Matchroom Sport

Matchroom Sport is a sport event promotions company led by the founder and owner English entrepreneur Barry Hearn and his son Eddie. It first came to attention in the sports of snooker and boxing and is also involved in pool, bowling, golf (see PGA EuroPro Tour), fishing, darts, ping pong, and poker and as of late 2016 gymnastics. The company is based in Brentwood, Essex.[1] Matchroom has a comprehensive broadcasting agreement in the United Kingdom with Sky Sports.

Recently, it also began sponsoring the football ground of English League Two team Leyton Orient. Previously called Brisbane Road, it has now been renamed the Matchroom Stadium. Barry Hearn used to be Orient's Chairman.

Cue sports

Matchroom Sport entered snooker event management in the 1980s. They had players such as Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor and Jimmy White on their books.

Matchroom Sport is currently the official sponsor of the annual WPA World Nine-ball Championship, the most prestigious professional tournament of its field. After having organised a similar but competing event for one year, the World Professional Pool Championship in Cardiff, Wales, in July 1999, Matchroom merged its tournament with that of the World Pool-Billiard Association in 2000, and the joint event took the promotional name "World Pool Championship" (an ambiguous name, since there is also a yearly WPA World Eight-ball Championship held in the United Arab Emirates). The event stayed in Cardiff until 2003, with the 2004 and 2005 events taking place in Taiwan. The 2006 event was held in the Philippines. Despite the moves, the competition has remained very similar in format and staging throughout.

Matchroom's other prestigious pool event is the Mosconi Cup, held each December from 1994 onwards. The event is modelled on the Ryder Cup, and it pits a team of European players against a team from the US. From 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.

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.

Matchroom Sport offers free tickets to the World Tenpin Masters. They are also distributed by the British Tenpin Bowling Association for free.

Boxing

Current stable[2]

BoxerNationalityWeightSignedTitle
Nikita AbabiyUnited States AmericanMiddleweight2018-07-17
Demetrius AndradeUnited States AmericanMiddleweight2018-07-17
Qais AshfaqEngland EnglishBantamweight2018-02-01
Jake BallEngland EnglishLight heavyweight2015-06-30
Tony BellewEngland EnglishCruiserweight
Reece BellottiEngland EnglishFeatherweight2015-06-30
Conor BennEngland EnglishWelterweight2016-03-30
Artur BeterbievRussia RussianLight heavyweight2018-07-17IBF Light heavyweight champion
Kell BrookEngland EnglishLight middleweight2011-04-08
Joshua BuatsiEngland EnglishLight heavyweight2017-06-05
Frank BuglioniEngland EnglishLight heavyweight2017-02-21
Ricky BurnsScotland ScottishLightweight2013-03-11
Ryan BurnettNorthern Ireland Northern IrishBantamweight2015-10-24WBA (Super) Bantamweight champion
Hosea BurtonEngland EnglishLight heavyweight
Paul ButlerEngland EnglishBantamweight2017-07-24
Luke CampbellEngland EnglishLightweight2013-04-23
Scott CardleScotland ScottishLightweight2012-01-30
Jono CarrollRepublic of Ireland IrishSuper featherweight2018-09-07
Felix CashEngland EnglishMiddleweight2016-05-11
Isaac ChamberlainEngland EnglishCruiserweight
Ted CheesemanEngland EnglishLight middleweight2015-04-09
Dereck ChisoraEngland EnglishHeavyweight2017-09-20
Joe CordinaWales WelshLightweight2017-02-01
Jamie CoxEngland EnglishMiddleweight2017-04-22
Tommy CoyleEngland EnglishLightweight2013-11-27Commonwealth Lightweight champion
Anthony CrollaEngland EnglishLightweight2013-09-17
Robbie Davies JrEngland EnglishLight welterweight2018-07-05British Light welterweight champion
Danny DignumEngland EnglishSuper middleweight
John DochertyScotland ScottishSuper middleweight2018-07-11
Charlie EdwardsEngland EnglishSuper flyweight2014-12-03
Sam EggingtonEngland EnglishLight middleweight2014-10-01
Tevin FarmerUnited States AmericanSuper featherweight2018-08-23IBF Super featherweight champion
Rocky FieldingEngland EnglishSuper middleweight2012-06-06WBA (Regular) Super middleweight champion
Scott FitzgeraldEngland EnglishLight middleweight2015-09-21
Anthony FowlerEngland EnglishLight middleweight2017-04-20
Daniel JacobsUnited States AmericanMiddleweight2017-09-23
Callum JohnsonScotland ScottishLight heavyweight2015-06-30British Light heavyweight champion
Natasha JonasEngland EnglishLightweight2017-06-20
Anthony JoshuaEngland EnglishHeavyweight2013-07-24IBF, WBA & WBO Heavyweight champion
Maurice HookerUnited States AmericanLight welterweight2018-07-17WBO Light welterweight champion
Josh KellyEngland EnglishWelterweight2017-02-08Commonwealth Welterweight champion
Amir KhanEngland EnglishWelterweight2018-01-10
Reshat MatiUnited States AmericanLightweight2018-07-17
Gavin McDonnellEngland EnglishSuper bantamweight
Jamie McDonnellEngland EnglishBantamweight
Sean McGoldrickWales WelshSuper bantamweight2017-03-10
Jarrell MillerUnited States AmericanHeavyweight2018-07-17
Marcus MorrisonEngland EnglishLight middleweight2015-06-30
Diego PachecoUnited States AmericanMiddleweight2018-10-05
Lawrence OkolieEngland EnglishCruiserweight2017-01-18British Cruiserweight champion
Scott QuiggEngland EnglishFeatherweight2013-06-12
Craig RichardsEngland EnglishSuper middleweight
Lewis RitsonEngland EnglishLightweight2017-10-10British Lightweight champion
Daniel RomanUnited States AmericanSuper bantamweight2018-07-17WBA Super bantamweight champion
John RyderEngland EnglishSuper middleweight
Anthony Sims Jr.United States AmericanLight heavyweight2018-08-01
Callum SmithEngland EnglishSuper middleweight2012-10-03WBA (Super) Super middleweight champion
Stephen SmithEngland EnglishSuper featherweight2013-10-10
Nkosi SolomonUnited States AmericanHeavyweight2018-07-17
Katie TaylorRepublic of Ireland IrishLightweight2016-10-27WBA & IBF Lightweight champion
Oleksandr UsykUkraine UkrainianCruiserweight2018-09-07Undisputed Cruiserweight champion
Jessie VargasUnited States AmericanWelterweight2018-07-17
Martin Joseph WardEngland EnglishSuper featherweight2012-05-31
Dillian WhyteEngland EnglishHeavyweight2016-05-20
Gamal YafaiEngland EnglishSuper bantamweight
Khalid YafaiEngland EnglishSuper flyweight2012-05-14WBA Super flyweight champion
Daniyar YeleussinovKazakhstan KazakhstaniWelterweight2018-03-05

References

  1. ↑ "Companies beginning with 'ma'". CheckSure.biz. Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: ROIsure Digital. 2009. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Boxers Archive - Matchroom Boxing". Matchroom Boxing.
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