Matchroom Sport


Matchroom Sport is a sporting event promotions company founded by English entrepreneur Barry Hearn and his son Eddie Hearn. It first came to attention in the sports of snooker and boxing and is also involved in pool, bowling, golf, fishing, darts, table tennis, poker and gymnastics. The company is based in Brentwood, Essex. Matchroom has a comprehensive broadcasting agreement in the United Kingdom with Sky Sports.

Cue sports

Matchroom Sport entered snooker event management in the 1980s. They had players such as Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor, and Jimmy White under contract.
Matchroom expanded into other cue sports, organising a World Professional Pool Championship for nine-ball pool in Cardiff, Wales, in July 1999. The following year, that tournament merged with the annual WPA World Nine-ball Championship, the most prestigious professional tournament, under the auspices of the World Pool-Billiard Association. Matchroom remains a principal sponsor and even organizer.
Matchroom's other prestigious pool event is the Mosconi Cup, held each December from 1994 onwards. The event is modelled on the Ryder Cup in golf, and pits a team of European players against a team from the United States. Since 2003, the event has alternated between European and American venues, having previous always been held in the UK.
The Mosconi Cup is notable for having evolved from an exhibition event in the early years, into a genuinely prestigious tournament. Early Mosconi Cup contests were characterised by a team of some of America's most charismatic players taking on a European team of mainly British snooker players, in an attempt to promote nine-ball in the UK. More recent instances of the event have been fought in a much more serious manner, although the raucous crowd atmosphere has been retained, making it unique among cue sports competitions.
Matchroom sports also promote the World Cup of Pool, a national team scotch doubles event, and the World Pool Masters an annual nine-ball event.

Ten-pin bowling

Matchroom has been involved in a revival of the sport of ten-pin bowling which has given the sport a renewed international pop-culture interest.
With a roster of the world's three major bowling events - the World Tenpin Masters, the Weber Cup and the AMF World Cup - Matchroom Sport has established a successful formula for presenting televised bowling. All three events are presented by broadcasters Nick Halling and Cass Edwards.

