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Eddie Hearn says Tyson Fury and his father John Fury know he is a better promoter than Frank Warren and Bob Arum.
WBC heavyweight champion Fury 31-0-1 (22) is scheduled to face Hearn’s boxer Dillian Whyte 28-2 (19) at Wembley Stadium in London, England on April 23.
Longtime contender Whyte, 34, refused to participate in the initial press conference to announce the fight, drawing the ire of Warren.
But Hearn has hit back, saying Team Fury know he is the superior promoter in the game.
“Tyson Fury and John Fury, I like them,” the Matchroom Boxing boss told Pro Boxing Fans. “Also, they’re not idiots. They know how much bigger he would be if I was promoting him. They know I’m the best promoter in the world.
“But, we’ve always had this little bit of back and forward, back and forward. I think they’re both very entertaining and I think Dillian Whyte is going to beat Tyson Fury.”
Whyte and Fury have history. The former sparring partners have different versions of what happened when they shared the ring early on in their careers.
“He was getting ready to fight David Haye and his trainer at the time was trying to get him to walk me down and pressure me like he would Haye,” Whyte told talkSPORT in 2020.
“He was frustrated that day because I kept hitting him, countering him and dropping him.
“I dropped him twice that day. So he was just frustrated and he was sobbing.
“And then his coach cussed him and said, ‘Listen, if that’s what you’re doing here now, David Haye is going to knock you out so get up and get on with it.’”
The 33-year-old Fury remembers those sparring sessions very differently.
“I’ve sparred Dillian Whyte many, many times,” Fury told BT Sport. “And every single time I used him as a punching bag.
“There were times when he couldn’t defend himself and there was a time where we had to stop the sparring and Hughie had to spar him, my cousin Hughie instead.
“Hughie was about 18 at the time and he used to batter him.
“All these stories of him knocking me down 25 times in sparring – highly unlikely anyone believes that rubbish.”
Fury added: “There’s no substance to it, knocking me down umpteen times and all that.
“Just say he did knock me down eight times in sparring, we all know sparring ain’t fighting, is it?
“How many times have you seen people in the gym get absolutely busted up and then on fight night they boxed like Sugar Ray Leonard?
“Sometimes you don’t have good days in the gym, bad days whatever, but sparring ain’t fighting.
“And just for the record, he never knocked me down once. I’ve never been knocked down in a spar, ever.”
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