EDDIE HEARN wants Anthony Joshua to fight Kubrat Pulev in front of just 1,000 VIPs at the Royal Albert Hall or Olympia in October.
Joshua would become Poshua and the Sweet Science the Elite Science if promoter Hearn pulls off the “proper glitz and glamour event”.
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Anthony Joshua could return to boxing against Kubrat Pulev after the coronavirus lockdown in an upper-crust night at the Royal Albert HallCredit: PA:Press Association
Promoter Eddie Hearn wants to see ‘AJ boxes’ on a VIP night for the Joshua vs Kubrat world heavyweight tight fightCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Hearn claims crowds could return to boxing within four months as the coronavirus lockdown is gradually eased.
And the first big example could be AJ’s unified heavyweight title defence against obligatory challenger Pulev.
Having seemingly ruled out holding the contest behind closed doors. Hearn told BoxingScene.com: “I really want to do the fight in the UK.
“I definitely see crowds coming back as early as September. So I am thinking AJ boxes in October or November.
Charge people a lot of money to go, dinner before, a party, drinks and everyone is a couple of metres apart from everyone.
Eddie Hearn
“Why can’t we go to the Royal Albert Hall or Olympia and do 1,000 people, a proper glitz and glamour event, charge people a lot of money to go, dinner before, a party, drinks and everyone is a couple of metres apart from everyone.”
The Albert Hall, famous for the Last Night of The Proms, has already hosted top boxing events.
Seven of Lennox Lewis’s early pro fights, including his debut, were at the concert venue, while Muhammad Ali had an exhibition bout there in 1979.
And fellow London centre Olympia usually houses exhibitions of a different kind, but the 1921 world light-heavyweight title fight between Georges Carpentier and Ted “Kid” Lewis is on its boxing CV.
Hearn has also revealed audacious plan to host Dillian Whyte’s showdown with Alexander Povetkin in his own GARDEN.
And he is planning unique crossover contests, where a boxing ring transforms into a UFC cage between rounds, spearheaded by a bout between Whyte and MMA star Francis Ngannou.
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