Hearns: Brook is facing the biggest challenge of his career against Senchenko

brook766By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn believes that his hand-picked opponent former WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko (34-1, 23 KO’s) will be the toughest challenge of unbeaten #1 IBF Kell Brook’s career this Saturday night at the Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

While many boxing fans see Senchenko as yet another safe fight that Hearn has picked out for Brook to pad his record with, Hearn is painting Senchenko with entirely different brush.

To Hearn, Senchenko, #8 IBF, #11 WBA, is a class fighter capable of giving Brook a lot of problems.

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Hearn: Golovkin isn’t keen on fighting Froch

froch55By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says that he’d match his fighter IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s) against WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (27-0, 24 KO’s) if Golovkin would agree to the fight.

Hearn says he would make that Froch’s next fight if Groves would say yes to it, and Hearn thinks it has the potential of being a pay-per-view fight in the UK as well as the United States.

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Hearn: Golovkin vs. Froch woud be epic at 168

golovkin453By Scott Gilfoid: It seems that Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch (31-2, 22 KO’s), may be getting some ideas about a possible fight between the 6’1” Froch and the 5’10” IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (27-0, 24 KO’s) after watching Golovkin make short work of Britain’s Matthew Macklin (29-5, 20 KO’s) last night in blasting him to smithereens in 3rd rounds at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort, in Mashantucket, Connecticut.

Hearn said this on his twitter after watching the talented Golovkin smash up Macklin: “GGG is a beast. Golovkin v @Carl Froch at 168 would be epic @HBOBoxing.”

You notice how Hearn included HBO with the tweet. It looks like Hearn is trying to plant some seeds in the minds of the top executives at HBO about trying to make this fight happen. I think it would be a good one, but not for Froch though.

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Eddie Hearn to announce a major signing on Monday

hearn1By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn will be holding a press conference this Monday to make an announcement about a major signing to his Matchroom Sport stable. There’s speculation that it might be lightweight Kevin Mitchell (33-2, 24 KO’s) or possibly WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns. However, Burns’ promoter Frank Warren is saying he still has him under contract, so the chances are it won’t be him.

Mitchell lost his last fight to Burns by a 4th round knockout last September, and has now lost two out of his last four fights. I’m not sure how good of an acquisition he would be to Hearn’s stable if he is the one that will be signing for him. If Mitchell can’t beat the likes of Burns and Michael Katsidis, then what does that suggest about his future?

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Hearn: There was nothing Rees could have done to beat Broner

broner874By Scott Gilfoid: British promoter Eddie Hearn realized early on last Saturday night that his boy Gavin Rees (37-2-1, 18 KO’s) was in a hopeless situation in his unwinnable fight against WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s).

Hearn saw that Broner was just going to be too strong, too talent, and too fast for his fighter Rees, and he was happy when Rees’ trainer Gary Lockett made the decision to have the fight stopped in the 5th round shortly after Rees had been dropped by a vicious left hand body shot by Broner.

Lockett could have kept Rees out there, but the way that Broner was dominating him there really wasn’t any point in leaving him out any longer.

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Hearn: Frampton is a “superstar” at 122

frampton55By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for EBU super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (16-0, 11 KO’s) is already calling the young 5’5” Frampton a superstar in the 122 pound division despite the fact that he struggled in beating Kiko Martinez last night in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Frampton constantly ran and clinched, and ducked below the waist to avoid getting hit. It was constant running and when he wasn’t running, he was clinching.

When Hearn was interviewed after the fight, he was like he was like a broken record, saying “He’s the superstar of the super bantamweight division.”

Superstar, eh? Frampton struggles to beat a 26-year-old Kiko Martinez by running all around the ring for 9 painful to watch rounds, and Hearn is calling him a superstar?

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Hearn: Alexander WILL fight Brook next, possibly on Garcia-Judah undercard on April 27th

brook2By Scott Gilfoid: According to British promoter Eddie Hearn, #1 IBF welterweight contender Kell Brook will be fighting for the IBF strap next against IBF 147 pound champion Devon Alexander in a fight that could possibly end up as the co-main event on the Danny Garcia vs. Zab Judah card on April 27th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Hearn is working with Golden Boy Promotions to try and get the fight on that card. If not, Hearn wants to take it to the UK.

Hearn says that Brook will either be fighting Alexander for the IBF welterweight title next or he’ll be fighting for the vacant IBF title if Alexander chooses to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. Hearn believes the International Boxing Federation will strip Alexander of his title if he chooses to fight Mayweather.

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Hearn: Brook has to bully Alexander to win

brook1By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn believes he’s got all figured out how his inexperienced fighter Kell Brook (29-0, 19 KO’s) can beat IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander (24-1, 13 KO’s) in their fight on February 23rd in Detroit, Michigan.

Hearn thinks that all Brook needs to do is rough Alexander up in the same way that the head-butting Timothy Bradley did in beating Alexander by a 10th round technical decision victory in January 2010. Nevermind the fact that the Alexander-Bradley fight was halted after Bradley collided heads with Alexander in the 10th, hurting him. Hearn still thinks this is the way to go for Brook to beat Alexander on February 23rd.

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Hearn wants Bute on Froch-Kessler 2 undercard in May

bute2By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch, is hoping that former IBF 168 pound champion Lucian Bute will agree to fight on the undercard of Froch’s next fight in May against Mikkel Kessler in the UK. If Bute doesn’t want to fight on the undercard, then Hearn is still hoping he fights on the same night elsewhere.

It looks like Hearn is hoping to UK boxing interested in a Froch-Bute rematch, and by putting Bute on the Froch-Kessler II undercard then he’d be in a better position to accomplish that.

Hearn said to Sky Sports News “Lucian looks set to fight for the WBC title next and we all like to make that happen on the same night as Froch v Kesser II, in Canada, Romania or even in the UK on the same card.”

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Hearn: Bute or Stevenson will be next for Froch

Image: Hearn: Bute or Stevenson will be next for FrochBy Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Eddie Hearn has narrowed down IBF super middleweight champion Carl Froch’s next opponent to either Lucian Bute or Adonis Stevenson. Hearn and Froch prefer that they get Bute next, but they doubt he’ll take the fight for a variety of reasons, one of them because they think he’s not eager to get back in the ring with Froch for a second helping of defeat.

Hearn said to espn.co.uk “It will be Bute or Stevenson next, followed by Kessler and Ward. I really think Ward would come to the UK and we could do it at an open air football stadium next summer.”

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