Eddie Hearn mocks Ben Shalom over ‘shocking’ row before Anthony Joshua vs Daniel Dubois

Eddie Hearn has played down his spat with rival promoter Ben Shalom up of Anthony Joshua’s combat with Daniel Dubois connected Saturday night.

Hearn and Shalom exchanged words connected signifier during Thursday’s property conference, with Shalom saying helium was near ‘completely shocked’ aft Hearn threatened to sound him out.

Shalom was astatine Guildhall connected Thursday to beforehand Tyler Denny, who is warring connected the undercard of Joshua vs Dubois, initially questioned wherefore Hearn was stood connected signifier erstwhile helium does not correspond Denny oregon his hostile Hamzah Sheeraz.

Asked astir the confrontation with Shalom, Hearn told Boxing Social: ‘I deliberation it was a spot of a joke, really.

‘He conscionable came up and said, ‘what are you doing successful this picture?’. And I said, can’t retrieve what I said, thing like, ‘I’ll sound you out’, oregon thing similar that.

‘I felt atrocious due to the fact that helium froze similar a shade and present he’s doing each these interviews saying helium got threatened.

‘Sorry, helium evidently comes from a antithetic world. But, listen, he’s precise excitable, he’s learning successful the crippled and I privation him each the best.

‘He said helium was joking astatine his comments, truthful was I.

‘We’re each moving connected the card, we don’t person 2 fighters together, I’ve not dealt with him, I haven’t adjacent said a connection to him and helium conscionable came up to maine connected signifier and said that yesterday.’

When asked for his mentation of the row, Shalom said: ‘He did [threaten me]. I was wholly shocked.

‘Not truly the mode I grip myself oregon I would ever operate, I’m not going to descend to that level.

‘But yeah, to beryllium offered to beryllium knocked retired by a feline who seemingly isn’t rattled is an absorbing one.

‘But arsenic I say, we’re going to support gathering our business, we’re not going to beryllium threatened, we’re going to support signing our fighters, we’re going to support gathering them to this signifier and I’m precise arrogant of wherever we’ve come. To having that overmuch of an impact is simply a bully sign.

‘He shouldn’t beryllium threatening people, threatening to sound radical out, he’s astir 50, helium needs to turn up, I deliberation everyone tin spot what’s going on.’

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