Frank Warren makes a MILLION pound wager with arch-rival Eddie Hearn

Frank Warren has made a sensational million pound wager with Eddie Hearn over their rival Matchroom and Queensberry corporations.

The legendary boxing promoter was talking with Mail Sport’s Charlotte Daly after the Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou press convention in London.

Asked what he fabricated from their upcoming bout on March 8, he stated: ‘If [Ngannou] hits him on the chin, he’ll knock him down, he is an enormous puncher. It’s a jeapordy struggle for AJ.

‘Do they suppose it is easy? He has the profit that Tyson did not, there’s some footage of [Ngannou] and he is seen him within the ring with the perfect heavyweight on the planet. 

‘What will Ngannou have learnt from his first struggle? Now he is aware of what he has to do to enhance. His workforce did their homework on Tyson and bought a few of it proper. Whereas Tyson is undefeated, AJ has a few defeats on his document. Will he look to that for inspiration? I’m certain he’ll do.’

Eddie Hearn runs the Matchroom boxing promotions firm along with his father Barry 

Warren, 71, runs Queenberry Promotions along with his son George and has promoted a lot of high fighters, together with Frank Bruno, Amir Khan, Ricky Hatton and Tyson Fury.

As far again as 2020 he hinted at placing the perfect of Queenberry’s fighters in opposition to Matchroom.

Now, it seems this might be turning into a actuality – and the 71-year-old sounds greater than assured.

‘We’ve bought to kind out the weights,’ Warren stated. ‘Because there’s 5 fights, there will likely be a winner one of many groups will win until we get a draw. 

‘To make it a little bit bit extra spicy, I’d prefer to have a wager on it with [Hearn] as properly. [I’d be willing to bet] 1,000,000 kilos.’

Speaking additional about the opportunity of Fury preventing AJ after his struggle with Ngannou, Warren added: ‘You heard what his excellency stated, he wish to see the winner of the struggle on the seventeenth in with the winner of this struggle on the eighth March. He’s bought an effective way of constructing issues occur so we’ll see. 

Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou go head-to-head at a press convention in London

‘There’s a whole lot of strain on AJ as a result of he is the man who’s anticipated to win. Ngannou’s able the place he has nothing to lose so it is going to be fairly attention-grabbing. 

‘He carried out extraordinarily properly in opposition to Tyson, I assumed I want I may have signed him up as a boxer years in the past. He confirmed what he is all about. Let’s see what he does in opposition to Joshua. If he comes by that he is one of many high three heavyweights on the planet.

‘I might like to see the struggle with AJ. I’ve all the time wished to see that struggle. I’m biased and I feel Tyson will win the struggle. If Tyson fought Ngannou once more it will be a very totally different struggle. 

‘He has an incredible boxing mind and is aware of what he has to do. What occurred occurred, he nonetheless received, that is what champions do and he confirmed what he is all about. He’s bought a tricky struggle with Usyk and I feel he’ll win it.’