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Eddie Hearn Blames Himself After Conor Benn Jumps to Dana White’s Zuffa

Hearn owned Benn’s exit to White’s Zuffa Boxing, saying he “blame myself” for not locking him into a new Matchroom deal earlier. “I made a mistake. I misjudged the character,” Hearn added, after guiding Benn for a decade through stadium nights and a 2022 drug-test storm. Zuffa, backed by TKO and Saudi partners, keeps raiding boxing’s promoter ecosystem at pace.