Eddie Hearn admits he was against Anthony Joshua fighting Tyson Fury but reveals reason for fight collapse
before Fury ended up taking on Derek Chisora in a trilogy bout on December 17 instead.
Hearn told Jim White and Simon Jordan on talkSPORT: “Tyson Fury is good or has been good at convincing people of certain things, and during those negotiations, he convinced people that it was mine or AJ’s fault.“For the record, I don’t think AJ should’ve boxed [Fury] in December. Irrelevant. He told me, ‘Take the fight. 60-40 [purse split], we take the fight’.
“We offered Tyson Fury 60-40 for the fight, champion against challenger. He turned it down. He said, ‘I want 50-50, as a challenger’. We said, ‘No’.
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