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.
If you liked the episode don’t forget to let us know in the comments and if you want to listen only you can catch Stick to Football on all major podcast platforms.
00:00: Intro
00:28: Behind The Scenes
01:36: Gary’s introduction
02:03: Life as a Boxing promoter
03:39: Eddie’s father Barry and his influence
04:40: Competing with YouTube fighters
07:16: On DAZN
09:25: Boxing as a business
12:02: Prospect of Anthony Joshua v Tyson Fury
15:50: Hearn on Katie Taylor’s trailblazing
21:05: How to protect professional boxers
25:06: Anthony Joshua’s defeat to Oleksandr Usyk
27:55: Promoting Derek Chisora v Dillian Whyte
32:43: Boxing in the community
38:44: Nearly signing Tyson Fury
43:25: Anthony Joshua’s career
46:31: Hearn’s biggest regret
50:30: Losing £1m on a fight
53:20: Eddie’s relationship with father Barry
55:30: Family life with daughters Isabella and Sophia
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Great program 💯
He dodged the question about a boxer's union 🥊
Just a thought. Stick to football. Fast forwarded most of this episode.
Really enjoyed this, Eddie is a great lad
Why is Rory saying Rooney could be 1 for best striker? He wasn’t a better STRIKER than those players above him.
Great interview
Anyone know what Ian’s shirt is?
best thing on youtube 👌👏
Please get John McAvoy on the Overlap. He’d be perfect for it!
Could listen to Eddie Hearn all day long, genuinely interesting and witty with it. Great episode
Great episode. Keep them coming please
That Del Boy story was hilarious 😂
I thought this was called Stick to Football? Title lasted about 3 episodes 😂
Eddie Hearn sure loves to hear his own voice. I think he talked over everyone at the table.
No thanks. Let’s stick to football.
Roy Keane💪🏿💯🇮🇪
Are there only going to be 4 episodes of this program then?
Roy Keane in a conversation about Jake Paul is not what I ever thought I'd hear
Thanks!
Eddie the Tw*t.
Whats barry chuckle Neville doing with a podcast, hasn't he enough on with scum utd
Love Eddie Hearn man. So entertaining.
eddie hearn reminds me of the thick kid at school but was a good blagger
Fantastic again eddy
Not a huge fan of Eddie some times but he's definitely took his dads business and turned it into a whole new stratosphere.
No way AJ beats Wilder. Unless Wilder is totally off it. AJ has a suspect chin, that's a fact and if Wilder hits him with that jackhammer it's game over.
Promotors don't want boxers to have that power that a Union would bring. Let's be honest, boxers are a commodity to promotors, however you want to gloss them up.
AJ should be next to fight Fury after Usyk. It's been a long time coming. Why is everyone pushing AJ to fight other people before Fury ?
Stop trying to get Fury off the hook. Because these fights should have been made long ago but Fury keeps avoiding fighters. Now he's pushed back the date to fight Usyk in February instead of December 23 like he boasted.
Great watch that!!
Money Money Money
@The Overlap What happen to Stick to Football? No more episodes?
Something ironic about the title..??
Need to get Simon Jordan on the show
Stick to football… is about boxing?
Eddie is a great story teller. 🎉
Good job he didn't 🤣🤣
Brilliant watch
The best show really love it already watching from east Africa Somalia Gary hearn keano wright
Greatings all of you
great guys need to see more of this