Season 3: #18 Barry Hearn

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Promoter Barry Hearn is now an OBE. He's also in the International Boxing Hall of Fame and has been involved with the sport since the 1980s. The patriarch of Matchroom, he's been a dominant figure in darts, snooker and fishing, among other sports. In boxing, however, the father of promoter Eddie, has worked with the likes of Chris Eubank, Frank Bruno, Naseem Hamed and many, many others. Here he recounts some of the highs and some of the lows from his long, rewarding and successful career to Boxing Life Stories host Tris Dixon. Boxing Life Stories is now on PATREON. You can get access to research, unseen photographs from Boxing Life Stories, go behind the scenes of the podcast with Tris Dixon and even get some episodes early. You can help support us through another 100 episodes and help us to grow by visiting www.patreon.com/trisdixon Boxing Life Stories is bought to you by HANSON LEE RESOURCING who were voted “The UK's Best Specialist Insurance-Sector Recruitment Firm for 2020” in the Corporate Excellence Awards. ‘Not only do we find the best people, we’ll help you retain them.' Discover more at HansonLee.com’ AND DELCO SAFETY COMPLIANCE, who are a leading provider of professional fire, asbestos, and safety services to businesses nationwide. They offer one expert point of contact for all of your fire, health and safety compliance needs. Find out more at www.delcosafety.co.uk Follow Tris on twitter @trisdixon and instagram @trisdixon @boxing_life_stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
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0:20.0	I could do better than this. I mean I must be able to do better than this and Terry Lour
0:25.4	strung me out and said like I think they had some problems within the cartel and
0:29.3	whether they were trying to I think they were smart enough to try and get me to work for them.
0:35.2	That's what they were looking at. I was doing all the snooker so I had a good bit of prominence at the time.
0:40.8	And Terry said, you like boxing, why don't you promote some boxing shows?
0:45.6	Oh, well, yeah, well.
0:47.8	Now I think they were probably thinking, get rid of Mike Barrett. There's a young kid on the block all work for us, but I don't work for people,
0:57.0	it's not my nature.
1:00.0	Have you got a U-Bank impression?
1:02.0	No, I don't do your bank impressions.
1:04.0	I think it's disrespectful.
1:05.0	Do you actually, when Eddie reels them off, do you fit that?
1:07.0	I think it's hilarious.
1:09.0	If it is disrespectful.
1:12.0	But, I sit down quietly on my own where there's no bullshit. I realize that I'm only there
1:19.0	because of the sports I've been involved in and the people I've been involved in that sport. So I'm grateful to a lot of people
1:25.3	for giving me the chance to Her Buckingham Palace because it's the day I shall I never forget.
1:30.9	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
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