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.[1] 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 (WPA). 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.[2]

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

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Boxer Nationality Weight Signed Title
Nikita Ababiy American Middleweight 17 July 2018
Murodjon Akhmadaliev Uzbekistan Bantamweight 25 April 2019
Dave Allen English Heavyweight
Demetrius Andrade American Middleweight 17 July 2018 WBO middleweight champion
Qais Ashfaq English Bantamweight 1 February 2018
Martin Bakole Congolese Heavyweight 10 July 2019
Zelfa Barrett English Super-featherweight March 2020 Commonwealth super-featherweight champion
Reece Bellotti English Featherweight 30 June 2015
Conor Benn English Welterweight 30 March 2016
Chris Billam-Smith English Cruiserweight Commonwealth cruiserweight champion
Dmitry Bivol Russian Light-heavyweight 15 January 2019 WBA light-heavyweight champion
Arthur Biyarslanov Canadian Light-welterweight 29 March 2019
Cecilia Brækhus Norwegian Welterweight 22 October 2019
Kell Brook English Light-middleweight 8 April 2011
Joshua Buatsi English Light-heavyweight 5 June 2017
Ricky Burns Scottish Lightweight 11 March 2013
Chantelle Cameron English Light-welterweight WBC Light-Welterweight Champion
Luke Campbell English Lightweight 23 April 2013
Felix Cash English Middleweight 11 May 2016 Commonwealth middleweight champion
Marc Castro American Featherweight
Ted Cheeseman English Light-middleweight 9 April 2015 British light-middleweight champion
Souleymane Cissokho French Light-middleweight
Kieron Conway English Light-middleweight 12 July 2019
Joe Cordina Welsh Lightweight 1 February 2017 British and Commonwealth lightweight champion
Shannon Courtenay English Super-featherweight
Jamie Cox English Middleweight 22 April 2017
John Docherty Scottish Super-middleweight 11 July 2018
Sam Eggington English Light-middleweight 1 October 2014
Alexis Espino American Middleweight 28 October 2018
Juan Francisco Estrada Mexican Super-flyweight 28 June 2019 WBC & The Ring super-flyweight champion
Tevin Farmer American Super-featherweight 23 August 2018
Ukashir Farooq English Bantamweight
Aqib Fiaz English Lightweight
Rocky Fielding English Super-middleweight 6 June 2012
Scott Fitzgerald English Light-middleweight 21 September 2015 British light-middleweight champion
Raymond Ford American Super-featherweight
Anthony Fowler English Light-middleweight 20 April 2017
Charles Frankham English Featherweight 14 January 2019
Hughie Fury English Heavyweight 26 July 2019
Kid Galahad English Featherweight
Jordan Gill English Featherweight 29 October 2018
Shakhram Giyasov Uzbekistan Welterweight 25 April 2019
Devin Haney American Lightweight 25 April 2019 WBC lightweight champion
Terri Harper English Super-featherweight 24 September 2019 WBC, and IBO female super-featherweight champion
John Hedges English Super-Middleweight
Filip Hrgović Croatian Heavyweight 14 February 2019
Daniel Jacobs American Middleweight 23 September 2017
Callum Johnson Scottish Light-heavyweight 30 June 2015
Natasha Jonas English Lightweight 20 June 2017
Otha Jones III American Welterweight 16 January 2019
Anthony Joshua English Heavyweight 24 July 2013 WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champion
Josh Kelly English Welterweight 8 February 2017
Israil Madrimov Uzbekistan Light-middleweight 7 March 2019
Magomedrasul Majidov Uzbekistan Heavyweight 10 September 2019
Savannah Marshall English Super-middleweight 1 August 2019
Julio Cesar Martinez Mexican Flyweight 11 October 2019 WBC flyweight champion
Reshat Mati American Lightweight 17 July 2018
Lawrence Okolie English Cruiserweight 18 January 2017 European cruiserweight champion
Diego Pacheco American Middleweight 5 October 2018
Joseph Parker New Zealander Heavyweight 31 May 2019
Hopey Price English Super-bantamweight 11 October 2018
Craig Richards English Light-heavyweight
Lewis Ritson English Light-welterweight 10 October 2017
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai Thai Super-flyweight 30 January 2019
John Ryder English Super-middleweight
Billy Joe Saunders English Super-middleweight 13 August 2019 WBO super-middleweight champion
Ellie Scotney English Featherweight
Lee Selby Welsh Lightweight
Amanda Serrano Puerto Rican Featherweight 28 October 2018 WBO and WBC interim female champion
Anthony Sims Jr. American Light-heavyweight 1 August 2018
Callum Smith English Super-middleweight 3 October 2012 WBA (Super) & The Ring super middleweight champion
Dalton Smith English Light-welterweight 21 March 2019
Liam Smith English Light-middleweight 9 January 2019
Katie Taylor Irish Lightweight 27 October 2016 WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO & The Ring female lightweight champion
James Tennyson Northern Irish Lightweight
Oleksandr Usyk Ukrainian Heavyweight 7 September 2018
Jessie Vargas American Light-middleweight 17 July 2018
Josh Warrington English Featherweight February 2020 IBF featherweight champion
Martin Joseph Ward English Super-featherweight 31 May 2012
Fabio Wardley English Heavyweight
Dillian Whyte English Heavyweight 20 May 2016
Thomas Whittaker Hart English Light-Heavyweight
Austin Williams American Middleweight 26 February 2019
Gamal Yafai English Super-bantamweight
Khalid Yafai English Super-flyweight 14 May 2012 WBA super-flyweight champion
Daniyar Yeleussinov Kazakhstani Welterweight 5 March 2018
Zhang Zhilei Chinese Heavyweight

References

  1. "Companies beginning with 'ma'". CheckSure.biz. Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: ROIsure Digital. 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
  2. "World Pool Masters Archives - Matchroom Pool". Matchroom Pool. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  3. "Boxers Archive - Matchroom Boxing". Matchroom Boxing.
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