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The Irish Sun
a day ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Eddie Hearn reveals dad Barry suffered heart attack at League One play-off clash then went to boxing days later
BARRY HEARN suffered a heart attack during Leyton Orient's play-off clash with Stockport last month, his son Eddie has revealed. But amazingly, the veteran promoter was back on his feet in time to attend the Dave-Allen Johnny Fisher fight just a week later. Advertisement 5 Eddie Hearn followed his father into the promotion business Credit: Getty 5 Hearn's heart attack occurred during Orient's play-off clash with Stockport Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 5 Eddie has spoken out on his dad's ordeal Credit: YouTube / Boxing Social Hearn, 77, felt discomfort early on in Orient's semi-final first-leg and had to be taken to hospital. The snooker supremo subsequently had a third stent installed, having suffered two previous heart attacks. Reliving the ordeal in a conversation with "Five minutes in and he said 'I'll just see out the game'. Unfortunately he had to go down to the doctors and get taken to hospital, he had a heart attack. Advertisement READ MORE IN SPORT "He had another stent. He's had three stents now, three heart attacks." Hearn made a remarkably quick recovery, heading to East London's Copper Box Arena just seven days later to witness Eddie continued: "As far as he's concerned he's brand new now. He played cricket at the weekend for Essex Over-70s. He scored 60. "It actually happened the weekend before the Johnny Fisher fight, so it was back in May, and he went to the Johnny Fisher fight, five days after the heart attack." Advertisement Most read in Snooker Exclusive Exclusive BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK 5 Hearn was in attendance as Dave Allen beat Jonny Fisher at the Copper Box Credit: Getty Hearn, who turned 77 yesterday, was determined to get back on his feet quickly, with Eddie adding: "On the Monday he had a stent put in to his artery. Tuesday they let him out. So he gets back home Tuesday. "So I'm like 'right, well you won't be coming to the Johnny Fisher fight'. He says 'no I'm f***ing coming to the Johnny Fisher fight'. Advertisement Barry Hearn reveals pool is the 'next darts' and predicts sport will be massive in five years "No, what are you doing? 'I'm not missing the Johnny Fisher fight!' I said 'dad, chill out'. He goes 'I'm not living my life like that, I've had a new stent, I'm brand new.' "That's what you're dealing with. When he goes, he's actually 77 today, my dad, it could be next week, or it could be in 10 years, you just never know when your time's up. "But you will be able to say he lived to the absolute max of his life. And that's a great thing to be able to say." Orient went on to beat Stockport and book a place in the League One play-off final. Advertisement Ahead of the Wembley clash with Charlton, Barry Britain's leading sports promoter told SunSport: "I've been paying for therapy ever since that day against Rotherham! "I get nightmares about it. This is my opportunity to cleanse myself, take away my therapist bills, go back to normal sleep patterns." Unfortunately for Hearn, who sold the East London club in 2014, Orient were beaten 1-0 by Charlton under the Wembley arch. Advertisement 5 The father and son Hearn duo can often be seen at big fights together Credit: Getty
Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
AJ to make boxing return this year as two-fight Tyson Fury plan emerges
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Joshua is recovering from elbow surgery but his team are plotting his ring return for late in 2025 after preferred opponent was ruled out due to being picked for Saudi fight Anthony Joshua is plotting a return late this year - with old rival Deontay Wilder on a shortlist of potential opponents. The British heavyweight star has not fought since he was knocked out by Daniel Dubois in an IBF title clash last September. But now 'AJ' - who is recovering from elbow surgery - is plotting his path to a Tyson Fury double-header next year and American Wilder is one option promoter Eddie Hearn is looking at. Wilder, 39, is returning to the ring next week against Tyrrell Herndon as he looks to shake off back-to-back defeats by Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang amid retirement calls. Hearn said: 'I don't see why not. I mean, we'd take that fight in October, November, December. It's still dangerous. Like someone said to me, oh, you think he'll be in a dangerous fight? I said, they're all f***ing dangerous, mate. "We want to fight Fury. And the plan for us is to fight October, November or December, and then fight Tyson twice. Or certainly once. And I can't see that fight not happening. As long as AJ comes through at the end of the year.' Joshua and Wilder were in talks around 2018 