{"id":168507,"date":"2025-09-25T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168507\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:03:10","slug":"eddie-hearns-matchroom-boxing-and-jay-zs-roc-nation-sports-to-team-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168507\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn&#8217;s Matchroom Boxing And Jay-Z&#8217;s Roc Nation Sports To Team Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of Matchroom Boxing, Eddie Hearn, has established himself as one of the most notable names in the sport. The prominent UK promoter has represented fighters such as Anthony Joshua, Conor Benn, Carl Froch, and currently boasts a deep roster of athletes. <\/p>\n<p>Although the majority of Hearn&#8217;s athletes are from the UK, the 46-year-old has also signed international champions in a bid to improve his company&#8217;s reach. Shakur Stevenson and Jai Opetaia have both competed under the Matchroom banner, with more global stars potentially in the sights of Hearn. <\/p>\n<p>Now it appears Hearn has taken his next steps in growing the worldwide appeal of Matchroom Boxing. <\/p>\n<p>Eddie Hearn Enlists Help of Jay-Z&#8217;s Sports Management Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chairman of Matchroom Boxing, Eddie Hearn, has established himself as one of the most notable names in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-168507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}