{"id":40430,"date":"2025-05-02T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/what-do-you-mean-we-cant-eddie-hearn-on-times-square-saudi-billions-and-boxings-new-reality\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:12:40","slug":"what-do-you-mean-we-cant-eddie-hearn-on-times-square-saudi-billions-and-boxings-new-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/what-do-you-mean-we-cant-eddie-hearn-on-times-square-saudi-billions-and-boxings-new-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What do you mean we can\u2019t?\u2019: Eddie Hearn on Times Square, Saudi billions and boxing\u2019s new reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney and Te\u00f3fimo L\u00f3pez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/02\/times-square-boxing-ryan-garcia-devin-haney-teofimo-lopez\">prepare to fight in Times Square<\/a>, the Matchroom boss discusses power, pressure and the man (mostly) behind the curtain<\/p>\n<p>As workers tighten bolts on a steel ring platform beneath the glare of LED billboards in Times Square on a sun-splashed Thursday afternoon, Eddie Hearn is still wrapping his head around the reality of what he\u2019s helped build.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt actually is going to happen,\u201d he says, sounding slightly astonished. \u201cUp until about two weeks ago, I thought: this isn\u2019t happening. And now we\u2019re 24 hours away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/02\/times-square-boxing-eddie-hearn-interview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney and Te\u00f3fimo L\u00f3pez prepare to fight in Times Square, the Matchroom boss discusses power, pressure and the man (mostly) behind the curtain As workers tighten bolts on a steel ring platform beneath the glare of LED billboards in Times Square on a sun-splashed Thursday afternoon, Eddie Hearn is still wrapping &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018What do you mean we can\u2019t?\u2019: Eddie Hearn on Times Square, Saudi billions and boxing\u2019s new reality\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/what-do-you-mean-we-cant-eddie-hearn-on-times-square-saudi-billions-and-boxings-new-reality\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018What do you mean we can\u2019t?\u2019: Eddie Hearn on Times Square, Saudi billions and boxing\u2019s new reality\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}