Boxing

Current stable

BoxerNationalityWeightSignedTitle
Nikita Ababiy AmericanMiddleweight17 07 2018
Murodjon Akhmadaliev UzbekistanBantamweight25 04 2019
Dave Allen EnglishHeavyweight
Demetrius Andrade AmericanMiddleweight17 07 2018WBO middleweight champion
Qais Ashfaq EnglishBantamweight01 02 2018
Martin Bakole CongoleseHeavyweight10 07 2019
Jake Ball EnglishLight-heavyweight30 06 2015
Zelfa Barrett EnglishSuper-featherweightMarch 2020Commonwealth super-featherweight champion
Reece Bellotti EnglishFeatherweight30 06 2015
Conor Benn EnglishWelterweight30 03 2016
Dmitry Bivol RussianLight-heavyweight15 01 2019WBA light-heavyweight champion
Arthur Biyarslanov CanadianLight-welterweight29 03 2019
Cecilia Brækhus NorwegianWelterweight22 October 2019WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO & The Ring female welterweight champion
Kell Brook EnglishLight-middleweight08 04 2011
Joshua Buatsi EnglishLight-heavyweight05 06 2017
Ricky Burns ScottishLightweight11 03 2013
Paul Butler EnglishBantamweight24 07 2017
Luke Campbell EnglishLightweight23 04 2013
Scott Cardle ScottishLightweight30 01 2012
Jono Carroll IrishSuper-featherweight07 09 2018
Felix Cash EnglishMiddleweight11 05 2016Commonwealth middleweight champion
Ted Cheeseman EnglishLight-middleweight09 04 2015British light-middleweight champion
Kieron Conway EnglishLight-middleweight12 07 2019
Joe Cordina WelshLightweight01 02 2017British and Commonwealth lightweight champion
Shannon Courtenay EnglishSuper-featherweight
Jamie Cox EnglishMiddleweight22 04 2017
Tommy Coyle EnglishLight-welterweight27 11 2013
Anthony Crolla EnglishLightweight17 09 2013
Robbie Davies Jr. EnglishLight-welterweight05 07 2018
John Docherty ScottishSuper-middleweight11 07 2018
T.J. Doheny IrishSuper-bantamweight07 01 2019
Charlie Edwards EnglishFlyweight03 12 2014
Sam Eggington EnglishLight-middleweight01 10 2014
Alexis Espino AmericanMiddleweight28 10 2018
Juan Francisco Estrada MexicanSuper-flyweight28 06 2019WBC & The Ring super-flyweight champion
Tevin Farmer AmericanSuper-featherweight23 08 2018
Rocky Fielding EnglishSuper-middleweight06 06 2012
Scott Fitzgerald EnglishLight-middleweight21 09 2015British light-middleweight champion
Raymond Ford AmericanSuper-featherweight
Anthony Fowler EnglishLight-middleweight20 04 2017
Charles Frankham EnglishFeatherweight14 01 2019
Hughie Fury EnglishHeavyweight26 07 2019
Kid Galahad EnglishFeatherweight
Murat Gassiev RussianHeavyweight18 04 2019
Jordan Gill EnglishFeatherweight29 10 2018
Shakhram Giyasov UzbekistanWelterweight25 04 2019
Devin Haney AmericanLightweight25 04 2019WBC lightweight champion
Terri Harper EnglishSuper-featherweight24 September 2019WBC, and IBO female super-featherweight champion
Maurice Hooker AmericanLight-welterweight17 07 2018
Filip Hrgović CroatianHeavyweight14 02 2019
Daniel Jacobs AmericanMiddleweight23 09 2017
Callum Johnson ScottishLight-heavyweight30 06 2015
Natasha Jonas EnglishLightweight20 06 2017
Otha Jones III AmericanWelterweight16 01 2019
Anthony Joshua EnglishHeavyweight24 07 2013WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champion
Josh Kelly EnglishWelterweight08 02 2017
Israil Madrimov UzbekistanLight-middleweight07 03 2019
Magomedrasul Majidov UzbekistanHeavyweight10 09 2019
Savannah Marshall EnglishSuper-middleweight01 08 2019
Julio Cesar Martinez MexicanFlyweight11 10 2019WBC flyweight champion
Reshat Mati AmericanLightweight17 07 2018
Gavin McDonnell EnglishSuper-bantamweight
Jamie McDonnell EnglishBantamweight
Sean McGoldrick WelshSuper-bantamweight10 03 2017
Marcus Morrison EnglishLight-middleweight30 06 2015
Lawrence Okolie EnglishCruiserweight18 01 2017European cruiserweight champion
Diego Pacheco AmericanMiddleweight05 10 2018
Joseph Parker New ZealanderHeavyweight31 05 2019
Hopey Price EnglishSuper-bantamweight11 October 2018
Craig Richards EnglishLight-heavyweight
Lewis Ritson EnglishLight-welterweight10 10 2017
Daniel Roman AmericanSuper-bantamweight17 07 2018
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai ThaiSuper-flyweight30 01 2019
John Ryder EnglishSuper-middleweight
Billy Joe Saunders EnglishSuper-middleweight13 08 2019WBO super-middleweight champion
Amanda Serrano Puerto RicanFeatherweight28 10 2018WBO and WBC interim female champion
Anthony Sims Jr. AmericanLight-heavyweight01 08 2018
Callum Smith EnglishSuper-middleweight03 10 2012WBA & The Ring super middleweight champion
Dalton Smith EnglishLight-welterweight21 03 2019
Liam Smith EnglishLight-middleweight09 01 2019
Stephen Smith EnglishSuper-featherweight10 10 2013
Katie Taylor IrishLightweight27 10 2016WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO & The Ring female lightweight champion
Oleksandr Usyk UkrainianHeavyweight07 09 2018
Jessie Vargas AmericanLight-middleweight17 07 2018
Josh Warrington EnglishFeatherweightFebruary 2020IBF featherweight champion
Martin Joseph Ward EnglishSuper-featherweight31 05 2012
Dillian Whyte EnglishHeavyweight20 05 2016WBC interim heavyweight champion
Austin Williams AmericanMiddleweight26 02 2019
Gamal Yafai EnglishSuper-bantamweight
Khalid Yafai EnglishSuper-flyweight14 05 2012WBA super-flyweight champion
Daniyar Yeleussinov KazakhstaniWelterweight05 03 2018