Barry and Eddie Hearn being followed by Netflix cameras for new ‘Succession-style’ documentary – with NOTHING off limits

BARRY and Eddie Hearn are being followed astir by Netflix cameras for a caller documentary – and they assertion thing is disconnected limits.

The accumulation brains down the worldwide occurrence Drive to Survive – which covers Formula One shenanigans – are shadowing the UK’s starring sports promoters.

The amusement volition beryllium aired globally successful June 2025 and focuses connected the fortunes of the Essex-based empire that has fingers successful antithetic sporting, commercialized and broadcasting pies.

Barry, 76, acceptable up Matchroom Sport successful 1982, the twelvemonth aft helium celebrated protege Steve Davis triumph the archetypal of six satellite snooker championships astatine the Crucible.

Since then, helium made millions successful boxing, excavation and darts, the second of which helium transformed into the 2nd most-watched athletics connected Sky aft football.

Eddie, 45, has since taken implicit the reins of the institution and enactment speech a longstanding household grudge with boxing guru Frank Warren to hook up with Saudi oil-rich officials.

Speaking to SunSport aft helium completed his latest podcast episode, Barry said: “Everything is simply a wholly unfastened book. It’s going to beryllium fun.

“But I’m frightened to person a bath, mate! Because I get up and go, ‘f***ing, who enactment this microphone connected me?’

“The rubric is ‘Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen’. It’s going to spell retired to 500 cardinal homes. They are spending millions and millions.

“The squad that are doing it are the ones who did Drive to Survive, truthful they person a hard enactment to follow. But they are precise excited astir it.

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“You effort to region yourself from it. It’s a bully story. We had Succession, which was astir a take-off of the Murdoch empire.

“Well, we are not astatine that level but it is simply a akin taxable of an aged geezer that starts disconnected something, brings up kids successful a antithetic satellite to what helium came from.

“It’s not a powerfulness conflict but determination are decidedly antithetic influences throughout.

“But the institution has grown bigger and bigger, it’s a planetary 1 alternatively than a British one. There are a batch of bully stories.”

Barry added: “We asked ourselves: ‘Are we acceptable for this benignant of intrusion?

“We've ne'er allowed anyone down the scenes entree astatine Matchroom. But we’re precise arrogant to beryllium a palmy British institution that has added to the sports world.

“We took the presumption that if it’s gonna beryllium treated earnestly capable and done properly, past present was the time.

“They are everywhere. Quite honestly, I’m seeing much of them than I’m seeing my woman and children lately.

“They followed maine to Atlantic City for my introduction astatine the US Open 9-Ball Pool.

“They’re attending committee meetings and we are giving them unlimited entree due to the fact that we don’t privation immoderate excuses.

“We won’t beryllium doing this with anyone other astir apt successful our beingness and we’re going to marque definite it’s a bid that is memorable and tells the information astatine each level.

“We’re gonna springiness them a bully story. There’ll beryllium things successful determination that’ll daze and entertain people.”

The Barry Hearn Show is disposable connected each podcast platforms – with exclusive video episodes connected Spotify.