Eddie Hearn has launched a scathing attack on Conor Benn after the boxer denied being loaned money by the promoter. Benn, who split from Hearn in February to sign a $15million deal with Zuffa Boxing, claimed Hearn never lent him a cent.
Speaking to iFL TV, Hearn detailed two loans: £250,000 for a house and £300,000 as an advance for the cancelled Chris Eubank Jr fight. 'Right now, I’m watching this stuff, thinking, I just actually think you might be a compulsive liar,' Hearn said.
Benn had earlier told The Overlap: 'No one paid my legal bills. He didn't lend me a cent, I paid the legal bills myself.' Hearn countered that Benn approached him for the house loan and later for a Rolls-Royce purchase, which was structured as a purse advance.
The promoter stated that Benn repaid the £250,000 after a few fights, and the £300,000 advance was only settled three years later following Benn's first bout with Eubank Jr at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
