Darren barker, yes or no?

[Rantcatrat]

Depends who he fights. If he fight Qillin or Golovkin, I think he'll come up short. If he fights Geale, I think he'll win a world title. Really don't buy into Geale at all.

Golovkin walks him down and stops him.

I'm not sold on Quillin. He knocked N'Jikam down multiple times, but nearly every round that he wasn't knocked down, N'Jikam won. N'Jikam is good, however. I think that is a winnable fight for Barker, not saying he wins it, but he has a decent shot.

Geale would probably outpoint Barker. Geale can box, but I also can see Barker beating Geale up.

Basically, he has no shot against Golovkin, but I give him a good chance against the other titleholders.

[Kirkland Laing]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

[Master]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Barker has a good chance against Geale.

[Beanz]

Barker stops Geale,Quillin, N'jikam, Lee or Proska. Not UD. TKO or KO. Rantcatrat is right about Golovkin, he stops Barker, but not the other middleweights that people are suddenly ascribing super powers too.

[Master]

Quillan beats Barker.

[Beanz]

Quillan beats Barker.

Barker exposes Quillan as being more of a Milky Bar kid than a Kid Chocolate. Cracks him like a kinder egg with no surprise gift needed.

[Galaxy]

Quillan beats Barker.

Barker exposes Quillan as being more of a Milky Bar kid than a Kid Chocolate. Cracks him like a kinder egg with no surprise gift needed.

Hah, Quillin KO's Barker faster than Martinez did!

[Kirkland Laing]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Barker has a good chance against Geale.

Let's see if Hearn thinks so.

[Fenster]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Hearn's already had fighters, in the past two years, challenge for world titles abroad on other promotions.

Whether he stages the fight or not, unlike FW, it looks like his fighters will take their chances.

[Kirkland Laing]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Hearn's already had fighters, in the past two years, challenge for world titles abroad on other promotions.

Whether he stages the fight or not, unlike FW, it looks like his fighters will take their chances.

And they've all lost. You make money as a promoter by getting your guys big fights they can win in front of big crowds in events you promote. You take a punt on your guys and pay foreign world champions to come to England and fight your guy when you think your guy can win, which is what Warren's MO has been. Then you cash in promoting your world champion.

Hearn seems quite willing to send his guys abroad to be the opponent fighter on other promoters' bills. The only guy he's so far put the money up to do that with if Froch for the Bute fight and he was helped by the fact that Bute was desperate to fight in Nottingham.

[Fenster]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Hearn's already had fighters, in the past two years, challenge for world titles abroad on other promotions.

Whether he stages the fight or not, unlike FW, it looks like his fighters will take their chances.

And they've all lost. You make money as a promoter by getting your guys big fights they can win in front of big crowds in events you promote. You take a punt on your guys and pay foreign world champions to come to England and fight your guy when you think your guy can win, which is what Warren's MO has been. Then you cash in promoting your world champion.

Hearn seems quite willing to send his guys abroad to be the opponent fighter on other promoters' bills. The only guy he's so far put the money up to do that with if Froch for the Bute fight and he was helped by the fact that Bute was desperate to fight in Nottingham.

Either way it's irrelevant to us boxing fans, right? Why would you care what the promoter makes?

Surely we just want to see the best match-ups, and if that means British fighters chancing their arm abroad that's a good thing? Please let this finally be the end of the Warren mismatch model

[Kirkland Laing]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Hearn's already had fighters, in the past two years, challenge for world titles abroad on other promotions.

Whether he stages the fight or not, unlike FW, it looks like his fighters will take their chances.

And they've all lost. You make money as a promoter by getting your guys big fights they can win in front of big crowds in events you promote. You take a punt on your guys and pay foreign world champions to come to England and fight your guy when you think your guy can win, which is what Warren's MO has been. Then you cash in promoting your world champion.

Hearn seems quite willing to send his guys abroad to be the opponent fighter on other promoters' bills. The only guy he's so far put the money up to do that with if Froch for the Bute fight and he was helped by the fact that Bute was desperate to fight in Nottingham.

Either way it's irrelevant to us boxing fans, right? Why would you care what the promoter makes?

Surely we just want to see the best match-ups, and if that means British fighters chancing their arm abroad that's a good thing? Please let this finally be the end of the Warren mismatch model

Fair enough, we get to find out how good they actually are when they're the opponent for the house fighter but then how do you support any kind of major promotional setup when your guys have all been beaten?

