British promoter Eddie Hearn made his big splash in America in 2018.

Not long after forming his Matchroom USA banner, he signed an eight year content deal with streaming service DAZN.

Hearn had been able to sign up several talented fighters to Matchroom USA - including former and current world champions.

But he admits that more notable names are needed for the Matchroom-DAZN pact.

Hearn is fully embracing the DAZN business model, at least in the United States. DAZN is subscription based and they are throwing around a lot of money to secure talent and content - far more money than Hearn would ever spend without a guaranteed return.

"We’ve got eight world champions already signed. [Oleksandr] Usyk, [Demetrius] Andrade, [Daniel] Jacobs, [Artur] Beterbiev, [Maurice] Hooker, [Daniel] Roman. We’ve got [Jarrell] Miller. But we still need someone like Mikey Garcia or a Charlo," Hearn told Boxing News.

"People [promoters and broadcasters] are just hanging on for dear life. If you look at what Showtime are doing now when we talked about PPV earlier, Showtime don’t have one championship night scheduled at all. But they have three PPVs scheduled: Wilder-Fury in December, Pacquiao-Broner in January, Spence-Garcia in February. So they are having to say to those fighters, ‘we will give you a PPV date’ to keep them. But it will just take time for those fighters to realise that those PPVs won’t hit the numbers that equate to the numbers we are offering them.

"DAZN is a very aggressive business who want everything now, and that’s why the Canelo deal happened. They could have waited there, maybe three months, and they would have got him. That’s not the kind of company they are. They might tell me to talk to fighter. I’ll say I have offered them this. They will then tell me to offer him more. But I’ll say no. We run a business and we know the numbers on how a business should be run but this whole different animal. It’s not something I’m used to, I don’t like throwing away money. I don’t like just giving away another million."