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Barry Hearn
Barry Hearn was born 1949 in Dagenham Essex. He was educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School until 1966. Barry Hearn is an English sports entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of a promotions company called Matchroom Sport. Hearn is a qualified accountant who made his first fortune through buying and selling a chain of snooker halls. Hearn's promotional career began in 1974 working with little remembered players Geoff Foulds and Vic Harris. In 1976 he became the manager of six times world champion Steve Davis. Barry Hearn prospered from the snooker boom of the 1980s when he formed Matchroom with players Davis and Tony Meo. Later Matchroom snooker players include Willie Thorne, Terry Griffiths, Dennis Taylor, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Neal Foulds, Jimmy White, and Cliff Thorburn.
In 1987 Barry Hearn moved into boxing. He has since promoted leading Irish and British boxers such as Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank, Naseem Hamed, Lennox Lewis, Herbie Hide and Steve Collins.
In April 2008 Barry Hearn introduced the Prizefighter series which is a knock out tournament featuring 8 different boxers in a last man standing type competition. Matchroom is also involved in pool, tenpin bowling, golf, fishing, darts and of course poker.
The poker section of Matchroom sport includes interviews tip and news on all the greats. Although he hasn't had any massive poker tournament wins he has made a good presence at the tables cashing a total of $111,525.00 to date in small tourneys across the globe.
Barry Hearn organised a poker tournament in 2008 with a £1,000,000.00 first prize. Back then it was largest first place prize in poker tournament. The tournament was televised, it was the first Ladbrokes Poker Million.
As far as an overall player the Hendon Mob State:
"If you're gonna back him you may as well have a double up with Orient for the World Cup!"
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