Eddie Hearn has insisted his relationship with Anthony Joshua was the reason why he could never sign his rival Tyson Fury.
Hearn’s Matchroom boxing have worked with Joshua for the whole of his professional career following his gold medal win at the London 2012 Olympics.
Since then the pair have built up a deep friendship and working relationship according to Hearn.
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He told GRM Daily: “For me, you get to a point where you want to have relationships and journeys – you want to make money – but the journey I’ve been on with AJ, we’ll never forget, and I don’t want to fall out with him because I signed Tyson Fury.
“The one thing about my relationship with AJ is it’s real. We’re honest with each other, we’re on a level with each other, we’d never lie to each other. It only takes one line at a presser when I’m up there with Tyson Fury and I go ‘this guy’s the best heavyweight in the world ‘ and then he’s like ‘what?’ That can all change
“Very few times do you start a journey with a fighter from their pro debut to the end of their career and you can have though conversations, glasses of wine when it’s all said and do and say ‘we had a good run’.”
On Fury, the Matchroom promoter admitted he couldn’t envisage ‘The Gypsy King’ returning to the summit of the division.
He added: “He came to see me in Monaco once when he was at his worst, 27 stone, sweating,” said Hearn. “What he came back from was remarkable, I sat with him and didn’t believe he’d get back to where he did. But also, I thought how can I put my heart and soul into you when I’ve got this guy and I really want him to beat you.”
We could see the British heavyweights collide in 2025 if ‘His Excellency’ Turki Alalshikh gets his way and if they both win their fights against Daniel Dubois and Oleksandr Usyk respectively.
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