Eddie Hearn makes £1m bet with Ben Shalom ahead of | Boxing News
Eddie Hearn is so assured Conor Benn will beat Chris Eubank Jr that he’s ready to put £1million on the road.
Benn and Eubank Jr will go head-to-head later this yr, with the pair having launched into a press convention tour this week within the build-up to the bout.
It’s been a week of hostilities, each from the respective fighters and the promoters themselves.
The pair’s newest conflict of phrases noticed the heat turned up a notch, with Hearn difficult Eubank Jr’s promoter, Ban Shalom, to a hefty wager.
Approaching Shalom whereas he was mid-interview with IFLTV, Hearn was requested if he’d shake the hand of his opposing man. He replied: “Yeah, of course.”
Shalom added: “We’re very good friends now,” with Hearn – sporting a stone cold look on his face – mentioned: “Great friends.”
This was when the interviewer determined so as to add a bit of fuel to the fire, posing the query: “£100 grand?” an invitation for the pair to put their money the place their mouths are.
Hearn was first to pipe up: “Whatever you want, more if you want?”
Shalom responded: “I know that Eddie knows, he’s just given me £100,000.”
Hearn wasn’t one for backing down, including: “Not at all. We can have a bigger bet. We can have £1million, in escrow tomorrow morning… on the fight.”
Slightly taken back by this offer, Shalom continued: “You’re going to bet £1m on Connor Benn? Listen, he’s [Hearn] got billions, he’s inherited a lot of money.”
Sensing an alternative to land a dig of his own on his reverse quantity, Hearn wrapped up the head-to-head by saying: “Listen, that’s the first true thing you’ve said all day.”
It comes after a tense week of press conferences, with Shalom beforehand accusing the Benn camp of solely agreeing to the combat as a money grab.
Speaking within the press convention, he mentioned: “130,000 people in the waiting room [for tickets]. I’ve never seen it, on a presale. The biggest event this year.
“I do have to question when Eddie says they didn’t do it for money, it’s clearly for money, it’s clearly a cashout, it’s clearly two fights. Probably the last two fights of Conor’s career.
“But this will be the biggest fight in the past two decades in British boxing.”
Benn and Eubank Jr will enter the ring on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 26.
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