Full Context Hearn: AJ, Rugby and Sugar Reef 

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Hardest fight I've seen in a while is Tinds trying to fight his way in to the convo

Tinds was like the third wheel at the Eddie-Hask Bromance there 🤣

This is class

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Hands down one of the best shows you guys have done! Please get more people like this with an honest view of rugby, along with a great ability to be interesting when talking!

Love or hate him, great guest and a fresh perspective on rugby as a sport, solid work GBR!

Hask and Eddie are the perfect duo

Would actually love matchroom to take over Premiership Rugby... Think they'd grow it massively over a few years. Current marketing is awful for it

First time watching this podcast and honestly you guys are great definitely gonna rewatch

Great interview. I think that the smaller stories, make up the bigger picture. More like this please, great stuff, thanks for putting it together. Also liked the lack of incessant pop up ads. First one after an hour or so then got a few before the end. No problemo (thumbs up emojis)

I both love and can't stand Eddie at times. I do think he is the best promoter in boxing by far and he's incredibly entertaining to listen to. Great podcast guys! I'd love to see this again at some point over the next year.

Eddie Hearn is total class. He gets wayyyyy too much shit from people when he does his best and has organised great fights.

Get Eddie on again!! Listened to this twice today!! #HaskvsMarler

Big oak table ? It was a plastic fold up table 😂😂😂

what a great guest, really good podcast!! love hask and tins shitty shoes and eddie rocks up in D&Gs

I thought this was absolutely brilliant. Make no mistake Hearn is an astute and ruthless businessman. Class

Legend Eddie. Love your work mate.

Great episode lads.

Keep up the good work guys

Superb episode 👌👌👌

Best episode yet

Enjoyed that

Honestly I think Eddie gets business and it defo interesting hearing he’s thoughts. I do find it slightly grating how Tinds and Hask somehow both seem to veiw themselves as not part of the ‘prawn sandwich crowd’. Hask went to Wellington one of the most expensive boarding schools in the country and Tindal is married to the kings niece ! Rugby might have a problem with its ‘posh’ image but hasks and Tinds are the reason that image exist!! No Matter how much they like to mock and distance themselves from it.

U can tell James was excited to chat to him they all kept talking over eachother

Hask just likes the sound of his own voice. Maybe he should do a GBR special where he interviews himself

Wish Hask didnt cut off Eddies story about his experience at the UFC. Wouldv liked to hav heard what he thought

Best pod so far

Brilliant deviation from the norm...also a keen boxing fan .

Nice banter

"Everyone makes up numbers" 😂😂😂😂

Great podcast 👏 Just a comment around the Silent Sunday part of the podcast - When children are constantly being told what to do from the sidelines it removes their decision making skills. Therefore instead of being remote control managers it's better to create a supportive environment for the players to develop 😊👍

Rugby league could be massive here. Absolutely huge in Australia. They've created a culture from it and its way more entertaining then the modern union game.

Grassroots football silent Sunday.... Been accustom to this phenomenon. What has the world come too

Gallen is a league player, Eddie getting afl and nrl mixed up

The 1 question I want to ask the superstar DJ is …. Have you stopped using sync yet?

Love listening to Eddie, very entertaining. Don't agree with his women's cricket comment - definitely progressing! Maybe he saw a dud match, though plenty in the men's game too. Like the idea of more non-rugby guests too.

Fair comments from all about league, balanced from the hosts. I think league and union need to have a good look at the club game

Really enjoyed this,Tom Kerridge was brilliant!

Not heard much from Eddie before but an interesting guest.

Let's hear your boxing XV 🥊

Great conversation with Eddie, had a proper laugh and learnt quite a number of aspects from watching this. Intriguing to hear his perspective on how the English view their current situation in rugby. As a South African, you can clearly see we are in a different boat as rugby is thriving in our country on all levels. Hopeful that changes for you 💯

The All blacks weren’t even mentioned once in this podcast… shows how much he knows about rugby and the stats of the game 😂

Jesus! Haskell is unbearable. Tindall seems like a good guy though

Just here to post an honest opinion. Not here for the Rugby (not a fan) but here for Eddie Hearn. Haskell is a personality and great host, Tindall is an extra and could be done without

