Saudi Arabia feels as apt a place as any to be sitting down with Eddie Hearn. The kingdom’s insatiable appetite for using sport as soft power mirrors his own ravenous quest to become the dominant boxing promoter of his age. He practically commutes here, flitting between tête-à-têtes with local royalty and drinks receptions on the lawns of the British Embassy. It is quite the red-carpet ride for a man who, as the only son of Barry Hearn, the impresario behind the successes of everybody from Steve
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