The Essex promoter's male-dominated events have been the mainstay of British boxing for the last decade, but he now has a talented crop of female world champions.
Eddie Hearn is a boxing promoter for Matchroom Boxing and is exclusive to delivering fights on DAZN.
He is seen as one of the leading promoters in world boxing and in 2018, he signed a £750million, eight-year deal with American streaming service DAZN.
In doing so, he secured the most lucrative promoting deal in boxing history.
Growing up, Hearn was surrounded by boxing royalty in Frank Bruno, Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn because of his father, Barry Hearn, who was the founder of Matchroom Sport in the 1980s.
Despite producing poor GCSE results, Hearn achieved an A and two Cs in media studies, physical education and business studies. Through studying the latter, he left his telesales job to become a representative for golfers and other sports stars, including Sir Ian Botham.
Not one to miss a trick, Barry hired his son to work for Matchroom Golf before venturing into promoting online poker for various broadcasters in the UK.
Moving up the ladder in the Matchroom empire, Hearn started to gain recognition in boxing after fronting the hugely popular Prizefighter tournament - a three-minute, three round format with the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final taking place on the same night.
Things went from strength-to-strength with Hearn securing a long-term contract with Sky Sports after the TV channel dropped Ricky Hatton, Frank Warren and Frank Maloney, now Kelly, as promoters.
Through working in the poker industry, Hearn met Audley Harrison at a tournament and through that, he spearheaded Harrison’s revival into boxing - firstly with victory in the Prizefighter followed by a world title shot against David Haye on Sky Sports Box Office.
In the UK scene, Hearn has produced elite fighters such as Anthony Joshua and Katie Taylor.
The UK promoter is also the face of steaming service DAZN in North America. He works with some of boxing's biggest names, including Gennadiy Golovkin, Mikey Garcia and Oleksandr Usyk.
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