This week on a special edition of the Keegan & Company Podcast we welcome Eddie Hearn.
Eddie Hearn took over a promotion built by his father and turned it into the biggest name in world boxing. He runs around forty fight nights a year. This year Matchroom landed in Australia. A new deal with Foxtel brings seven of those cards onto Australian soil, available on Kayo, and the first is at The Star on the Gold Coast, headlined by Teremoana Teremoana and Michael Zerafa. The morning before the card, Eddie and Keegan ran 5k together and then sat down on the sand and recorded this. Grateful he gave us the time.
In this episode, we discuss growing up as Barry Hearn's son and why outperforming a successful father is its own kind of hard start, the drive behind his rule that nobody in his industry will ever outwork him, and why the person with a nine to five walking this beach can be more successful than the billionaire. We also discuss consistency (keep banging on the door, it might take one bang or a thousand), why his favourite saying, this too shall pass, is really about the good times, what interviewing Adam Peaty, Mark Cavendish, Mo Farah and Frank Lampard taught him about the cost of obsession, the selfishness it takes to be the best at anything, and the legacy he wants to leave by making boxing a prominent sport in Australia.
This podcast is supported by Denza. Thanks DENZA Gold Coast for getting behind the show. https://www.denzagoldcoast.com.au/
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