Hearn Calls Coppinger a 'Company Man' — and Says Zuffa Is in Cardiff

Label: REPORTED · Heat: WARM. This is a TV-row and a set of on-the-record claims, not a new official Cardiff undercard, and not a court ruling. World Boxing News writes up Eddie Hearn's exchange with Mike Coppinger on DAZN's Inside the Ring. WBN quotes Hearn: "Do you know what you are? You're a company man." Then: "Stop being a company man and speak the truth." WBN also has Hearn saying, "You're on the payroll," Coppinger replying, "I am on the payroll," and Hearn firing back, "No wonder you won't say how it is. Get him out of the studio." Those lines are WBN's quotation of the show. We have not independently transcribed the clip.

iFL TV posted a clip of the same segment under the caption that "things got heated" when they discussed Zuffa Boxing. That caption has no additional quotes, and the video has not been independently transcribed.

Coppinger answered on X: "Of course Eddie is mad. He claimed TKO and Zuffa weren't involved with Fury-Joshua. They have two undercard slots and are producing the event. That's why he was screaming and practically foaming at the mouth. He wants to take a shot at Zuffa's show tomorrow, a stay-busy fight for Adames." The "foaming" line is Coppinger's wording. The two-slots-and-producing claim is his, not a new official undercard announcement from Matchroom, Turki or Netflix — the confirmed Cardiff additions remain what Kimster already logged in 307. The Zuffa show he mentions is the card already in 303 and 332.

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WBN also has Hearn on the Cardiff undercard: "He's put on the worst undercard in the history of a mega fight... You've got the biggest fight in the history of our country and you haven't got one Brit on the undercard." That is color on a bill that is still being filled, already discussed in 321.

Separately, iFL TV captioned another Hearn interview: "THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE WITH HIM IS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING," and said he "hits out at Boxxer's handling of Adam Azim amidst more speculation around a fight between him and WBC world champ Dalton Smith." That caption is all we are quoting from the clip. A Smith fight is speculation, not an order — the WBC's actual Smith path is already in 323.

On Zuffa, iFL TV wrote that "Ben Shalom has launched a SCATHING attack on Zuffa Boxing and revealed that court proceedings are ongoing." That is iFL's caption. A quote graphic on the same post, sourced to talkSPORT, attributes this to Shalom: "In this day and age, things come out don't they? And there's a lot to come out because they have built a house on a very shaky foundation — they think that they can steamroll, they think that they can lie, they think that they can say anything and not be caught out, they think that they can do anything and not be caught out, they think there's no rules, you only have to look at the history of the individual and this is a guy now that has come into boxing and is spouting all sorts of stuff." We are repeating that as talkSPORT-via-iFL, not as findings of fact. Court proceedings, as iFL reports them, are ongoing. This is not a ruling, and it is not the Bakole-in-Cardiff booking dispute already in Kimster 334. We are not folding those two legal matters together.

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