Following recent teasers that Eddie Hearn and Turki Alalshikh will strengthen their working relationship, it has today been announced that Matchroom Sport and Riyadh Season will collaborate not just with their boxing output but now with their darts and snooker portfolios.
Matchroom is home to World Snooker and Professional Darts Corporation, as well as Matchroom Boxing, and the agreement “ensures Riyadh Season continues to play a key and visible role in some big nights ahead for Matchroom Sport – with a multi-channel partnership and the Riyadh Season brand featuring prominently across Matchroom Sport events.”
Riyadh Season and Matchroom have combined for huge nights featuring the likes of Anthony Joshua, Dmitry Bivol, Jai Opetaia, and Conor Benn who, on November 15, faces Chris Eubank Jnr in a London rematch.
On November 22, Matchroom and Riyadh Season will also work together on the stellar Saudi Arabia card that sees Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez fight Fernando Martinez.
In the same week, between November 19 and November 21, Matchroom snooker stars will compete in the Riyadh Season Snooker Championship, delivered by WST and broadcast in the UK on TNT Sports and, for the first time, the Saudi Arabia Darts Masters will take place in January 2026 as part of the PDC’s 2026 World Series of Darts event which will take place across four continents.
“We are delighted to enter an exciting partnership with Riyadh Season as our special relationship continues to thrive,” said Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn. “And we’re just getting started. We are incredibly grateful to His Excellency Turki Alalshikh for his continued investment in boxing – and now into snooker and darts. The future is bright and we are hugely excited to deliver many more unforgettable nights for sports fans all over the world together in partnership with Riyadh Season.”
Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the board of directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA) said: “Riyadh Season’s reputation is built on being connected to events that carry huge and global interest and Matchroom Sport has been an important part of many of these occasions with us so far. We look forward to continuing our relationship and building on what we have already developed together to deliver even more ground-breaking and exciting tournaments and events in the future.”