Golden Boy Promoter Shares Hard Truth On Possible Alvarez-Bivol Rematch

TOKYO – The eyes of the boxing world were on Ota Urban center General Gymnasium on Friday for the anticipated bantamweight disharmonism between local phenom Naoya Inoue and English veteran Jamie McDonnell. Matchroom Promotions boss Eddie Hearn was on-hand supporting his fighter, McDonnell, and co-promoting the evening with Ohashi Gym.

Hearn has been at or near the tiptop of boxing headlines for the final couple of weeks every bit his British invasion on the American boxing establishment has begun with his company recently opening an function in Manhattan. The opening comes on the heels of his announcing a new streaming service partnership with DAZN, worth a billion (with a "b") dollars for Hearn to sign top talent and put on world-class shows in the U.S. A larger expansion to the U.Southward. market by Matchroom was widely expected when Hearn signed American middleweight standout Daniel Jacobs last September simply the calibration and speed to which he's done and then has caught many by surprise and ruffled more than a few feathers.

Amid those not having qualms with the evolving situation (at least publicly) merely rather seeing opportunities for fresh partnerships within the often strained confines of domestic boxing politics is Golden Boy Promotions. Their chief matchmaker Robert Diaz reached out to Hearn within the last 24 hours to judge the interest of (for the fourth dimension being) his only American boxer making a deal to fight their Mexican star Canelo Alvarez. The fight itself, should it be made, would take place on HBO PPV this September.

Hearn told THE RING that Jacobs "fancies the fight" and they both confidently retrieve it's winnable. When asked if it was more almost getting Jacobs a large render on his services rendered or the fight itself, which would be a blockbuster assignment for his 31-twelvemonth-sometime client, Hearn simply responded "both" as he sees no reason why a positive bargain tin can't be made with Gilt Boy, which has a potent relationship with HBO, and to whom Jacobs is at present contractually obligated to.

For their function, Golden Boy's majority possessor Oscar De La Hoya, recently sent a Tweet to unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin explaining to him that "the train has moved on…" in response to their stalled negotiation attempts at securing a rematch with Canelo. De La Hoya continued: "…going after Danny Jacobs, [Billy Joe] Saunders, and [Gary O'Sullivan]."

Hearn told THE RING "we desire that fight."

While boxing fans had wanted to see the Canelo-Golovkin rematch and others salivate at the possibility of Jacobs stepping in for Golovkin, the name to be near aware of on the same list is "Fasten" O'Sullivan, who has a working human relationship with Aureate Boy. The Irish gaelic middleweight contender recently turned down an offer to face Golovkin, citing he could make millions more in the nearly future, an obvious plug to Canelo.

Nick Skok is The Band magazine's Japanese battle correspondent and can be reached @NoSparring