Eddie Hearn has lifted the lid on his ringside argument with ‘arrogant f*****g p***k’ Devin Haney, which was picked up by cameras on Saturday night.
Hearn and Haney used to enjoy a great relationship when the American was part of the Matchroom stable but it has seemed to have soured in recent months.
And it came to a head at the weekend when Haney took to Twitter to claim that Hearn had snubbed his request for tickets to Saturday night’s Riyadh Season show at Wembley Stadium.
However, Haney made it into the venue and was booed when he was shown on the big screen. Then, later, Conor Benn uploaded an Instagram video of Hearn and Haney arguing at ringside.
And in an exclusive interview with Boxing News, Hearn has revealed what he said to his former client.
“It was heated,” Hearn said. “Bear in mind the relationship I’ve got with Devin, bear in mind everything we’ve been through, I could not believe he would put that out on social media.
“I received a message from him at 6am on the day of the fight saying ‘I need tickets for Joshua’. He messaged 24 hours before saying ‘yo’ but I had so much going on I didn’t reply. When I replied on Friday night, he messaged me back Saturday morning asking for tickets.
“Firstly, all of the inner ringside tickets were pre-assigned with His Excellency and all those people, plus we had months’ notice with our fighters who put in requests that we’d sorted out. So at that point we just don’t have the tickets. So I said ‘it’s not solely our show, we’re just working on the event, you may have to ask Riyadh Season for the tickets’. I got no reply.
“So then I’m sitting there at the show and he’s like ‘Wow, Eddie Hearn didn’t get me tickets, he’s so two-faced’. So I just replied saying ‘you’re an arrogant fucking prick’. I pulled him at the show and said ‘what do you think you’re doing?’ He said ‘hey hey’, and I said ‘no, not hey hey… what are you doing?’
“I said: ‘one, you couldn’t be more arrogant, two, why aren’t you messaging me asking if I’m sure I can’t sort something out? Instead you put a Tweet out? You’re like a little kid’.
“I said: ‘you used to be a good kid you did, now I don’t like this arrogance I’m seeing from you. Don’t ever do that again’. He said that I’d said something about him in the media but I was just answering a question.
“I don’t represent him, so if I get asked about Devin Haney I’m going to tell you what I think. I’ve never said anything disrespectful but I said ‘you have, so don’t ever disrespect me again’.
“I had the hump about it. I just told him straight.”