{"id":452817,"date":"2022-07-10T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=452817"},"modified":"2022-07-10T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:24:04","slug":"eddie-hearn-puzzled-by-oscar-de-la-hoyas-criticism-of-canelo-alvarez-vs-dmitry-bivol-booking-i-dont-want-to-sit-there-watch-a-mismatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/eddie-hearn-puzzled-by-oscar-de-la-hoyas-criticism-of-canelo-alvarez-vs-dmitry-bivol-booking-i-dont-want-to-sit-there-watch-a-mismatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn puzzled by Oscar De La Hoya’s criticism of Canelo Alvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol booking: “I don’t want to sit there & watch a mismatch”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn has fired back at Oscar De La Hoya over recent criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During an interview with MMAFighting, De La Hoya claimed Hearn put Canelo Alvarez in a lose-lose situation by booking him against Dmitry Bivol. Canelo lost the fight in a bid for the WBA Light Heavyweight Championship.<\/p>\n

De La Hoya’s argument was that Bivol was an undefeated fighter with no name recognition, who could do damage to Canelo’s brand all for a “meaningless” fight.<\/p>\n

Hearn fired back at De La Hoya during an appearance on The MMA Hour<\/a> with Ariel Helwani.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is, promoters want to make easy fights for their clients, because they want to milk as much money as possible,\u201d Hearn told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. \u201cI\u2019m a promoter, and I do see the science in that. I\u2019m also a fan. I also want to sit there, if I\u2019m invested in a fight \u2014 and sometimes there is quite a lot of financial risk in a fight \u2014 I really don\u2019t want to pay big money to see a mismatch. I don\u2019t want to sit there and watch a mismatch. Sometimes it happens, and there\u2019s nothing we can do about that. Not every fight is a \u2018Fight of the Year\u2019 contender.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBut why do you want to criticize a guy \u2014 of course, out of jealousy and the fact that they fell out, there\u2019s a lot of that \u2014 but why do you want to criticize a guy for trying to be great? You\u2019re basically saying, \u2018You shouldn\u2019t have taken that fight because it was too difficult.\u2019 What sort of sport do we live in where we\u2019re criticizing fighters for taking a big challenge?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Canelo is set to have a third encounter with Gennady Golovkin on Sept. 17 for the WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring<\/i> super middleweight titles.<\/p>\n