
and make a number because if ifit may happen, the word goes to

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unifavor Santa Cruz. Is that thenthe thinking hold on a second we could
make maybe in the summer the winnerin the Park and Belfast Well, I
think that if Josh Warrington win.Josh Warrington's turnaround has been incredible. I
mean, I still can't believe weboxed Marichieo Lara as a warm up,

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but unfortunately that's that's that's been andgone now. I watched him Calver night
when I was in San Diego,I was like, I cannot believe it's
just one of them where I senta few names to the team, and
to be fair, like you lookat miricie O Lara's record if you watch
tape on him, like he kindof looks like the guy you should be

(27:33):
accepting. And then that week Iwas like watching him on the Pads game
and then obviously in the ring andthen the other nine and the Rosabes.
Yeah, yeah, and it wasthat was the same as well. But
I think that if Warrington wins,he's really going to want to unify because
that's what he wanted to do,you know, whether that's Navaretti, whether

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Leewood gets elevated to super Champion,or whether he fights the winner of Wood
and Santa Cruz or whatever. ButI think if Keiko wins, I think
that's probably a good a good spotfor Mick because Keiko, everybody knows Keiko
and belfos Keiko against against Conlon outdoorsin the summer. That's a big,

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big fight for the world title,so it's going to be interested. I
think it's a really tough fight forJosh Barrington because I'm watching Keiko train,
I know he's getting on but hejust looks so confident and so full of
life. And he was actually theone because I said about them the Galahad
rematch, you know, Gangs toAmerica, and he was like, I
want Warrington. He goes I foughthim before and I felt I should have
won that night. But I knownow, like I know I can knock

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him out, So I think it'sgonna be really another really interesting fun fight.
Has anyone has anyone to act audioto keep on my team news is
because he looked about forty fourteen fortyseven at least at least. But I'll
tell you what that that kid Galahadfight, I mean I couldn't believe it.
I mean, kid Galahad batted him, batted for five rounds or whatever

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it was. And I just itwasn't even like, you know, when
you got that fight with obviously lastweek you could, you could, you
knew Leewood can punch, and butbut that fight, I was like,
absolutely, no way, no wayis Keiko Martinez winning that fight. And
you know he's he's a tough kid. It would be a war with with

(29:23):
with Warrington because he won't stop comingforward. You've got their bridges as the
chiefs I believe, is it?Well, yeah, Maxi Hughes is really
the chief support. But because he'sgot the same trainer as Josh Warrington,
we had to separate the two.So Ebony Bridges will go before the main
event. Actually a really good fightto see the Roman who's one of the

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best world champions actually certainly in thelower weight classes as well. And you
know, the thing is of Ebonyis you've actually got a respect her,
Like she puts in the graph andI know that, you know it's weighing
in the laundry and stuff like that, but that's only part of the act.
That's an act to get attention toroad followers, to grow interest.
She can fight and she's really toughand that'll that'll be a war as well.

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She doesn't stop coming forward and youknow she's she's really really tough.
I'd love to see her when Iworld out it actually, I think I
think it would. You know,she's put a lot of working so it's
going to be a very tough fight. Make sure. Yeah, do you
think do you think if if shewins up you could see the Courtney rematch
afterwards? Yeah? I mean you'vegot Jamie Mitchell. You've got Courtney.

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Courtney's coming backward from a knee injury. So whether she's going to be ready
to jump straight into a big fightin a summer, we'll see. But
she's due to a dreamatch Jamie Mitchell. But then you've got Bridges against Mitchell.
Bridges against Courtney's always going to bea big fight because he don't like
each other, you know, andand and that's what that's what makes a
big fight. Eddie. I've seenI've looked at your finger. Is that

(30:47):
from the body shut? The Franks? The Frank Smith? Yeah? Yeah,
that was embarrassing. Can we seeit? Yeah, So basically I
ate him with a right hand andhis elbow. But there's quite a lot
of people watching it, so Ithought, like, what you do?

