{"id":920146,"date":"2026-04-26T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/920146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:37:21","slug":"eddie-hearn-on-ali-revival-act-the-decisions-already-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/920146\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn on Ali Revival Act: The decision\u2019s already made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Speaking about what might happen next, Hearn predicted: \u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a big split now in boxing. And I think if you go with Zuffa, you\u2019re out of the governing bodies. I think that\u2019s really how it has to be\u2026 All those fighters want to win those belts. No fighter is interested in winning the Zuffa belt. I\u2019m sure in time, maybe in five years, maybe that belt might mean something. I don\u2019t think so. The reality is I think now is the time where we\u2019ve got to say, \u2018If you sign with Zuffa, you can\u2019t win a world championship.\u2019 I mean, you\u2019ve seen Jai Opetaia lose his world title, the thing that he was most proud of, the thing that he wanted to unify and become undisputed, and now you\u2019re seeing Richardson Hitchins sign and now he\u2019s given up his title as well. So that\u2019s fine. If you sign with Zuffa, you can\u2019t have that legacy. You can\u2019t have it both ways. And I think that\u2019s how it should be. Because I think Zuffa should have the balls to say \u2018Yeah.\u2019 We know what they\u2019re trying to do. Just come out and say it. \u2018We\u2019re not going to work with you guys.\u2019 They\u2019ve already said that, then they moaned and cried when the IBF didn\u2019t sanction the fight with Jai Opetaia [against Brandon Glanton]. So, let\u2019s just get it right, you\u2019ve got to fight for two ways. You\u2019ve got to fight for legacy, or you fight for this new system. For me, the legacy will always be the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking about what might happen next, Hearn predicted: \u201cI think there\u2019s going to be a big split now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[165734,110858,1935,12434,4331,79,16,15,154040],"class_list":["post-920146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-ali-act","tag-ali-revival-act","tag-boxing","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116472227710708096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}