Eddie Hearn reveals major first fight on Matchroom vs Queensberry card \u2013 on one condition Matchroom BoxingEddie Hearn has teased that a world title unification fight could be included on the highly anticipated Matchroom vs Queensberry boxing card. It was confirmed earlier this year that Hearn will gather five of his Matchroom stable to take on rival promoter Frank Warren\u2019s Queensberry stable in a five-on-five event, expected to take place later this year. Saudi promoter Turki Alalsheikh has confirmed his plans to stage the event, with Hearn and Warren now working together on the Riyadh Season shows after years of being at loggerheads. Raymond Ford could be included in Matchroom vs Queensberry card One world champion who could be included on the card is newly crowned WBA featherweight world champion Raymond Ford. The US fighter dramatically stopped the big punching Uzbek fighter, Otabek Kholmatov, to win the vacant title at 126lbs on Saturday, and his stock has now risen dramatically as a result. And Hearn has teased a unification bout between Ford and British fighter Nick Ball, who is promoted by Warren, could be in the works \u2013 if Ball dethrones WBC champion Rey Vargas on the undercard of Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou on Friday. \u201cHe found it tough to make the weight this time,\u201d Hearn said of Ford. \u201cHe is already talking about moving up to super-featherweight but when you win a belt like that, you really want to defend it. \u201cA lot of your value is in the belt. Next week, in Saudi, there is a great fight. Nick Ball against Rey Vargas. It will be really interesting to see who wins that. \u201cIf Nick Ball wins, maybe we get that cut stitched up and stick Ray on the five v five. He has become a star now in American boxing and a lot of people watched that show tonight. \u201cA lot of people will have become a Ray Ford fan and I would like to see him make one or two defenses and maybe a unification fight and then move up to super-featherweight. \u201cWe have some champions there as well and he is going to be around for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eddie Hearn reveals major first fight on Matchroom vs Queensberry card \u2013 on one condition Matchroom BoxingEddie Hearn has teased that a world title unification fight could be included on the highly anticipated Matchroom vs Queensberry boxing card. It was confirmed earlier this year that Hearn will gather five of his Matchroom stable to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}