Bob Arum Takes A Shot At Eddie Hearn, Claims The Brit Is Considered A ‘Joke’ In The United States

Bob Arum believes Eddie Hearn is considered a joke in the United States.

Arum is the founder of the Las Vegas-based Top Rank and didn’t hold back on Hearn in a recent interview. Recently, the Brit said Arum is mentally incoherent because of his predilection for smoking marijuana and eating edibles. Arum has frequently praised the medicinal effects he garners from marijuana.

To no surprise, Arum blasted Hearn for his comments and said it’s just his typical nonsense.

“That’s wonderful, and I like edibles, and I don’t make excuses for having used marijuana,” Arum told Boxing Social (via BoxingScene). “But I don’t use it when I’m working, I don’t use it when I’m doing interviews. I do it at night, in my own private world. So, if that’s all Eddie has, that’s just typical nonsense [from] Eddie Hearn.”

Bob Arum also didn’t stop there as he claimed Eddie Hearn is a considered a joke to most promoters in the United States. He believes Hearn doesn’t understand the market and not many in the boxing world take him seriously.

“Trust me, in the United States, Eddie Hearn is considered a joke,” Arum continued. “Ask any promoter. Ask Golden Boy, ask Al Haymon—Eddie Hearn is a joke. DAZN gave him over a billion dollars to crack the US market and all he’s done is piss the money away. So if you talk about a joke, it’s Eddie Hearn how he’s acted in the United States.

“One of the problems with Eddie Hearn is that he gets involved in everybody’s business. Everybody’s business is his. He predicts how a fight will draw on pay-per-view when he has nothing to do with the fight. Isn’t he better off concentrating on a fight that he’s promoting where he does have skin in the game than to talk about other people’s fights? But no,” Arum added. “You put a microphone in front of him, it spews out a guy that can’t control himself and talks for the sake of talking.” 

As of right now, Hearn has yet to respond to these comments from Arum.

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