Stick To Football: Eddie Hearn

On our latest episode of Stick to Football, brought to you by Sky Bet, we are joined by one of the world’s leading sports promoters Eddie Hearn.

Chairman of Matchroom Sport, a sporting promotion company founded by his father Barry, Eddie has a renowned status around the globe having played a major role behind some of boxing’s biggest success stories.

Listen to incredible anecdotes from past promotions, what boxing is like as a business and how Eddie wants to see boxing develop and grow into the community.

Eddie also chats about how he nearly signed Tyson Fury, a prospected fight between Fury and his star-fighter Anthony Joshua and why Katie Taylor completely changed his outlook on women’s boxing.

Eddie delves into the recent rise of YouTube boxing and what it means to the professional world and ends on how his family continues to play a major role in his career.