for what would have been an undisputed heavyweight title clash between two unbeaten fights but discussions broke down. American Jared Anderson, German Agit Kabayel and Efe Ajagba are other names Hearn is considering for Joshua's return. Former foe Dillian Whyte was in contention until he was matched with highly-rated star Moses Itauma for an August showdown in Saudi Arabia. Joshua is now 35 and has four defeats on his record after earlier career losses to Andy Ruiz Jnr and Oleksandr Usyk twice. Hearn believes 2026 will be the London 2012 Olympic champion's final year in the sport but won't rule out retirement earlier if he doesn't shine in his return bout later in 2025. The Matchroom chief added: 'The proof will be this fight. Like I said the other day, 2026 will probably be his last year in the sport. 'But this next fight will tell us everything. You know what I mean? If camp doesn't go well, if the performance isn't of the same level, you have to evaluate after each fight. The moment you don't look good in camp or don't start sparring well that's when you have to think about your position. But that's not happened yet.' Chris Eubank Jr will face Conor Benn in a rematch either on September 20 or October 4 after the September 27 date was ruled out due to the Premier League fixtures. Tottenham are at home to Wolves on the original date.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
The Cardinal at St. John's is the Free Press' Top Public Golf Course in Wayne County
This is the first in a series looking at the best public golf courses in the six-county metro Detroit area. It's a rare thing when a high-end course opens, and it's even rarer when that course opens to the acclaim The Cardinal at St. John's earned shortly after its 2024 debut. Advertisement Architect Ray Hearn did a masterful job reworking and pretty much reinventing St. John's uninspiring 27-hole resort course from the 1980s and transforming it into an upscale track in Plymouth that's both challenging, pretty and playable. The carts are some of the most comfortable I've ever been in and the touchscreen GPS system tracks players ahead of you in order to avoid hitting into them. Because it's attached to a beautiful red-brick resort, playing the Cardinal feels like an entire luxury experience. The course is immaculate and feels like a nice throwback – you know, like way back in the 1990s – with a fairly straightforward design that doesn't try to trick you into thinking you're in Scotland. Hearn resisted the urge of most his peers who show up and immediately proclaim: 'We've got to get rid of 30,000 trees!' The par-5 fourth hole is reachable in two swings, and the first of back-to-back par-5s at The Cardinal at St. John's Resort in Plymouth Township, July 17, 2024. It's American parkland golf at its bucolic best: big greens that are subtle without being devious, boulder-lined ponds, perfect sand in manageable bunkers that are outlined by normal rough. No pot bunkers or fescue and native grasses that catch, trap and steal your ball, if not your chance of saving par or bogey. Advertisement The Cardinal is, after all, a resort course, which means level of difficulty shouldn't be daunting for a guest who might be playing it for the first and only time of their lives. Hearn obviously learned the lesson Jack Nicklaus never did when he constructed brutal test after brutal test during the height of his design career. MORE ON THE CARDINAL: I just shot my best golf round ever at St. John's The Cardinal. Maybe you can, too. But being playable doesn't mean the Cardinal is a pushover. Even though there are few forced carries, if you miss the fairway you'll find some of the thickest rough among any public course in metro Detroit. The rough around the green is a different story. Hearn put thought into the options he wanted to give his golfers when they missed their approach shot. Instead of just putting a bunch of thick rough around the greens – U.S. Open-style – and forcing a chop out, he put shorter grass in some areas to give players the choice of chipping, lobbing or even putting a ball. Advertisement Ther course has plenty of variety but two of the standout holes are the par-4 ninth hole that features an Oakmont-style church-pew fairway bunker, and the Redan green on the par-3 third hole. If you haven't played the Cardinal, you'll get a chance to see it on television or in person when the LIV Golf tour shows up in late August. You might want to book a tee time well before that because it isn't often you get the chance to play a course you see tour stars playing on TV. Contact Carlos Monarrez: cmonarrez@ Follow him on Twitter @cmonarrez. Check out for the rest. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: The Cardinal is the Free Press' Top Public Golf Course in Wayne County
Hamilton Spectator
6 days ago
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
What's next for David Hearn?
