Eddie Hearn Net Worth 2026: Matchroom Profits, the DAZN Deal and the Bruin Stake

The Sunday Times Rich List is the closest thing to an audited estimate of British wealth, and the Hearns have been climbing it. In May 2024, City AM reported the family at number 185 on the list with a valuation of £900 million, tied to the Middle East deals and the long-running family businesses. In May 2026, the Express & Star reported Barry and Eddie Hearn on the list's richest sportspeople table with a combined £1.035 billion, behind only the Ecclestone family and David Beckham, who became Britain's first billionaire sportsman in the same list.

That is a family figure. The Rich List does not separate Barry from Eddie, and neither has published the shareholding. Eddie became chairman of Matchroom Sport in April 2021 when Barry stepped aside into a president role, but a title change is not the same as a transfer of equity. Any individual number for Eddie starts from that uncertainty.

Matchroom Holdings files consolidated accounts in the UK, and RTE has reported them each year. For the 12 months to the end of June 2025, turnover was £225.4 million, up 3 percent from £218.26 million. Pre-tax profit rose 10 percent to £37.59 million. After a £13.25 million corporation tax charge, post-tax profit was £24.3 million. Dividends paid in the year were £33.45 million, up from £24.78 million the year before.

The segment split is the interesting part. Boxing made £9.88 million, down from £11.4 million. Darts made £16.16 million, up from £13.24 million. World Snooker Limited contributed £1.3 million and Matchroom Multi Sport £2.45 million. In other words, the sport Eddie Hearn is famous for is no longer the group's biggest profit line. Darts is.

Two years earlier the numbers were larger. The accounts to June 2023, reported by RTE in March 2024, showed group revenue of £280.7 million and pre-tax profit of £42.98 million, with £29.33 million in dividends and 112 staff. SportBusiness reported revenues of £213.7 million and group profit of £33.5 million for 2021-22. The business is consistently profitable at a £30 million to £45 million pre-tax level, which is the foundation under every valuation.

On May 11, 2026, Matchroom announced that Bruin Capital, the American sports investment firm run by George Pyne, had bought a minority stake. Sportcal and BoxingInsider both reported the stake at 15 percent and the valuation at above £1 billion, roughly $1.4 billion. Official terms were not disclosed. The Hearn family keeps majority ownership and operational control, Eddie stays group chairman, Barry stays founder and president, and Bruin takes a board seat to help with US growth.

The deal had been years in the making. In 2022 Matchroom explored a minority sale, and talks with CVC collapsed in May 2023. SportBusiness reported, citing Sky News, that Matchroom wanted £800 million and CVC's offer was about £100 million short. Eddie's own framing at the time: Matchroom is "a billion-pound company at the moment," and "ultimately, we will float this business."

Three years later he got his billion. At that valuation, a 15 percent stake is worth about £150 million, and the family's remaining 85 percent is worth roughly £850 million on paper, which is where the Sunday Times figure comes from.

The single biggest driver of Matchroom's value is its broadcast relationship with DAZN. In May 2018, Matchroom Boxing signed a deal with DAZN to promote fights in the United States, widely reported at the time as a $1 billion agreement, and Sportcal still describes the US tie-up that way. Matchroom extended the arrangement in June 2021, and its UK output moved from Sky Sports to DAZN under what Broadcast described as a global rights agreement.

In February 2026 the two sides signed a new five-year deal covering the UK and US through 2031, with DAZN carrying 30 Matchroom events a year, plus a separate Australian arrangement with Foxtel and Kayo for seven events in 2026. No value was announced. Eddie's quote: "DAZN is the only partner that matches our ambitions for boxing."

The DAZN money is what let Matchroom pay guaranteed purses to Anthony Joshua, Katie Taylor and the rest of its stable, and it is what made the company attractive to private equity. Promoters have always made money on the night. Matchroom makes money on a schedule.

Barry Hearn's genius was never boxing. It was buying sports nobody valued. Matchroom took a majority stake in the Professional Darts Corporation in 2001, and the PDC, along with World Series of Darts Limited, is now a subsidiary that out-earns boxing. The Luke Littler boom is a direct line to the £16.16 million darts profit in the latest accounts. World Snooker Limited is also in the group, and Matchroom Multi Sport covers the rest of the portfolio Barry built up over four decades.

For Eddie's net worth this matters because the family fortune is diversified across properties that generate television rights fees year-round, with low talent costs compared to boxing. A boxing promoter's wealth is lumpy. Matchroom's is not, and that is why investors valued it like a media company rather than a promotional outfit.

The accounts do not name individual directors' pay, but they do give the aggregate. In the year to June 2025, directors were paid £2.13 million in total, up from £1.87 million, and the highest-paid director received £1 million. In the year to June 2023, directors' pay totalled £4.86 million and the highest-paid director received £1.3 million. The accounts do not say which Hearn that was.

The bigger money is the dividend line. £33.45 million went out to shareholders in the latest year and £29.33 million two years earlier. With the family holding the equity until Bruin arrived, most of that went to the Hearns. Across the last three reported years, dividends alone come to more than £87 million, which is the cash that turns a paper valuation into a real fortune.

Eddie's personal income, then, is a seven-figure salary plus his share of eight-figure annual dividends plus whatever he realised, if anything, in the Bruin sale. The seller in that deal was not disclosed.

Start with the Sunday Times family figure of £1.035 billion. The question is Eddie's share. If he holds a minority of the family equity, say 15 to 25 percent, his stake is worth £130 million to £220 million before dividends he has banked. If the 2021 succession came with a larger transfer of shares, the number climbs toward £400 million or more.

Our estimate: £150 million to £400 million, or about $200 million to $540 million. That is an estimate built from public accounts and a family valuation, not a disclosure, and it could be wrong in either direction depending on a shareholding nobody outside Brentwood has seen. Third-party sites quoting $50 million for Eddie were plausible a decade ago and are not now; a 15 percent slice of Matchroom alone changed hands for about £150 million in May 2026.

What is not in dispute is the direction. A company Eddie's father started in Brentwood, Essex in 1982 is now worth more than £1 billion, the sport Eddie runs inside it is profitable, and the family sits a few places below David Beckham on the richest sportspeople list. For a man whose job is talking up other people's money, he has done fine with his own.