Hearn criticizes the plan “ one Belt ” of Alshikh, saying that he will limit the opportunities

The promoter Eddie Hearn says that the plan of Turki Alashikh and Dana White from having a champion per division throughout the sport would prevent many fighters from fighting for a belt. The Turki and White plan is not a solution to save sport. It’s going to get things done.

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Career freeze

With a single champion, the pretenders would take eternity to obtain title shots, especially if there are repeated revenge as we see with Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivo. The careers of the candidates are frozen while waiting to be shot on a title, they age and they lack.

Turki’s idea of ​​having a weight division champion will kill sport, preventing many fighters from fighting for belts and capturing them. What could harm sport is to allow fighters to set up several divisions to jump the line to fight for a world title without participating in this category of weight.

Leap

This is what Turki settles down for Terence Crawford to go from 154 to pass the contenders at 168 to challenge Canelo Alvarez for his titles WBA, WBC and WBO Super Middleweight. It is so unfair for the fighters who contribute to 168. If Turki continues to do things like that in the future, having a belt by division will be cancer for the combatants who compete in his league. The fighters are supposed to be all equal, but as we see here, Some are more equal than others. Will it be the standard for the new Turki League?

“A boxing belt is not revolutionary. It has been discussed several times. Until now, we have not had the financial fire power to get there so far, “Eddie Hearn told Fight Hub TVReacting to the plan of Turki Alashikh and Dana White for a single belt per division in sport.

Turki has money to try to change sport so that there is a belt, his own, for a weight category, but it is unrealistic without the four sanction organizations becoming their cases. This would not only require that, but also for all the promoters of his business to abandon.

The only thing Turki and Dana White can do is further framing sport, with their league. They will probably target the talented fighters that other promoters develop, allowing them to do the hard work, then offering them a lot of money to come to their league.

In other words, tHey would be like wolvesWatching fighters outside their business and trying to bring them back. Even doing this, they would not manage to create a belt recognized as the only one. Sport would be just as fragmented as today. It just makes me think that these guys don’t have an idea.

Title fight?

“I would not underestimate the value of the world championship belt, the four belts (IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO) to a fighter. The inheritance and the story that arrive behind, and the fact that their heroes had these belts around their size.

“In addition, sometimes when there is only one champion, the others do not really have the opportunity to fight for a world championship belt. I am really a great supporter to discover who is the best. So if there is a way to do it, I’m also for that.

“I don’t think it’s (boxing) broken, but when people talk about a solution, it’s certainly not a quick solution. With his excellence and her financial firepower, it may happen in time, “said Hearn.