Hearn criticizes the “One Belt” plan of Alralhikh, claiming to limit opportunities

Promoter Eddie Hearn says the Turki Alralikh and Dana White plan to have a division champion throughout the sport would prevent many fighters from having the opportunity to fight for a belt. Turki and White plan is not a solution to save the sport. It will get worse.

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Freezing -Srea

With a single champion, it would be necessary for the contestants to get title shots, especially if there are repeated removal as we see with Artur Beeterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. The contenders’ races are frozen while waiting for their shot to a title, they grow older, and they lose themselves.

Turki’s idea of ​​having a champion for weight division will dare sport, preventing many fighters from fighting for belts and capturing them. What could hurt the sport more is allowing the fighters to advance multiple divisions to jump the line to fight for a world title without competing in this class of weight.

Line jump

This is what Turki is preparing for Terence Crawford to advance from 154 to jump ahead of contestants in 168 to challenge Canelo Alvarez for their WBA, WBC and Wbo Super Middleweight titles. It is so unfair to the fighters competing in 168. If Turki continues to do like this in the future, having a division belt will be cancer for fighters competing in their league. The fighters are supposed to be all the same, but as we see here, Some are more equal than others. Will this be the rule of the new Turki League?

“A boxing belt is not revolutionary. It has been discussed many times. So far, we have not had the financial fire force so far,” said Eddie Hearn to Fight Hub TVReacting to Turki Alralikh and Dana White’s plan for a single belt by division to sport.

Turki has the money to try to change the sport so that there is a belt, his, for a weight class, but it is unrealistic without the four sanctioning bodies leaving the business. It would be required not only that, but also for all the promoters outside your company.

The only thing Turki and Dana White can do is fragment the sport more with their league. They are likely to go to the talented fighters developing other promoters, leaving them to work hard and then offer them great money to come to their league.

Said otherwise, tHey, would be like wolvesSeeing the fighters outside their company and seeking to bring them. Even doing it, they could not create a belt that is recognized as the only one. Sport would be as fragmented as now, but even more so.

Fight against the title?

“It would not underestimate the value of the World Championship belt, the four belts (IBF, WBA, WBC and Wbo) to a fighter. The legacy and the story behind, and the fact that their heroes had these belts around the waist.

“In addition, sometimes when there is only one champion, other people do not have the opportunity to fight for a world championship belt. I am a great believer to find out who is the best. Therefore, if there is a way to do it, I am.

“I don’t think it’s broken (boxing), but when people talk about a solution, it is certainly not a quick solution. With their excellence and financial fire, maybe this can happen on time,” said Hearn.