About Matchroom Sport

Matchroom Sport is one of the leading world sports events organisations, creating and marketing an impressive portfolio of major televised sports event programmes.

For over a quarter of a century it has been creating, promoting, organising and televising major events worldwide under the charismatic leadership of Executive Chairman Barry Hearn. Hearn is a renowned showman and sports enthusiast with a legendary ability for creating exciting and highly visual events and has built an experienced team of production and sales staff.

Matchroom Sport has established a strong worldwide reputation among broadcasters, sports organisations and the viewing public for promoting successful events and edge of the seat action. The company leads the way in televised sports as varied as championship boxing, nine ball pool, big game and coarse fishing, snooker, golf, darts, poker, tenpin bowling. It produces and broadcasts all its events for televising both live and delayed across the world.

Creativity and Innovation

Matchroom's hallmark is creativity and innovation and this is reflected in all its core activities. Details of these can be found under the relevant sections here on the website. Matchroom:

• produces and covers a wide range of compelling events every year
• creates annually 600 hours plus of high octane sports action
• supplies programming to broadcasters and new media applications
• manages a catalogue of over 6,000 hours of compulsive viewing
• delivers up-to-the-minute content very fast worldwide
• offers all rights in all media for all territories
• showcases its coverage online

The last three decades have seen continued growth and progress in Matchroom's operations and the company remains ambitious - seeking to deploy the same level of creativity it brings to its distinctive events to the development of the company itself, particularly in the broadcast and new media areas.