Published on September 15th, 2022 | by Darren Paltrowitz

Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn On This Weekend’s GGG Fight, Future Plans As A Promoter, MMA, Las Vegas, Barry Hearn & More

As the head of Matchroom’s boxing division, Eddie Hearn promotes a full roster of talent he has carefully-developed over the years, including World Champions and Olympic gold medalists alike. Under Hearn’s leadership, Matchroom and the sport of boxing have both grown exponentially around the world, and in 2014 Hearn promoted the record-breaking Froch vs. Groves II fight at Wembley Stadium, as watched on-site by 80,000 at the sold-out venue beyond the millions who watched the broadcast around the world. In 2018, Hearn agreed to a historic $1 billion deal with the live streaming sports platform DAZN to stage 16 fights a year across America under the Matchroom Boxing USA banner. In turn, Hearn is not just following in the foosteps of his father — the original founder of Matchroom — Barry Hearn, but he has become one of the world’s leading boxing promoters.

This weekend, Canelo Alvarez will face off against Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin for the third and final time on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be broadcast live on TV Azteca in Mexico. The highly-anticipated fight will also be broadcast live on DAZN PPV in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, while broadcast around the world vuia DAZN, excluding Mexico, Latin America, and Kazakhstan. The event was produced in partnership between Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing, Canelo Promotions and GGG Promotions.

On September 14, 2022, I had the pleasure of speaking with Eddie Hearn via Zoom, as embedded below. More on Hearn and this weekend’s Alvarez/GGG fight can be found here, here and here.

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Tags: boxing, Canelo Alvarez, DAZN, Eddie Hearn, Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, GGG, Las Vegas, Matchroom Boxing

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Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal.Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."