An outspoken character like Eddie Hearn in English rugby union? It wasn’t likely to be long before the motormouth mind behind Matchroom said something to rankle the establishment.
When, last week, the promoter and talent agent was, in his words, “led down the path” of answering a question about Henry Pollock’s salary in a newspaper interview, he did not expect his typically honest response to draw such scrutiny. Not that declaring his first client in the sport should be a million-pound man worked against Hearn – nor, indeed, Pollock.
