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Matchroom Sport is a sporting event promotions company founded by English entrepreneur Barry Hearn and his son Eddie Hearn . It first came to attention in the sports of snooker and boxing and is also involved in pool , bowling , golf , fishing , darts , table tennis , poker and gymnastics . The company is based in Brentwood, Essex .[1] Matchroom has a comprehensive broadcasting agreement in the United Kingdom with Sky Sports .
Cue sports
Matchroom Sport entered snooker event management in the 1980s. They had players such as Steve Davis , Dennis Taylor , and Jimmy White under contract.
Matchroom expanded into other cue sports, organising a World Professional Pool Championship for nine-ball pool in Cardiff , Wales, in July 1999. The following year, that tournament merged with the annual WPA World Nine-ball Championship , the most prestigious professional tournament, under the auspices of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). Matchroom remains a principal sponsor and even organizer.
Matchroom's other prestigious pool event is the Mosconi Cup , held each December from 1994 onwards. The event is modelled on the Ryder Cup in golf, and pits a team of European players against a team from the United States. Since 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.
Matchroom sports also promote the World Cup of Pool , a national team scotch doubles event, and the World Pool Masters an annual nine-ball event.[2]
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 .
Boxing
Current stable
[3]
Boxer
Nationality
Weight
Signed
Title
Nikita Ababiy
American
Middleweight
17 July 2018
Murodjon Akhmadaliev
Uzbekistan
Bantamweight
25 April 2019
Dave Allen
English
Heavyweight
Demetrius Andrade
American
Middleweight
17 July 2018
WBO middleweight champion
Qais Ashfaq
English
Bantamweight
1 February 2018
Martin Bakole
Congolese
Heavyweight
10 July 2019
Jake Ball
English
Light-heavyweight
30 June 2015
Zelfa Barrett
English
Super-featherweight
March 2020
Commonwealth super-featherweight champion
Reece Bellotti
English
Featherweight
30 June 2015
Conor Benn
English
Welterweight
30 March 2016
Dmitry Bivol
Russian
Light-heavyweight
15 January 2019
WBA light-heavyweight champion
Arthur Biyarslanov
Canadian
Light-welterweight
29 March 2019
Cecilia Brækhus
Norwegian
Welterweight
22 October 2019
WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO & The Ring female welterweight champion
Kell Brook
English
Light-middleweight
8 April 2011
Joshua Buatsi
English
Light-heavyweight
5 June 2017
Ricky Burns
Scottish
Lightweight
11 March 2013
Paul Butler
English
Bantamweight
24 July 2017
Luke Campbell
English
Lightweight
23 April 2013
Scott Cardle
Scottish
Lightweight
30 January 2012
Jono Carroll
Irish
Super-featherweight
7 September 2018
Felix Cash
English
Middleweight
11 May 2016
Commonwealth middleweight champion
Ted Cheeseman
English
Light-middleweight
9 April 2015
British light-middleweight champion
Kieron Conway
English
Light-middleweight
12 July 2019
Joe Cordina
Welsh
Lightweight
1 February 2017
British and Commonwealth lightweight champion
Shannon Courtenay
English
Super-featherweight
Jamie Cox
English
Middleweight
22 April 2017
Tommy Coyle
English
Light-welterweight
27 November 2013
Anthony Crolla
English
Lightweight
17 September 2013
Robbie Davies Jr.
