The famous functionary Eddie Hearn admitted that he regrets working with the Ukrainian boxer.
Eddie Hearn lost a large amount of money due to the organization of the fight with the participation of Vasily Lomachenko. The well-known functionary admitted the failure in organizing the fight in 2019 between the Ukrainian and Luke Campbell.
“That was probably the biggest mistake I made. After Anthony Joshua lost to Andy Ruiz, people were saying that Matchroom was on the ropes. So I wanted to come back with something big.
So, the fight took place between Vasiliy Lomachenko, who was like a boxing god at that stage, and Luke Campbell, who was our representative and an Olympic gold medalist. I just spent a lot on this fight.
I want to bring Lomachenko to London, I love him as a fighter, but I don’t really understand his commercial value for a large audience, quite limited. We did very well, sold out the O2 arena, but the PPV didn’t reach our target number and we were left with a big hole in the budget. Maybe a million pounds,” Hearn told The Overlap.
Let’s remember that in August 2019, Lomachenko defeated Campbell by unanimous decision, winning the vacant WBC lightweight title and unifying it with the WBA Super and WBO belts.
Let’s remember that the legendary Bernard Hopkins first called the fight of Lomachenko vs. Haney as an example of corruption.
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