Eddie Hearn is asking Karen Chukhadzhian’s IBF mandatory team to allow the fight against Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis to take place in Philadelphia as part of a doubleheader with Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez on November 9.
Hearn is in this situation of needing to ask Chukhadzhian’s team to make the fight in Philadelphia because he lost the scholarship offer.
If Hearn had put up the money to win the bid, he wouldn’t have had to negotiate. In the end, it would have been less costly for Hearn if he had won the bid.
There is a lesson for the Matchroom promoter: Think long term without considering the future consequences. Eddie Hearn wasn’t so concerned about saving some money; would have won the scholarship bid for the Boots Ennis vs. Karen Chukhadzhian fight.
It will be bad for Boots Ennis if he is forced to fight Chukhadzhian in Germany on November 9 as that could scupper Hearn’s plans for a doubleheader with WBC super flyweight champion Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez defending against Pedro Guevara in the co- function
With Bam Rodriguez off the card and Boots fighting Chukhadzhian with only a skeleton crew on the undercard, it’s not doing good numbers on DAZN.
If Hearn was considering the Boots fight on November 9th on PPV, he could forget about it. Fans will not pay to see a sad rematch between Ennis and defensive artist Chukhadzhian.
“We are talking with Chukhadzhian’s team. We really want him to unify, but we can only do it if we take the Chukhadzhian fight,” Eddie Hearn told Boxing News. channelI on Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis’ next fight on November 9th.
In the end, Hearn could end up paying Team Chukhadzhian a lot more money for them to come to Philadelphia than if he just won the scholarship offer. Again, Hearn is shortsighted with his view of things.
He could have avoided the Chukhadzhian fight altogether if he had negotiated the unification match for Boots Ennis with WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. giving me the extra $500K I wanted. Again, this is another example of Hearn’s shortsighted view of things. Not willing to invest money without seeing the long term consequences of trying to save a few quid.
“So we’ll probably take that fight (with Chukhadzhian) and see if (Brian) Norman can wake up or if not, try to fight Stanionis or Barrios,” Hearn said. Boots is under no pressure to move to 154 before unifying. So, for me, I would like him to do this, but it would mean going through with that fight (Chukhadzhian).’
For the next round of negotiations with Hearn, the asking price of Brian Norman Jr will probably increase from the $2.2 million he wanted this time. Once Norman Jr’ turns in another sparking performance in his title defense against Derrieck Cuevas on November 8th, he could fly into the $3 million ballpark for a unification fight with Ennis.
In other words, Hearn would have missed the boat by being too cheap when negotiating with Norman Jr, destroying Boots’ chances of ever becoming the undisputed welterweight champion.
“We’ve got that fight now. He wants that fight bad,” Hearn said about whether Boots Ennis would move up to 154 if a fight against Terence Crawford was offered to him.
The Crawford vs. Ennis fight will never happen because Hearn would never have been able to negotiate that match-up without his excellency Turki Alalshikh stepping in to come up with the finances.
With Hearn nickel-and-diming in trying to negotiate deals on behalf of Boots Ennis, he would never be able to put together a fight against Crawford. The Nebraska native would likely want $20 million for a fight against Boots Ennis, which would put Hearn in a state of shock.
