Eddie Hearn
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get through him and then the big ones on you know the biggest fight in the history of british boxing what one of the biggest fights ever in world boxing and uh it's been a long time coming how many conversations have you had with the fury camp over the years like is it countless yeah the difference here is i mean two things i think with age and this is the same with me like when i first started 20 years ago nearly you really like you know probably my testosterone was a bit higher then i mean you're really like yeah fuck
Fuck you, yeah, yeah.
And then you end up having a row with someone and it drives a deal further apart.
And then as you get older, you just become a little bit more calm and you just realise that actually rubbing people up the wrong way, whilst fun and great for virality of views and stuff like that, is not always the best way to get business done.
So the difference here is Turk El-Sheikh, the Saudi Arabian sort of master of entertainment, if you like,
Deals individually with both fighters.
Normally, I would be doing a deal with their promoter, who at the time was Frank Warren, who we didn't like each other anyway.
So that was a bad start.
Fury and AJ are like, they can't stand each other.
So he says something.
I'm not fighting you.
But Turkey sits in the middle and does individual deals with each person.
So he goes to... We don't know what Fury's getting.