Eddie Hearn has worked with some of the sport’s biggest stars during his rise to becoming a global boxing promoter – but there’s always one that gets away.
Kicking off with the likes of Carl Froch and Tony Bellew, Hearn then signed Anthony Joshua from the amateur ranks after Olympic Gold and went about turning him into one of the biggest financial draws the sport has seen in some time.
Under the Matchroom Boxing banner that his father started in 1987, Hearn moved stateside and worked with Saul ‘Canelo’ Álvarez for six of his last seven fights.
He’s signing some future stars in the form of Andy Cruz and Richardson Hitchins, but still has his eyes on the already established names boxing has to offer.
Asked by DAZN to name the one fighter he’d like to promote, he said Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis.
Perhaps one of the pound-for-pound hardest punchers, Davis has recently proclaimed himself ‘the face of boxing’ – and it would be hard to argue that he’s not in the conversation.
With 27 stoppages from a 29 fight undefeated campaign, Davis is hot property in one of the most thriving divisions. He most recently dispatched of Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas – an event that entered into the area’s top five boxing gates.
Hearn did once attempt to work with ‘Tank’, and it was that fight he fancied putting on.
He reached out via emails that were subsequently made public by the fighter, leading to an online back and forth that, whilst not overly serious, likely stops the partnership from ever really forming.
Davis is a PBC fighter through Mayweather Promotions. He has had a tumultuous relationship with Floyd Mayweather of late, but the 50-0 retired fighter was in his corner for the Garcia fight, so it’s assumed they’re back on good terms.