Frank Warren could be left red-faced by Eddie Hearn comments amid ‘merger’ talks | Boxing | Sport

Frank Warren could be left red-faced by Eddie Hearn comments amid 'merger' talks | Boxing | Sport


Frank Warren could be left eating his words after it was revealed that his Queensberry Promotions and DAZN are discussing a groundbreaking merger deal. According to The Sunday Times, negotiations between Queensberry and DAZN regarding the rights for specific international regions have accelerated over the last several weeks, with an agreement likely to be reached as early as next month.

Though TNT Sports — previously BT Sport — exclusively owns the rights to Warren’s shows in the UK, DAZN will likely make a bid to acquire them once they hit the open market.

If a deal between the two sides materialises, it’d additionally mark a shocking union between longtime enemies Warren and Eddie Hearn. Back in 2021, the latter’s Matchroom Sport inked a five-year rights deal with DAZN after severing ties with Sky Sports.

Now working together under the same umbrella network, Hearn and Warren will look to make peace on a years-long rivalry. Though neither promoter had spoken directly to the other during their feud, much has been said behind one another’s backs.

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The pair’s fierce rivalry reached a head in the leadup to the highly-anticipated fight between Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte on April 23, 2022. After Hearn and DAZN submitted a record-breaking offer to stage the heavyweight battle, Warren’s Queensberry swooped in with a higher offer of £31 million. 

Afterwards, Warren took aim at Hearn, who’d previously promoted Whyte on a fight-by-fight basis and wasn’t shying away from answering questions about the bout. 

“Hearn has his hands full now,” Warren told talkSPORT at the time. “He’s got that fight to get on and why does he keep banging on about what we’re doing for?

“Our fight is going to be on BT Box Office, it’s going to be a great fight to watch. Afterwards, they can go and watch all those shows Eddie [Hearn] is putting on his app.

“If he [Hearn] had his way, he’d be involved in everything. He’d have your job as well. What he had going for him is that he put in the highest ever purse bid, he held the record for putting in the highest ever purse bid … for 10 seconds. He should be delighted with that and move on. He says more about the fight than I do and I put the winning bit in.”

Warren and Hearn have recently worked together to promote several shows in Saudi Arabia, in large part due to the exorbitant amount of money being invested into the sport from there. It remains to be seen, however, how long the peace between the duo will last.

The two are set to put on a blockbuster show this summer pitting their five best fighters against each other, in one of the biggest cross-promotional events in British boxing history. 





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