Barry Hearn & the Slave Trade Days

[SAPFO]

Anyone seen the clip of Barry & Dillian. Barry is trying to make the point that in his day, he ran it like the slave trade, as in the boxers worked for him. And that these days he has to say Mr Whyte, as the pendulum has swung, and the boxers are now in control, hence Dillian is on a fight by fight contract.

There was no malice or racism intended I believe, but feck me have you seen the comments on fbook? Proper snowflakes

[jamamb]

so many snowflakes these days, hard to say anything without ppl demanding an apology

[oogiebe]

I'm a card carrying member of the "I hate the Hearns" club but c'mon, he meant absolutely nothing racial by what he said. He's not stupid. I guess to many it was "insensitive" but his point was non-racial.

[JimStone]

Same people moaning about slavery from generations back will be going on holiday to Dubai this summer blind to the realities of today.

[knockout]

As stated above it wasn’t a racial statement !

Firstly slaves were and are of all colour and race.

Secondly the biggest slave trader in modern boxing was a black man :)

[knockout]

Same people moaning about slavery from generations back will be going on holiday to Dubai this summer blind to the realities of today.

My man Amazing post ! All the South Asian men who built those hotels, working for peanuts and probably with confiscated passports !

[Gnome]

Same people moaning about slavery from generations back will be going on holiday to Dubai this summer blind to the realities of today.

Too right Jim, great post.

[bigjack]

I really enjoyed watching the presser,was like a breath of fresh air and no way was it in anyway racist.

[bigjack]

Same people moaning about slavery from generations back will be going on holiday to Dubai this summer blind to the realities of today.

Maybe not blind but willing to ignore it to have a good holiday

[JimStone]

Bigjack,

Yep.

It is only a few years back that those pitiful souls were transported from the UAE slave camps to work in cattle trucks. Seriously. A few complaints came in from tourists so they now move them in non-descript white mini-buses. To most Westerners they are again invisible. All eyes are on Emiratis in their Lamborghinis. 'But hey, the 18th century slave trade was, like, so bad, just ask Kanye'.

[leejonesjnr]

Barry Hearn is an intelligent man, this didn't just slip out.

Eddie Hearn: The vast majority of Matchroom ticket and PPV buyers don't know who Rivas is, how can we get a load of extra IFL clicks and news site reads?

Barry Hearn: Hold my coat.

[Noxy]

I did think he spoke a bit too long. At the same time, I did listen to it so he can't have been overly boring. It's just you don't normally get such a lengthy monologue at pressers.

[rd350lc]

so many snowflakes these days, hard to say anything without ppl demanding an apology

How dare you say that !

[handsofstone]

Good to see nobody here took Bazzas comments the wrong way, Twitter is awash with the offended, bunch of pussys

[Covfefe]

I’m more confused at how Barry Hearn has come to look exactly like the talking statue from Art Attack.

[stujones]

I thought it was a brilliant introduction - and he showed "stacked undercard" just who is the daddy.

[Covfefe]

[Steveh583]

I give less than a fornicate about comments on social media

[handsofstone]

[ClivePatrickLyons]

I cannot stand the way Barry and the Son does business but Racism not something they are into I don't believe Boxing is the wrong sport to make a living out of if your a Racist.

[paddy chavez]

The Hearns always seem to have someone having a dig at them, many years ago my brother had a few fights for FW no contract just fight by fight and Barry Hearn paid Pat double to what FW offered , that's why lot's if fighters went with them they pay better.

[mickey1975]

The Hearns always seem to have someone having a dig at them, many years ago my brother had a few fights for FW no contract just fight by fight and Barry Hearn paid Pat double to what FW offered , that's why lot's if fighters went with them they pay better.

My mate said Frank was a better payer!

[JimStone]

Frank was widely known to be the best payer in the late nineteen nineties and well into the early 21st century. Maybe that changed when he lost the Sky deal?

[paddy chavez]

My mate said Frank was a better payer!

I guess every fight is different but it was double the money if I remember rightly Pat had just brought a house for 22k and got 12k to fight najib daho

[Boxerbeetle]

I always heard Frank was the better, but much less reliable, payer.