English
Light-welterweight
5 July 2018
John Docherty
Scottish
Super-middleweight
11 July 2018
T.J. Doheny
Irish
Super-bantamweight
7 January 2019
Charlie Edwards
English
Flyweight
3 December 2014
Sam Eggington
English
Light-middleweight
1 October 2014
Alexis Espino
American
Middleweight
28 October 2018
Juan Francisco Estrada
Mexican
Super-flyweight
28 June 2019
WBC & The Ring super-flyweight champion
Tevin Farmer
American
Super-featherweight
23 August 2018
Rocky Fielding
English
Super-middleweight
6 June 2012
Scott Fitzgerald
English
Light-middleweight
21 September 2015
British light-middleweight champion
Raymond Ford
American
Super-featherweight
Anthony Fowler
English
Light-middleweight
20 April 2017
Charles Frankham
English
Featherweight
14 January 2019
Hughie Fury
English
Heavyweight
26 July 2019
Kid Galahad
English
Featherweight
Murat Gassiev
Russian
Heavyweight
18 April 2019
Jordan Gill
English
Featherweight
29 October 2018
Shakhram Giyasov
Uzbekistan
Welterweight
25 April 2019
Devin Haney
American
Lightweight
25 April 2019
WBC lightweight champion
Terri Harper
English
Super-featherweight
24 September 2019
WBC , and IBO female super-featherweight champion
Maurice Hooker
American
Light-welterweight
17 July 2018
Filip Hrgović
Croatian
Heavyweight
14 February 2019
Daniel Jacobs
American
Middleweight
23 September 2017
Callum Johnson
Scottish
Light-heavyweight
30 June 2015
Natasha Jonas
English
Lightweight
20 June 2017
Otha Jones III
American
Welterweight
16 January 2019
Anthony Joshua
English
Heavyweight
24 July 2013
WBA (Super) , IBF , WBO , and IBO heavyweight champion
Josh Kelly
English
Welterweight
8 February 2017
Israil Madrimov
Uzbekistan
Light-middleweight
7 March 2019
Magomedrasul Majidov
Uzbekistan
Heavyweight
10 September 2019
Savannah Marshall
English
Super-middleweight
1 August 2019
Julio Cesar Martinez
Mexican
Flyweight
11 October 2019
WBC flyweight champion
Reshat Mati
American
Lightweight
17 July 2018
Gavin McDonnell
English
Super-bantamweight
Jamie McDonnell
English
Bantamweight
Sean McGoldrick
Welsh
Super-bantamweight
10 March 2017
Marcus Morrison
English
Light-middleweight
30 June 2015
Lawrence Okolie
English
Cruiserweight
18 January 2017
European cruiserweight champion
Diego Pacheco
American
Middleweight
5 October 2018
Joseph Parker
New Zealander
Heavyweight
31 May 2019
Hopey Price
English
Super-bantamweight
11 October 2018
Craig Richards
English
Light-heavyweight
Lewis Ritson
English
Light-welterweight
10 October 2017
Daniel Roman
American
Super-bantamweight
17 July 2018
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
Thai
Super-flyweight
30 January 2019
John Ryder
English
Super-middleweight
Billy Joe Saunders
English
Super-middleweight
13 August 2019
WBO super-middleweight champion
Amanda Serrano
Puerto Rican
Featherweight
28 October 2018
WBO and WBC interim female champion
Anthony Sims Jr.
American
Light-heavyweight
1 August 2018
Callum Smith
English
Super-middleweight
3 October 2012
WBA (Super) & The Ring super middleweight champion
Dalton Smith
English
Light-welterweight
21 March 2019
Liam Smith
English
Light-middleweight
9 January 2019
Stephen Smith
English
Super-featherweight
10 October 2013
Katie Taylor
Irish
Lightweight
27 October 2016
WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO & The Ring female lightweight champion
Oleksandr Usyk
Ukrainian
Heavyweight
7 September 2018
Jessie Vargas
American
Light-middleweight
17 July 2018
Josh Warrington
English
Featherweight
February 2020
IBF featherweight champion
Martin Joseph Ward
English
Super-featherweight
31 May 2012
Dillian Whyte
English
Heavyweight
20 May 2016
WBC interim heavyweight champion
Austin Williams
American
Middleweight
26 February 2019
Gamal Yafai
English
Super-bantamweight
Khalid Yafai
English
Super-flyweight
14 May 2012
WBA super-flyweight champion
Daniyar Yeleussinov
Kazakhstani
Welterweight
5 March 2018
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