1. Edward John Hearn was born on 8 June 1979 and is a British sports promoter and the chairman of Matchroom Sport and Professional Darts Corporation.
19 Facts About Eddie Hearn
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Eddie Hearn has promoted many world champion boxers through Matchroom, including Anthony Joshua, Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin, Vasyl Lomachenko, Katie Taylor and many others.
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Eddie Hearn is the son of promoter Barry Hearn, the founder of Matchroom Sport.
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Eddie Hearn was a student at the private Brentwood School, Essex.
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Eddie Hearn failed to get into sixth form at Brentwood School as he performed poorly on his GCSEs.
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Eddie Hearn played cricket and football to a high standard, and his father Barry petitioned the school to let him stay on for his sporting record, but the school refused.
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In 2010, Eddie Hearn met boxer Audley Harrison at a poker game and agreed to help him rebuild his career, subsequently getting Harrison a fight with heavyweight champion David Haye for his WBA title, which began his career and establishment of Matchroom Boxing.
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In 2013, Eddie Hearn signed a promotional agreement with Anthony Joshua, one year after his gold medal win at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Eddie Hearn has promoted all of Joshua's fights since, including multiple world champion fights.
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In 2014, Eddie Hearn promoted Carl Froch vs George Groves II in 2014 at Wembley Stadium with 80,000 fans in attendance.
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In 2015, Eddie Hearn signed an exclusive televised boxing deal with UK broadcaster Sky Sports to broadcast up to 20 shows a year.
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In 2017, Eddie Hearn promoted Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko which took place at Wembley Stadium with 90,000 fans in attendance.
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In May 2018, Eddie Hearn revealed boxing's first-ever $1 billion boxing deal as Matchroom and streaming service DAZN signed an agreement to stream shows across the United States.
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In 2019, Eddie Hearn agreed a deal to promote a professional boxing match between YouTube personalities KSI and Logan Paul, which took place on 9 November 2019 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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In 2019, Eddie Hearn launched a BBC Radio 5 Live podcast called 'No Passion, No Point' interviewing a number of sports professionals including Andrew Flintoff, Wayne Rooney and Tyson Fury.
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Later that same month, Eddie Hearn became involved in a war of words with rival promoters Bob Arum of Top Rank, and Frank Warren of Queensberry Promotions, over the failure of a deal coming to fruition for a proposed Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua fight, accusing them of making "absolutely zero attempt to try and save the Anthony Joshua fight".
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On 3 June 2021, Eddie Hearn announced that he had signed a five-year deal that meant he would be taking his entire stable of Matchroom fighters to streaming service DAZN, which ended Matchroom's previous partnership with Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland.
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In 2024, Eddie Hearn participated in the Queensberry vs Matchroom 5v5 event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a distinctive boxing competition against fellow promoter Frank Warren.
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Eddie Hearn generally has a good relationship with his fighters, and is good friends with former WBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew whose career he helped turn around.