Seferi is not even a boxer really – Eddie Hearn
English boxing promoter and managing director of Matchroom Sport, Eddie Hearn has taken a pot shot at one time unified WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury for cherry picking.
Speaking on iFL TV the promoter revealed.
“When we were talking to sign him, I said ‘look, I understand you want an easy one’. I’ll give you an example, I said to him you could fight Travis Kauffman. That was a guy I wanted him to fight in his first fight back.
By the way, he won’t fight anywhere at the levels of Travis Kauffman for four fights – Travis Kauffman just got beaten on points at the weekend.
I said you could fight Kauffman, then you could fight Tony Bellew, Dillian Whyte and Anthony Joshua. That is my four-fight plan. That is probably about £30m there as well.
But he wanted four fights against this level – but it is going to kill his credibility and kill his value. Is he still a talented fighter? Of course he is.
He didn’t look it. Is he still the same fighter? You’d think so. He’s done incredibly well to even get back in the gym.” Eddie Said.
Hearn completely floored Fury’s argument of craving to dethrone both Wilder and Joshua.
“You can’t call yourself the lineal heavyweight champion of the world and say ‘I will go back in with Joshua or Wilder in my first fight’ and then fight Sefer Seferi,
But don’t expect anyone better for the next few. This is the problem. What you said, there is an element of truth to that, he did deserve an easy one”.
The astute boxing promoter then stated emphatically that Seferi is not a boxer.
“This geezer [Seferi] is not even a boxer really. He’s number two Albanian cruiserweight, number one was his brother. He was Ali-Shuffling.” Eddie stated categorically.
He then explained why that tangent by the former heavyweight champion was inimical to his brand and career.
“My worry was always that Fury would do this and devalue himself in the bigger fights, making those fights even tougher to make.”
Fury won via a fourth round TKO against Sefer Seferi to marked his comeback last week, a fight that many tagged as ‘comical’ to say the least.