David Hearn finds himself caught between a rock and hard place. At age 45, he's not quite old enough to seriously think about a second professional golf career on the PGA Champions Tour, where a birthday cake with 50 candles is required. But what he has right in front of him might be the dying embers of a solid PGA Tour career, where he is getting fewer and fewer opportunities to tee it up. 'It's very difficult for me at my age right now to compete on the PGA Tour the way I once did,' Hearn said last week before firing rounds of 75-82 at the North Course at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley, where he missed the cut in the RBC Canadian Open. 'What I'm good at in golf isn't being rewarded the way it once was 10 or 15 years ago. The speed game is dominating tour life these days and that's not what I was good at. I hit it far enough but I relied on a good short game and grinding it out.' Consequently, Hearn doesn't have full status on the PGA Tour anymore. He's categorized as a 'veteran member.' Which, in Hearn's case, means he made at least 150 cuts in his career. And veteran member status isn't what it used to be. 'When I got on tour in 2005, I played with guys who had achieved 150 cuts and at that point they were getting eight to 10 starts a year,' said Hearn, who played in the Canadian Open on a sponsor's exemption from Golf Canada and RBC. So far this year, he's had just one start as a veteran member and may only get a couple more. 'A category that at one time people aspired to doesn't really give you much access in today's game,' says Hearn. 'It's the growth of the tour and the money and the fact that more players are playing more often. Guys used to pick and choose their schedule a lot more and now, because the money has grown, guys don't take as many weeks off.' So, where does that leave Hearn? 'That's a very difficult question to answer because the last two years have been like this,' he said. 'I'll try and get through this summer and re-evaluate.' One good thing about not playing in many tournaments this summer is that Hearn has been able to spend more time with his family. 'My kids are 12, 10 and eight and they are all active in activities at school and it's been great to be around for a lot of that,' said Hearn, who lives in Delray Beach, Fla. during the golf season. The family returns to Brantford, where Hearn was raised, in the summer months. 'The Champions Tour is something I'm thinking about, absolutely, but it's a little too far away to pin down where my head will be at. My game needs to be competitive at that time and you really need to keep playing tournaments and events to keep competitive.' Another option is the lower-tier Korn Ferry Tour, which allows 48- and 49-year-olds to access events based on their career earnings. 'When I get to that age, I would absolutely take advantage of those spots if they are still there,' says Hearn, who has two runner-up finishes in his PGA Tour career and $11,049,672 in earnings. 'But there a lot of changes coming in the tour, and I don't know what impact that's going to have on the Korn Ferry Tour.' Hearn, who was born in Brampton, honed his golf game at Brantford Golf and Country Club — a course he still calls home. In fact, the club even put the long-term member to work this year, serving on one of its committees. Hearn will be remembered by most Canadian golf fans for his play in the 2015 Canadian Open at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, where he fired rounds of 69-64-68 and led the tournament heading into the final day. He had a workmanlike round of 72 on Sunday, but Australian Jason Day carded a 68 to win the title. Hearn finished third. The individual winners from the HWDSB middle school golf championship at Oak Gables are Kay Lynn Hoo of Sir William Osler (left) and Drew Douglas of R.A. Riddell. Whole-in-One: Drew Douglas fired an even par 33 on the Pine nine at Oak Gables to claim boy's medallist honours in the 19th Hamilton Middle School Golf Championship. The R.A. Riddell golfer also lead his team of Liam Hisey , Sammy Pridmore and Gordie Stevenson to the team championship. Kay Lynn Hoo of Sir William Osler captured the girls individual title with a 36. Hoo and Vida Wilson combined to win the girls team title for Osler … Sam Welch and Carson Bellchamber each fired 72s on the Martin Course at Chedoke to share medallist honours in the junior division at the Hamilton Halton Junior Golf Tour Qualifying tournament. Oliver Ion Young was the low bantam with a 77 and Aditi Namblar was the girls winner with an 85. The seven-event tour begins June 27 at 11 a.m. at Port Dover Golf Club … Aces in the area include Mike Kasoian on the 160-yard 12th hole at Burlington Springs with a mid hybrid.
