Barry Hearn

Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point

BBC

Sports, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

One of the world’s best-known sports promoters Eddie Hearn chats to some of the biggest names in sport, entertainment and business, including Rio Ferdinand, Canelo Alvarez and Amelia Dimoldenberg. He’ll learn about their passions, what gets them up in the morning, and how they built their successful careers. This week, Eddie’s first in-person interview since series one is with his dad, Barry Hearn. Barry has been chairman of Matchroom Sports since its foundation, and has recently announced his retirement, with Eddie taking the reins. They talk about how Barry turned a small chain of snooker halls into a sporting empire, how his passion has kept him working up to the age of 73, and how he will spend his retirement. No Passion, No Point is produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies, and is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 5 Live. Listen now on BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	For all things football,
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0:25.0	listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hi my name's Eddie Hearn and this is no passion no point.
0:45.0	So as our global expansion at Matrim continues we've been all over place. I mean I feel like I've been sort of
0:54.8	escaping to country to country that's open and there's fans and we can go here we can go there.
0:59.4	I mean recently we're in Gibraltar for the brilliant
1:03.2	Dylan White Alexander Pervetkin card we were allowed 550 people and everybody
1:08.7	that was in there had to be vaccinated really unique and what an atmosphere it was just to see 500 people
1:14.8	there in there having a beer enjoying themselves felt like about 20,000. After Gibraltar
1:19.4	we even went to Uzbekistan we had 11,000 in there mad we're in Milan coming up
1:24.1	we're in Miami we've been in New Zealand we're all over the place to be honest with you
1:28.4	we're I feel like as I said we're on the run just going to places that are open for business and we've been
1:33.9	working really really hard during the period and hopefully the same way those
1:39.1	countries and spots are opening up we can do the same over here. Well we're here at the Metrum HQ, remarkably after all the great huge name guests we've had on no passion, no point.
2:06.8	I'm now sitting down with my old man.
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