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🥊Matchroom Boxing

United Kingdom · Brentwood, Essex

Major honours

90,000Joshua-Klitschko attendance, Wembley 2017
2018-DAZN deal
$365 millionCanelo contract value
2022, MSGFirst women's boxing main event landed

The boxing arm of Matchroom Sport, founded by Barry Hearn in 1982, and the promotion that changed the shape of British boxing when his son Eddie Hearn took it over in 2010. Built on a deal with Sky Sports, it made huge outdoor shows the norm, and the 2017 unification fight between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley drew 90,000 fans, the biggest postwar box office in British boxing. In 2018 Matchroom partnered with the streaming platform DAZN to enter the US market, and that same year its eleven-fight, $365 million deal with Canelo Alvarez was reported as the largest in sports history at the time. Matchroom also invested early in women's boxing, building Katie Taylor from amateur gold medalist into a Madison Square Garden main-event headliner.

Record comparison

Years active
43 years
World champions produced
Many, including Joshua and Taylor
Flagship fighter's top achievement
Joshua, unified heavyweight champion
Signature moment
2017 Wembley crowd of 90,000

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Club legends

Anthony JoshuaKatie TaylorCarl FramptonCanelo Alvarez

Rivalry

Within Britain, Matchroom collides head-on with Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions. With Matchroom on DAZN and Queensberry split between Sky and BT, the delayed Joshua-Tyson Fury matchup for years is the emblematic result of that rivalry.

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