‘It’d be massive if dad died in season 2!’ Matchroom’s Eddie and Barry Hearn on their new Netflix series

I feel like if you died in series 2, it’d be massive for the show,” Eddie Hearn jibes at his father Barry, his voice bouncing from one box of our Zoom call to another – from Riyadh to Brentwood. “You know, I was thinking exactly that the other night,” comes Barry’s reply. “What a crescendo! It’s a bit like Succession.”

Apologies for Barry’s spoiler, but it is a bit like Succession. Some of the exchanges between the Matchroom Sport duo – president Barry, 77, and chairman Eddie, 46 – zip like zingers from Jesse Armstrong’s comedic drama series about, well, succession in a family business. This unique chemistry between Eddie and Barry is one of the foundations of their new Netflix docu-series, Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen.