Inside Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren’s five vs five boxing tournament with mouthwatering fight set to top bill
EDDIE HEARN is ready to channel his inner Winston Churchill and offer his fighters win bonuses as he prepares to take on Frank Warren.
The British pair of promoters have put years of bitter feuding to come together for the greater good of boxing.
They are co-promoting blockbuster bouts in Saudi Arabia after Middle Eastern powerbroker Turki Alalshikh brought the two together.
And the latest treat for fans will be Hearn and Warren putting their stables against each other for a five-fight tournament.
Each promoter will choose two weight classes while Turki Alalshikh will get the final pick with everyone kept in the dark until the big reveal.
Hearn told SunSport: “We’re going to pick two weight classes, Frank’s picking two weight classes and His Excellency chooses another weight class.
“No one knows the fighters until they meet at the official press conference in London.
“So you will pick the best available fighter from that weight class that you have.
“And the big reveal will be in London. We’ll fill the weight classes this week, it will be announced I think Saturday after Joshua-Ngannou.
“We’ve got some unbelievable surprises up our sleeve. It’s going to be a big format everybody’s talking about it and genuinely, we cannot lose. We must not lose this. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
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The historic event is eyed for June 1 in Riyadh with Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol topping the deal in a light-heavyweight undisputed super-fight.
The undercard will be made up of Hearn’s men versus Warren’s and the Machroom Boxing chief will do everything he can to gain bragging rights.
He said: “We were talking about the 5v5 and he went, ‘I ain’t losing this!’ And I said, ‘I ain’t losing this!’
“I’m going into that changing room and I am giving Churchillian speeches to my fighters, potentially win bonuses and saying, ‘Listen, you’ve got to win this fight.’
“That’s why we want the fights to be pickem’ fights so we’re sitting ringside just excited.
“The opportunities for our fighters are incredible and that’s the main thing.”