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Eddie Hearn has called Billy Joe Saunders and Terry Flanagan two under-achieving boxers whose careers ‘haven’t been built along the way’. They have become world champions while in the stable of Hearn’s arch-rival, Frank Warren.

Warren responded to the jibe by saying that he signed Flanagan (right) because his career was going nowhere with Hearn, from whom Warren has also attracted Josh Warrington.

How much the ‘acrimony’ between David Haye and Tony Bellew is just hype to sell tickets and pay-per-view will only become apparent after Saturday’s fight. But some boxing insiders insist Haye and Bellew got on well before they began the trash talk.