Matchroom and Boxxer have been embroiled in plenty of back and forth in recent times and now Matchroom’s CEO Frank Smith has stoked the feud once more with his latest response.
There have been many issues between these two British promotional rivals – arguments over purse bids for Adam Azim and Dalton Smith as well as Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke, suggestions that Boxxer’s Shalom has been advising his fighters to withdraw from certain ordered bouts and teasing from Matchroom’s Hearn that he would like to have some Boxxer fighters in his own stable.
Shalom reached out recently and challenged Hearn to have a sit down with him to talk about their respective business as he admitted they have never actually spoken before.
Speaking to Boxing Social, Smith was asked for his response to Shalom’s comments that he is jealous and that he thinks Smith is being instructed to go after Shalom.
“I think it’s quite cute really. I’m not going to go into the back-and-forth of it all. I see people say he says it is unprofessional. I don’t think it’s unprofessional to say I don’t like someone because of the way they operate. It’s just my opinion. Don’t worry about my opinion.
“I’m irrelevant. I’m not not jealous. I’m the complete opposite of a jealous person, I like to see people succeeding in every walk of life. I’ve worked hard and I’ve done alright, I’m not bragging, but I’ve done alright. I like people to have success. I’m not jealous. I don’t take orders.”
He was then asked if the comments from Shalom annoy him.
“It is what it is, I’m not going back and forward. You do your thing, we’ll do ours, I’m happy. We’ve got a great business. I’ve got a decent involvement in the business, I’m happy with what I do, I don’t take orders.
“Eddie Hearn’s not telling me to go and do this about Ben Shalom, he doesn’t even get on Eddie’s radar. Let’s get on and enjoy the sport of boxing, but my view won’t change, that is my opinion on Ben Shalom, if you don’t agree, fine, it’s my opinion.”
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