Matchroom Boxing boss Eddie Hearn has exposed a bizarre $250,000 hush money offer from former client Conor Benn. The payment was allegedly designed to buy Hearn’s silence following Benn’s controversial jump to Zuffa Boxing. The fallout is officially toxic.
Hearn and Benn used to be inseparable. They built a highly lucrative partnership over several years. That relationship is now completely dead. Bitter financial disputes tore the camp apart. Benn jumped ship to Zuffa Boxing, seeking greener pastures and massive paydays. Now, the public mudslinging has reached unprecedented, chaotic levels.
The Matchroom boss is pulling zero punches about his former star’s brand-new management setup. Hearn made his stance abundantly clear regarding the people whispering in Benn’s ear.
“Take your special advisor and stick it up your f—king slimy arse,” said Hearn in a recent interview with Pro Boxing Fans.
The bad blood rapidly escalated when Benn’s legal team allegedly tried to cap the damage. They attempted to silence Hearn financially with a written agreement. Hearn scoffed at the lowball offer.
“What he did was, Conor Benn offered me money to keep my mouth shut, it said it in the email from his lawyer. We’ll give you this amount of money, I’ll tell you, we’ll give you $250,000 to not say anything negative about us. F—k off.”
Hearn rejected the payoff instantly. This isn’t just a bitter divorce. It is an all-out promotional war between massive combat sports entities. Benn’s alignment with Zuffa Boxing forces him to operate outside the massive Matchroom machine that originally built his global name. Hearn still commands immense promotional leverage and a huge media platform to drag his former fighter through the mud.
Benn desperately needs high-profile, marquee bouts to justify his jump to Zuffa. Hearn, meanwhile, is determined to scorch the earth and expose the backroom dealings. The entire combat sports community is watching this feud explode in real-time. Expect high-powered lawyers to get heavily involved as both sides continue trading furious, extremely public blows.
