Jake Paul and Amanda Serrano

Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point

BBC

Sports, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

World-renowned sports promoter Eddie Hearn talks to the great and the good of sport, entertainment and business about what makes them tick, how they deal with success and what gets them up in the morning.

This week Eddie is back from a trip around the US for the London press event for the upcoming women's boxing championship fight between Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano. Eddie is co-promoting the fight with YouTuber and boxer Jake Paul.

Around the frantic press conference, Eddie gets time to sit with Jake and Amanda to discuss the state of women's boxing over the years, the effect of social media on big events like this, as well the effect on young people today.

This series, you can get in touch with the show if you have a question for Eddie, you can email the show at [email protected] and your email could be read out on the show.

Production Coordinator : Sarah Nicholls Sound Editor: Gurdeep Singh

The producer is Gwyn Rhys Davies, and it’s a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 5 Live.

Transcript

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0:00.0	For all things football,
0:03.0	Wow, you will not see a better goal.
0:05.0	BBC Sounds has got you covered.
0:08.0	These fans have got absolutely wild.
0:10.0	More live Premier League football than anywhere else on Five Live.
0:15.0	And there is the whistle and a brand new season begins.
0:18.0	And the Football Daily Podcast.
0:20.0	Everything Football, every day.
0:22.0	For all the Premier League action and reaction,
0:25.0	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:27.0	BBC Sounds
0:31.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hi my name's Eddie Hearn and this is No Passion No Point.
0:47.0	Hello welcome to a special episode of No Passion No Point.
0:51.0	Well I was in San Diego then then I went to New York, then I went to Phoenix, now
0:56.0	I'm back in London, this is all over about five or six days, sometimes I don't really know
0:59.2	where I am, but right now I'm at the top of the Ledinal Building looking out over London for the
1:04.7	London leg of the Taylor Serrano press conference.
1:08.1	Last week in New York it was amazing to see Taylor and Serrano's face at the New York Stock Exchange ringing the bell
1:14.8	outside Madison Square Garden and obviously when we went on sale we hoped that we
1:19.4	would do well in this huge arena and we recorded the second biggest pre-sale at all time in
1:25.5	boxing history at Madison Square Garden for this cracker on April 30th so
1:29.6	everything's coming together my new promotional partner Jake, he's actually being really good to work with actually, you know, not clowning around taking things very seriously.
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