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ESPN Ringsideįollow us on Instagram and Twitter to stay up to date with all of our latest boxing news. "It's cleaned after each session of someone using it and they have to book a slot. We have got a gym and ring there at the hotel too," Smith said. "We have got a structure at the hotel down the road where the boxers can train. "It's a sizeable investment, but it's what is needed to keep it going," Smith added.Īll the boxers and their teams will stay at a nearby hotel (up to 120 rooms at one time), where there will be a purpose-built gym. Smith reckons production will cost £1m over the four events, and no promoter without a television contract can think of doing something like this. If there is poor weather it will make it challenging for organizers on the night, and it's not been cheap. Picture By Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Fight Camp We're on top of a hill so it's a good vantage point, but we are open to the wind and the elements." Work gets underway at Matchroom headquarters for the event in August.

You can see Canary Wharf one way, and the other way where we are filming towards is the house. We are putting together big light shows to make it look as good as possible and rather than in a studio where you are restricted by what you can do there.

so the fireworks are really for the main event. "We have quite a bit of land around the offices to put on a spectacular evening. When they are done, the venue will be sealed off. They will be temporary structures and the building started on July 24. We have had to produce facilities where all the lighting and pyrotechnics guys will be.

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The TV production area and changing rooms have been built outside in the garden. "The house is out of use during the period of the show, everything we need for the show is being built. "It's actually been a bit easier than going to a venue because we can create exactly what we want on our own doorstep, we don't have to fit to a pre-existing building and we can make it how the British Boxing Board of Control want. "It's been fun doing something different," Smith told ESPN. I'm a real non-believer in studio boxing, I don't think it works and I hope we can bring a different spectacle."įrank Smith, CEO of Matchroom Boxing, said that despite all the new COVID-19 regulations, he has found the garden easier than other venues the company has worked with in the UK, which have included Wembley Stadium and the O2 Arena in London, and Cardiff's Principality Stadium. The whole idea of what I'm trying to deliver is get people excited about the surroundings, environment, and get them intrigued to tune in. "We will see what we can deliver for Fight Camp. Eddie Hearn is getting ready to host his event in the back garden of the house where he was raised. 15 when the main event will be undisputed champion Cecilia Braekhus against Jessica McCaskill. "I'm just not mad on the studio stuff I was very concerned about the ratings," said Hearn, whose company is also due to stage an outdoor event in the financial district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Aug. 1 is headlined by the super welterweight 12-rounder between Sam Eggington and Ted Cheeseman and the promoter hopes it will be "a spectacle" different from previous live boxing events staged in television studios in the U.S. Hearn's first event at the temporary, purpose-built venue on Aug. On the same night, there is an excellent rematch between women's undisputed world lightweight champion Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon. 22, heavyweights Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin meet in a clash that will decide who goes on to face either Tyson Fury - the WBC champion - or Deontay Wilder early in 2021. It's not Madison Square Garden, the iconic New York fight venue, but Hearn's own garden venue will host some big fights in August. Since July 24, it has been turned into a temporary COVID-19-secure sports venue. It was also the back garden of the house where Hearn grew up before it was made Matchroom's headquarters. When thinking about where to host four five-bout events without crowds called "Fight Camp," Hearn looked no further than the garden of the Matchroom headquarters in Brentwood, Essex.