Eddie Hearn Net Worth

What is Eddie Hearn's Net Worth?

Eddie Hearn is a British boxing promoter who has a net worth of $50 million. Eddie Hearn chairs the promotion company Matchroom Sport. The son of sports promoter and Matchroom Sport founder Barry, he has promoted such world champion boxers as Canelo Álvarez, Anthony Joshua, Katie Taylor, and Gennady Golovkin. Hearn also chairs the Professional Darts Corporation, and has a podcast on BBC Radio 5 Live called "No Passion, No Point."

Early Life and Education

Eddie Hearn was born on June 8, 1979, in Essex, England. His father, Barry, is a sports promoter who founded the promotion company Matchroom Sport. As a youth, Hearn attended Brentwood School, although he failed to get into sixth form due to poor GCSE results. Because he excelled in sports, especially cricket and football, his father petitioned to get him to stay at the school, but the school refused. Hearn subsequently went to Havering College of Further and Higher Education.

Boxing Promotion

Following a job representing golfers at a sports management company, Hearn joined his father's sports promotion company Matchroom Sport. He promoted online poker at first before moving on to his specialty, boxing. The first major boxer Hearn promoted was Audley Harrison, whom he met at a poker game in 2010. Helping to rebuild the boxer's career, Hearn got Harrison a fight with heavyweight champion David Haye. In 2013, Hearn began promoting Anthony Joshua, who had just won a gold medal at the previous year's Olympics in London. He continued promoting him in all of his fights after that, including multiple world champion fights. In 2015, Hearn signed an exclusive six-year deal with UK broadcaster Sky Sports to broadcast up to 20 fights a year. A few years later, he made a $1 billion deal with the streaming service DAZN to stream fights across the United States. As Hearn's profile grew, he also drew criticism for pandering to the masses, such as when he promoted a professional boxing match in 2019 between YouTube personalities KSI and Logan Paul. The same year, he received pushback for staging a fight between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia, with many decrying the choice of location due to Saudi Arabia's human rights violations.

In the spring of 2021, Hearn became chairman of Matchroom Sport after his father stepped down from the position. Shortly after that, he promoted the historic match between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which broke the all-time attendance record for an indoor boxing event in the United States, with over 73,000 spectators. Hearn and Matchroom subsequently made a deal to promote Álvarez's next two fights. In June of 2021, Hearn made a deal to have all Matchroom events streamed exclusively on DAZN. The next year, he made news when he co-promoted the fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano at New York City's Madison Square Garden, the first women's fight ever to headline that venue. Later, in 2024, Hearn participated in a unique competition in Saudi Arabia in which he and his opponent, fellow promoter Frank Warren, each selected five fighters to go up against each other across 10 matches. Ultimately, Hearn's team lost all of its matches to Warren's team. The year after that event, Hearn promoted Conor Benn in his match against IBO middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. in London. Eubank Jr. ultimately won by unanimous decision.

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Professional Darts Corporation

Beyond Matchroom Sport and his career as a boxing promoter, Hearn serves as chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation. The PDC runs a number of competitions, including the World Matchplay, the Grand Slam of Darts, and the PDC World Darts Championship. For his work as chairman, Hearn was inducted into the PDC Hall of Fame in 2021.

Podcast

In 2019, Hearn started his podcast "No Passion, No Point" on BBC Radio 5 Live. On the pod, he has interviewed such professional athletes as boxer Tyson Fury, footballer Wayne Rooney, and cricketer Andrew Flintoff.

Personal Life

With his wife Chloe, Hearn has two daughters named Sophia and Isabella. The family resides near Billericay in Essex.

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