Eddie Hearn and Matchroom has had a horrible 2017

[Cobra_]

I think this has been a killer year for Matchroom and they have been exposed quite badly.

Yes sure Joshua PPV and Bellew/Haye did very well but other than that it's been an awful year for them.

Their fighters have been outclassed, exposed and lost many belts. Every title fight other than Joshua their fighters have lost this year.

So this year alone they've lost the DeGale/Groves rematch, their hyped prospect Ohara Davies got exposed badly and quit, Crolla looked like a bum against Linares, Brook quit, lost his belt and following, and the PPV bombed, Ricky Burns looked like a bum against Indongo. Lost fighters like Selby and Eubank Jr.

Their PPV system has been exposed and their mismatches are being called out more than ever.

Matchroom has pretty much become the Joshua promotion now.

What does everyone else think? Other than than Joshua has it been a bad year maybe worst for Matchroom?

[NEETzsche]

We had an inflated number of titlists anyway so they were bound to drop like flies once they were forced to defend against real elite opposition. I'm not too concerned about that - it's better than them sitting on their paper titles indefinitely. However Matchroom shows have been too weak this year. The PPV headliners delivering has papered over the cracks somewhat, but the regular Sky Sports cards and even the Box Office undercards have not been up to par, especially with BT Sport now providing a genuine alternative. Hearn needs to pay more respect to the levels of boxing in between world championship level and Latvian plumber level. Competitive domestic fights should be the backbone of British promotions

[Curt Henning]

I cant help but look at your fave and least favorite lists without laughing at you. And having pity on you as well.

[TheBigLug]

They're still beating all the others promoters hands down when it comes to ticket sales and PPV sales. That's what matters to them. With them and the Sky hype machine behind them, they will continue to be able to hype fighters and make money.

If any promoter has a PPV as big as Haye v Bellew, they would consider it a good year, never mind adding an even bigger one in Joshua v Klitschko on top of that and probably another huge PPV by the end of the year.

The fighters have taken some losses but the money making never really stops.

[PRINCEKOOL]

Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Kiltschko & Tony Bellew vs David Haye where two of the best fights Eddie Hearn has EVER promoted! Both of these fights crossed over into the mainstream, and alerted the sheeple of the nation....

Matchroom will struggle to produce big fights on that scale for the rest of the year! (It all depends on Tony Bellew's next move!)...

[mlac]

yep, just imagine if AJ got sparked. Eddie would of hanged himself by now.

He'll probably start begging new nose froch out of retirement soon enough for the kessler trilogy

[Clegg]

From a financial standpoint the Joshua and Bellew wins far outweigh the guys he's had suffer defeats or underperform at the gate. You're right that a lot of his guys have lost this year and that does matter, but for now he has enough events/potential big fights he can stage to keep his company turning a good profit for the forseeable future. The guys he has the WBSS will be involved in fights he can stage or at least co-promote.

I guess it comes down to what's considered a success. Crolla has had losses but overall exceeded the expectations Hearn would've had 2 years ago going into the first Perez fight and he can still put him in with Burns in a fight that makes money and sets the winner up for another big fight or title shot despite neither looking like they're top 10 in their divisions anymore. On the flipside of that Hearn at one point expected Brook-Khan followed by Brook going on to bigger things and it didn't work out like that. But I feel like he has enough irons in the fire for now and the positives are greater than the losses from some of his other events and missed opportunities. It does mean if Joshua loses badly in the near future and his star power is gone then the picture would be a lot less rosey but for now he seems set to continue as the top UK promoter.

[Cobra_]

I cant help but look at your fave and least favorite lists without laughing at you. And having pity on you as well.

I don't change my favs like others. I stick with them win or lose.

[Deus]

With the exception of Joshua v Klitschko and Haye v Bellew it has been a bad year for Matchroom, but they've also signed the likes of Josh Kelly, Joshua Buatsi and Lawrence Okolie whom he's already trying to hype up so I'd say that the end is nowhere near in sight for Matchroom. Feel like Okolie will go the Ohara Davies route once he steps up but Kelly and Buatsi look like they'll keep progressing nicely.

End of the day with the money and platform Matchroom have it'll take a hell of a lot for them to no longer be the biggest player in the UK market because they'll still be first choice for most prospects and thus the production line will keep on churning, irrelevant of the duds they get out.

[jas]

not much talent in the uk and the best prospect is yarde and hes with warren