Eddie Hearn

"I'm not going to sit here and hang Conor Benn out to dry but me, personally, I'm pretty devastated."

"If he comes to me and says 'I want to do the fight in America for this reason', we'll all be very disappointed because I don't think there's a person on the planet that doesn't think this fight should take place in the UK."

"When you come off an incident like that and an accident like that, I guess people say, 'Will you ever be the same?'"

"It's done. We signed a legally binding contract about three months ago."

"We insisted that this fight was in the UK."

"In layman's terms, by staging the fight in America, Anthony Joshua receives less money than he would do if the fight was in the UK where he was contractually agreed."

"no-one can pull out of the fight."

"'We've signed the contract, we're waiting for a date.'"

"'We know everybody and his dog involved in the fight wants to do the fight in America. We don't.'"

"the whole story, you couldn't make it up."

"She's so fierce and the way she was talking, like the passion, the determination and she was telling me the story about the Olympics [pushing for women's boxing to be added to the programme for London 2012] and I was just like, 'this is unbelievable'."

"Now she's making more than 99% of male fighters out there."

"Boxing is a really toxic world."

""When it's all said and done you will look at your belts, you might look at your bank balance. But you will sit there, close your eyes and recall all those incredible moments in your life that made you cry.""

"Ireland's greatest sportsperson"

"Hearn acknowledged that virtually every other party involved preferred New York, with Matchroom even exploring what compensation would be required to waive the UK clause."

"Forever indebted to the UK public for their support of Anthony Joshua. We couldn't have got this over the line without you."

"AJ has turned down money to keep it in the UK."