Barry Hearn says 'I've not taken salary for 17 years – I don't need money, I don't live that life'

Despite his seemingly endless occurrence crossed aggregate sports with Matchroom, 76-year-old Barry Hearn inactive leads a alternatively humble and family-orientated beingness down the scenes

Matchroom president Barry Hearn admitted helium hasn’t taken a wage successful astir 2 decades, and says his concern ventures aren’t astir idiosyncratic fiscal gain.

The former PDC chief, who was speaking connected his The Barry Hearn Show podcast, has tasted large occurrence with his promotions company, founded successful 1982, crossed a wide array of sports including snooker, boxing and darts, connected apical of others.

However, having retired years ago and handed implicit astir of the reins to lad Eddie, Hearn has travel cleanable astir what helium takes distant from Matchroom contempt giving truthful overmuch back.

Continuing wrong the institution successful an advisory relation arsenic president, 76-year-old Hearn revealed helium has not taken a wage successful 17 years and stated that helium leads a different, family-orientated lifestyle.

“I retired seventeen years ago. I stopped taking the wage seventeen years agone due to the fact that I don't request the wealth and I don't unrecorded that benignant of life,” Hearn admitted.

“But astatine the aforesaid time, I can't discontinue from thing that's been my life. And extracurricular of my family, nothing's much important to maine than kids getting their chance, especially, and I'm biased, kids possibly with the inheritance I had. house. My dada was a autobus driver. My mum was a charlady.

“We didn't person immoderate money, but we were inactive happy. But then, erstwhile you get into the concern element, you get this competitory streak wherever you privation to beryllium fig 1 and beryllium the best. And I can't locomotion distant from that.”

Eddie, present president of Matchroom Sport, has been described arsenic his father’s ‘project,’ starring Hearn to accent the value of having specified a idiosyncratic and adjacent enslaved with his son.

“We person a fabulous father-son relationship,” Hearn added. “We instrumentality the mick retired of everyone. It's not everyone's cupful of tea. I retrieve Chris Eubank saying to me: 'Bazza, I don't similar the mode Edward speaks to you. And I go, ‘look. We're friends. And helium speaks to maine similar a person would talk to me. And it's not disrespectful’.

“It's conscionable the benignant of narration we person and I wouldn't alteration it for the world. I emotion him to death, but I besides disagree with him rather a lot, and we don't clasp back. We're a precise competitory family.

“I volition thrust Eddie huffy due to the fact that I'll pester him and say: ‘Why are we doing this? Why don't we bash that?’ And a batch of the times, he'll crook astir and say: 'Dad, antithetic property now. You're yesterday. I'm tomorrow. Listen to me.'

“I bash perceive to him and I inactive sometimes disagree with him – and I'm invariably wrong. But I cognize the business, I've led the life, and I tin inactive marque a contribution. And I anticipation I'm large capable that erstwhile I get to a signifier wherever I can't marque a contribution, I anticipation I recognise it myself. By the way, I don't spot that spot coming successful the adjacent future.”

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