The problem is, the sports the Hearn's grew up in are single player sports. "Mano a Mano". You can have uncontrollable ego's, superstars, hangers on, curating a narrative etc... Rugby is a team sport, where yes, there is room for individual brilliance, but without the other 14 players on the pitch, you'd be absolutely nothing... I agree that rugby is too sterile and that could definitely be hyped up, allowing players the room to be themselves, rather than just corporate figures. But it's a very difficult balance to find. In rugby, you're literally putting your body on the line, for your team. If Shane Warne was a rugby player, would he have been tolerated? Absolutely not! But because it's cricket, he could be managed, because the risk/reward balance favoured the maverick, whereas in Rugby, are you really going to put yourself in a hard place for an arrogant "superstar"?. Rugby needs to go the way of field hockey with punishments as this is one of the area's that's killing the game. It's not "if" but "when" a red card is going to be given, and now at the top, it's game over... It's very simple in field hockey. Professional foul / stupid infringement / backchat = 2 minutes sideline with green card immediately. Secondary offence / more dangerous foul = 5 minutes sideline with Yellow Card. Dangerous / Reckless Foul = 10 minutes sideline with Yellow Card. Red is ONLY used for deliberate physical violence, repeat Yellow Cards and/or abusing an umpire/accusing of cheating. And field hockey is a very dangerous game. No physical contact like rugby, but with a small hard ball and long hard sticks with ball speeds of up to 160km/h and a game that is very fast, a lot can happen. And if you have to look at something in slow motion on replay over and over again, it's not "clear and obvious". Show on-field incidents in real time, so the ref gets a sense of what is actually possible or not. You can slow down a bit if you are looking at intent, but not the action as it's ridiculous...

Imagine if Eddie Hearn was representing Fury rather than Joshua, his life would be made so much easier. I wonder what his talking points would be?

Well I learned Steve Davis is a DJ!

Maybe put it back on terrestrial tv

Mini and Junior rugby don’t even play competitively in England.

lol exact same spiel as on Peter Crouch podcast.

Wish Hearn would put his hands on me 😳🥴

Cricket changed when the IPL started auctioning players and having stars on teams with local talent. Could rugby do something similar and attract the best players in the world playing with local British talent in a super tournament?

would've liked to have heard less about boxing and more about hearn's ideas for rugby. this is basically him reaching out to the rugby audience on behalf of AJ/ boxing, there's plenty of eddie gifting his gab all around youtube and this was just another grain of sugar on the loaf.

I think Hearn would have done League a lot of good

Give Eddie Hearn the reins on rugby when you had the Wasps '16/17 season - Wade, Cirpiani, Le Roux, Beale. Current Bears line-up with the Radradra, Piutau, Genge. Rugby is missing a trick. So many entertainers but playing a dying sport.

Eddie didn't know the Boston Red Sox played at Fenway Park. Whilst he was standing in Fenway Park....so don't hold your breath 😂 Rugby will never be able to change whilst the Unions are run by the kind of people that hold high and medium office... Matchroom is a very clever business, they realised early on that the money is in the tv rights.

Eddie is the dog balls! And he’s speaking facts, there’s hardly any publicity or none at all in rugby these days, turn on sky sports news you never see or here anything about the rugby. It’s a dying sport and is showing with our national team

Do miss Alex but this was great, Hask on fire, knock out my own mum on a couple of snake bites was the quote.. Eddie Hearn is brilliant.. Tinds just reigned them back and threw in the one liners.. only thing missing was Joe Marlon and Scott Quinell.. 💥💥

Tinds assesment of the 1st Ruiz fight is inaccurate, he wasnt walking it, it was close, yes he'd put Ruiz down one but he wasnt hurt, hed been caught in the pocket trading before then did again. it wasnt bad luck, it was AJ not boxing well. Tinds assesment is one of someone who either didnt watch the fight or doesnt know what he was watching.

Interesting insight into the perception of rugby players in Eng. Very much like Australia. Private school and upper class make up. In NZ and Pacific Islands, its the poor mans game.

Not too sure you can say League is bang in trouble when union prem teams are going slowly and surly bust.

Eddie's a spoofer, a very successful spoofer, but a spoofer nonetheless

Mike Tindall is minus criac!

Very interesting guest. I don't get the obsession with rugby's need for massive growth. I mean, sure, growth is necessary for clubs and all the various stakeholders to make money and for the players to get paid their fair cut from that. And yes, it does need to stay up with its competition. But the massive growth doesn't necessarily equate to success. You lose things when money takes over. You lose values, the community loses connection with players and players lose the feeling of community representation. There are other measures of success beyond numbers. I know rugby is still a long way off that but we should be careful what we wish for.

Rugby needs Eddie Hearn - Players V Players, drama, beef, coaches saying what they want, Marler's of the world saying outrageous things, teams v teams rivalry, england crossing the line in a V formation - All drama which will grow the sport and hit the headlines!

Rugby Union is 10x more entertaining than boxing imo.

Of course, my favorite parts were Eddie's thoughts on Rugby....

Hask is the chubby bloke

... in which the GBR lads realise how feminised their sport has become. Great episode.

Not for me.

Unedifying sycophancy. Hask and Tinds trying to “geezer up” made me cringe. The ex-public school boy and the man who’s married to the 20th in line to the throne. Eye-rollingly awful. And I’m usually a fan.

bring back the rugby, what with Eddie and haskel me me me me completely fed up with this podcast. Tindell is humble but terrible everything else. Stinks of haskell thinking he is a DJ by his 'set' at twickenham (please move the track on it was boring)!

Eddie's class

A really enjoyable podcast ..love Hask he's such a tw@t in a good way 😉

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