Barry Hearn documentary on BBC2

[Kirkland Laing]

After hitting the jackpot in the eighties with snooker and the Nugget he hit it again a decade ago with darts*. Darts is the biggest thing on Sky Sports apart from the Premier League and its massive success and the fact that Hearn basically owns the show and means that he can dictate a little bit to Sky, a little bit like music impressario Al Haymon gets his boxers on HBO because they want to show his music stars, which is why Hearn's boxing promotional outfit are on Sky and Warren/Hatton etc. got the boot. Warren started BoxNation which I'm sure won't be a success and after that he's got no TV deal. From the outside looking in he's losing fighters and it looks like the beginning of the end for him. Hatton is so fucked he's thinking of teaming up with former enemy Warren and putting his fighters on BoxNation. Smart money says Hearn owns British boxing in five years.

*For those non-Brits, darts in Britain sees crowds of sometimes over ten thousand packing arenas to watch two highly physically-conditioned athletes throw tungsten darts at a board.