(31:07):
Stop? So carry on and thenliterally I thought I'll just throw the left
hand, and then one round laterI threw the right hand again and he
hit him on exactly the same spoton the elbow and like this bone he's
just like sticking out up here atthe moment. So yeah, it's terribly
embarrassing, but it's definitely my time. It was like, did you see
did you see the Frank Warren interviewthe other day. Oh, we've been

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standing it around everywhere. So hegoes, he's going off on one and
he's going I think the interview,I think it was. I said,
you know, he was moaning aboutthe zone and that Eddie hands like the
profile profile, what profile has hegot? He goes, he goes,
oh, I mean, I'll seehim beating up that little fat kid.

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So obviously we've clipped that. Someonein the office has clipped it, and
he's gone out and order group chatswith like poor Frank's the worst. I
think Frank Smith is the fucking NAIsguy. Were a hotel and he went
to me, I'll joy do somebody spies and I thought, you're doing
a bit of running late. Ithought that actually good fitness, to mix

(32:14):
it up a little bit. Wewent in there. Next thing, We've
got the entire team from Metro andboxing and then like all the fighters that
are in the hotel just came inand I was thinking this is getting a
bit serious. But like my oldman family the next day were you're beating
up frankful half your size. Hemay be half my size, but he's
about the same way these days aswell. So it's the biggest boxing promotional

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company and the world is the battery. It's like, the thing is is
we should never change really and althoughwe're a family business and although a bit
the business is getting bigger and biggerall the time, it's sad to lose
that, you know, like tofeel that you can't do that, I

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mean, and I really disagree withthat. Like, yeah, there might
be some people go, oh,you know, that really wasn't a good
look corporately. Well, guess whatwe do what we fucking want, so
that's good look. A good lookcorporately would be Tommy Coyle pulling your bags.
Then the same thing, you know, that's the same thing. But
we just like to you should nevertake yourself too seriously. But and yeah,

(33:25):
there was a lot of people youknow that like to sort of known
about things like that. Do yousee them in the range a lot?
Like that's just that so and welike everyone to have funie before before because
you know, we're a busy manand you've a lot gone on and you've
to go and get your fingers intoo as well. But they but we've
got little tweets about that. Somewant that they ask you so a look.

(33:47):
People have been tweeting us asking whereas Addie Hernson and broad Box for
much? Can you give us likea defenditive diater anything? So what we're
doing signing broad Boxing to match Roomunder zoo so many queeds today. To
be honest with you, I've seenit across my social media as well.

(34:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well Ithink if we can keep getting a sign
ups in Island boys, then youknow, I think we've got a good
chance of doing something. Because let'sbe honest, if we're going to come
to Ireland, the only thing peoplewould work with the you dot you saying
we'll see the subscriptions on his ownrace. Really oh so it's gotta be
like that, is it? Sothat's the way I think it works normally,

(34:32):
be the other way the good I'lltell you. I'll tell you a
funny story. My dad's just justpublished his autobiography, right it really really
see my book I've been in aboutthree months, right, he's been writing
is for about ten years. Reallyreally really thought about the title my life

(34:57):
that is it? And like Isaid to him the other day, because
he was getting you know, whenhe got his deal, obviously he got
paid a lot less than I did, which was really my amusement as well.
But I said to him the otherday, you know, how's your
pre sound numbers? And he's like, yeah, yeah, solid solid.
I'm like, so you watching hisgat and buy Barry her in my life

(35:22):
he is actually really good rude butAddie Addie, Casing offers competition all the
way. Addie Addie, it's alwaysa pasure to get you on. We're
going to keep an eye his everyevery problem. So we're doing another one
in about four years. Yeah,McCarthy Bill Smith, it will be me

(35:45):
again. Let's let's let's let's gettogether with maybe in the build up to
McCarthy Billiam Smith seven, Yeah,yeah, thinking Manchester Hotel. Sit there
and see when you want to back. My eyes were lighting up as he
to set up and tell us that. I actually thought he was going to

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say ran and call speak the nextweek at warrant the Martinez. Then he
comes off for that. I willsay that. I'll promise, I'll say
that, boys, And thanks thanksagain so much. Guy's thanks for her
boys. Oh you guys think he'sgonna get up. I'm thinking I think

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she's gonna get up. Can youget up. Can you get up big?
Oh my goodness, shut up toget out.