Belfast Telegraph
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Eddie Hearn calls on Stormont to back ‘iconic' Lewis Crocker v Paddy Donovan rematch at Windsor Park
Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has asked the Stormont Executive to help create 'an iconic moment' in Northern Irish sporting history by supporting the bid to stage the rematch between Belfast's Lewis Crocker and Limerick's Paddy Donovan at Windsor Park. The Belfast Telegraph revealed yesterday that talks to host the bout at the famous Belfast football ground were at an advanced stage, with Sports Minister Gordon Lyons involved in discussions. Hearn has urged the Stormont Executive to provide support for the event, which is pencilled in for mid-September. 'I can tell you that Windsor Park is definitely not on at this moment, but there are conversations that are taking place,' Hearn said. 'My message to the Government is let's bring a sporting event to Belfast that has huge significance. 'Let's create an atmosphere and an occasion that everyone can get behind. Let's put on a card full of Irish talent. 'Because there is nothing like an outdoor event in boxing. If that fight gets made for the world welterweight title, it's an iconic moment for sport in Northern Ireland, and all of Ireland.' The Matchroom promoter, who represents both fighters, is also confident that the IBF welterweight world title will be on the line with reigning champion Jaron 'Boots' Ennis expected to vacate the belt and move up to super-welterweight. The addition of the world title will add extra heat to an already spicy event. At the SSE Arena in March, Sandy Row boxer Crocker was awarded the victory after Donovan was disqualified for throwing a punch after the bell. Hearn told IFL TV: 'If Boots moves up to 154lb which has definite potential to happen, then Lewis Crocker will fight Paddy Donovan for the world welterweight title in Ireland, which will be one of the biggest events the country has seen for a long time. 'The winner of that bout will put themselves in a position to fight the biggest names in the sport. We will have to see what happens, but I'd love to do it outdoors.' Crocker's manager Jamie Conlan also wants to see the fight staged at Windsor Park. He said: 'We are still working on Windsor. We are committed to try and bring a fight of this magnitude to Windsor Park. I believe that this is a bigger fight than the SSE Arena, especially if we get the world title over the line. This is a fight that should be on a bigger stage, and a bigger stage as in an outdoor arena or outdoor venue. 'We have two dates pencilled in with the SSE Arena. There was a fantastic atmosphere there in March. 'It was like a cauldron, like it always is there. No doubt it would be another fantastic night, but I just think the two best fighters in the country potentially fighting for a world title should be in a big outdoor arena. 'Windsor is a stone's throw from Lewis' house. It's where he's watched Linfield and where he's seen Northern Ireland play. To headline there, in front of a home crowd, in a fight of this magnitude would be a dream come true for him.' The head of Conlan Boxing believes the fight would be one of the biggest nights in Irish boxing history. He told Irish Boxing: 'If this is for a world title, it's the biggest all-Irish fight ever. We've had big domestic fights, but this is a legitimate world title on the line between two undefeated fighters at the peak of their powers.' In the first fight, billed as a final eliminator to face Ennis, Donovan was ahead on the scorecards when he was adjudged to have punched Crocker after the bell to end the eighth round. Donovan thought he was victorious but referee Marcus McDonnell disqualified him, declaring Crocker the winner, which led to chaotic scenes in the ring. Donovan's team successfully appealed the disqualification with the IBF ordering an immediate rematch, though Conlan had stated a rematch was always on the agenda at his fighter's request. March's fight was marred by a mass brawl in the stands at the SSE Arena. The Belfast Telegraph contacted the PSNI about the possibility of the rematch being staged at Windsor Park, but they did not want to comment before the event was confirmed.
