Eddie Hearn has vowed to take action after Jake Paul accused him of bribing boxing judges.
Hearn and Paul have traded verbal barbs for several weeks since successfully working together to stage Katie Taylor's victory over Amanda Serrano in New York back in April. The YouTube star was aggrieved with a number of factors including the decision to award the Irish star the victory, in addition to his boxing career being branded "average" by the Matchroom Boxing kingpin.
This week, Paul made an allegation that Hearn and his promotional outfit had been paying one of the judges. "This type of s***, I’m going to call it out here in boxing because it’s bull***. Clearly, this guy is getting paid money by Matchroom Boxing," he said.
Hearn has now issued a lengthy response to Paul's unacceptable claims and has vowed to deal with the allegations in due course. " Jake Paul is good for boxing in many ways but he can also be terrible in many ways," Hearn told Matchroom Boxing when addressing the comments. "He doesn't still have the respect for the industry and history of the sport of boxing.
"What he said in terms of his allegations of corruption... is totally unacceptable. We all have a laugh with Jake with the average fighter stuff, but I can tell you now what he said is unacceptable and it will be dealt with. We take our values as a business and a family very seriously, so for him to come out with idiotic comments is extremely harmful to me and us as a business.
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"Jake's comments will be dealt with appropriately, and I am not prepared as I would be on many occasions to take it with a pinch of salt on this occasion. It is bang out of order and totally disrespectful to the sport of boxing and to us and I take it personally as they are questioning our credentials and our integrity and I won't have it. He may not care but I do.
"[He] is questioning not just the integrity of Matchroom Boxing' and he doesn't even understand it when he says 'Why do Matchroom choose that judge?' We don't choose the judge you idiot. As I say sometimes it is a laugh but this isn't and it will be dealt with."
