{"id":537106,"date":"2026-04-18T03:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:34:12","slug":"finn-russell-becomes-latest-rugby-star-to-sign-for-eddie-hearns-talent-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537106\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Russell becomes latest rugby star to sign for Eddie Hearn’s talent agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finn Russell has signed for Eddie Hearn’s talent agency.\u00a0David Rogers\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Finn Russell has joined England’s Henry Pollock as the latest rugby star to join Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Talent Agency.<\/p>\n

Northampton Saints’ Pollock signed for boxing promoter Hearn last month in what was the company’s first move into the sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russell, the Bath and Scotland fly-half, has now followed suit to join the talent agency that was only formed last month. UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall was their first signing.<\/p>\n

“After meeting Eddie Hearn and the Matchroom team, and learning their vision for Rugby, I knew this was the right move,” Russell said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Their success in other sports speaks for itself, and I’m excited for what’s next.”<\/p>\n

Hearn made reference to Russell’s reputation as one of the leading names in world rugby and will now look to “position” him as such going forward.<\/p>\n

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“We’re delighted to welcome Finn to the Matchroom family,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n

“This is shaping up to be a boom period for Rugby Union ahead of the World Cup next year — and Finn is arguably one of the most talented players on the planet today.<\/p>\n

“We’re incredibly excited to be working with such a superstar of the sport. The task now is to ensure we deliver for him off the field — because after all, they call him the Lionel Messi of Rugby.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finn Russell has signed for Eddie Hearn’s talent agency.\u00a0David Rogers\/Getty Images Finn Russell has joined England’s Henry Pollock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-537106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}