Barker/Rees/etc aren't going to sell many tickets after they've shown they're short of world class. No British boxer is going to h ave a very long career if they're permanantly put into tough fights, have to fight abroad a lot and so on.

Right now there's only Froch that Hearn seems willing to back with serious money. If/when Hearn does invest money in young pros and brings them through to world level is he going to throw them into fights abroad or do what Warren does, wait for an aged champ he thinks his guy can beat (Tszyu) or get him a vacant belt (Cleverly)?

[Beanz]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Hearn's already had fighters, in the past two years, challenge for world titles abroad on other promotions.

Whether he stages the fight or not, unlike FW, it looks like his fighters will take their chances.

And they've all lost. You make money as a promoter by getting your guys big fights they can win in front of big crowds in events you promote. You take a punt on your guys and pay foreign world champions to come to England and fight your guy when you think your guy can win, which is what Warren's MO has been. Then you cash in promoting your world champion.

Hearn seems quite willing to send his guys abroad to be the opponent fighter on other promoters' bills. The only guy he's so far put the money up to do that with if Froch for the Bute fight and he was helped by the fact that Bute was desperate to fight in Nottingham.

Either way it's irrelevant to us boxing fans, right? Why would you care what the promoter makes?

Surely we just want to see the best match-ups, and if that means British fighters chancing their arm abroad that's a good thing? Please let this finally be the end of the Warren mismatch model

Fair enough, we get to find out how good they actually are when they're the opponent for the house fighter but then how do you support any kind of major promotional setup when your guys have all been beaten?

Barker/Rees/etc aren't going to sell many tickets after they've shown they're short of world class. No British boxer is going to h ave a very long career if they're permanantly put into tough fights, have to fight abroad a lot and so on.

Right now there's only Froch that Hearn seems willing to back with serious money. If/when Hearn does invest money in young pros and brings them through to world level is he going to throw them into fights abroad or do what Warren does, wait for an aged champ he thinks his guy can beat (Tszyu) or get him a vacant belt (Cleverly)?

There is a middle way.

[Fenster]

Will Eddie Hearn take a risk and pay enough to get somebody like Geale or Quillin to fight in England? Barker probably wouldn't sell enough tickets to make it viable and I don't think Hearn believes in him enough to come up with the money.

Hearn's already had fighters, in the past two years, challenge for world titles abroad on other promotions.

Whether he stages the fight or not, unlike FW, it looks like his fighters will take their chances.

And they've all lost. You make money as a promoter by getting your guys big fights they can win in front of big crowds in events you promote. You take a punt on your guys and pay foreign world champions to come to England and fight your guy when you think your guy can win, which is what Warren's MO has been. Then you cash in promoting your world champion.

Hearn seems quite willing to send his guys abroad to be the opponent fighter on other promoters' bills. The only guy he's so far put the money up to do that with if Froch for the Bute fight and he was helped by the fact that Bute was desperate to fight in Nottingham.

Either way it's irrelevant to us boxing fans, right? Why would you care what the promoter makes?

Surely we just want to see the best match-ups, and if that means British fighters chancing their arm abroad that's a good thing? Please let this finally be the end of the Warren mismatch model

Fair enough, we get to find out how good they actually are when they're the opponent for the house fighter but then how do you support any kind of major promotional setup when your guys have all been beaten?

Barker/Rees/etc aren't going to sell many tickets after they've shown they're short of world class. No British boxer is going to h ave a very long career if they're permanantly put into tough fights, have to fight abroad a lot and so on.

Right now there's only Froch that Hearn seems willing to back with serious money. If/when Hearn does invest money in young pros and brings them through to world level is he going to throw them into fights abroad or do what Warren does, wait for an aged champ he thinks his guy can beat (Tszyu) or get him a vacant belt (Cleverly)?

Barker just headlined the Saturday night show. Losing to Martinez didn't harm him.

Kell Brook has already headlined 10,000 seaters, he is currently due to fight Alexander, in America, for the "world" title, on the Peterson-Matthysse undercard. Carl Frampton is selling out the Odyssey Arena in Belfast.

You may be right about Hearn in the future, but for now lets just hope he doesn't turn into Warren.