Oscar De La Hoya took to social media to taunt promoter Eddie Hearn over his top fighter Anthony Joshua’s loss to Daniel Dubois last weekend. De La Hoya said fighters who sign with Hearn’s Matchroom are guaranteed to lose or get hurt.
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Former two-time heavyweight champion Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) has been a big winner for Hearn since he signed him more than a decade ago and has brought in a lot of money for his company. AJ is getting old, and the timing was bad for him to challenge knockout artist Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs).
In retrospect, Hearn should have waited until Joshua fought Tyson Fury before making the fight with Dubois. All Joshua had to do was fight a weaker opponent like the previous four tomato cans while waiting for the Fury to face Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on December 21st.
Hearn would probably admit now that he made a mistake by pitting Joshua against IBF heavyweight champion Dubois. He probably thought that Dubois would fall under the hard punches of Dubois as he had in his losses to Usyk and Joe Joyce. However, those were fights in which Dubois was very into them and landed a lot of huge bombs that knocked out both fighters.
DDD was robbed of his title fight against Usyk last year in Poland, after taking him down with a body shot in the fifth round, which the referee mistakenly ruled a low blow. That should have been a KO win for Dubois.
“Anthony Joshua was knocked out in the fifth round by Dubois. It was really an amazing and fun fight, and I love AJ. However, this was another huge L for Eddie Hearn, who is literally 0-11 against Frank Warren this year.” , said Oscar De La Hoya during today. Clapback Thursday edition.
It was a fun fight between Joshua and Dubois last weekend. It was the one that AJ came close to winning in the fifth round when he hurt Dubois, but he made a mistake by throwing an uppercut while going for the kill. Joshua’s trainer had told him to throw an uppercut, and that was useless instruction.
“This continues the curse of Matchroom, meaning that if you sign with Matchroom, you’re either guaranteed to lose or get hurt,” De La Hoya continued.
“To make matters worse, Eddie Hearn faced his old friend Devin Haney to the crowd at Wembley. Eddie, you can’t build a fight to save your life. Anthony Joshua had the world at his fingertips, and you found a way to throw off his career.
