{"id":111681,"date":"2026-03-06T04:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/aspinall-ufc-champion-joins-eddie-hearn-new-matchroom-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:13:42","slug":"aspinall-ufc-champion-joins-eddie-hearn-new-matchroom-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/aspinall-ufc-champion-joins-eddie-hearn-new-matchroom-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspinall, UFC Champion, joins Eddie Hearn: New Matchroom Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tom Aspinall Signs with Eddie Hearn&#8217;s Matchroom Talent Agency<\/h2>\n\nThe current UFC heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall, has signed with the newly established Matchroom Talent Agency, led by Eddie Hearn.\n\nThis agreement represents a significant move for both Aspinall and the British promoter. Hearn, known for his success in boxing, including the management of Anthony Joshua and Katie Taylor, will now advise and manage Aspinall in his foray into the world of mixed martial arts (MMA).\n\nAspinall himself anticipated the announcement on social media, generating anticipation among his followers.\n\nMatchroom has scheduled a press conference in London to address the details of this collaboration.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It has become a guiding principle to seek out people who are humble yet heroic in equal measure. Their journey is our journey. Their triumph, our purpose.<\/p><cite>Eddie Hearn<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHearn expressed his enthusiasm for this new stage, highlighting Aspinall as the perfect signing to inaugurate the agency.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n    \n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThis news arrives in a context of growing rivalry between Hearn and Dana White, president of the UFC, who also leads Zuffa Boxing.\n\nAspinall, who maintains his contract with the UFC, has not competed since his title defense in October against Ciryl Gane. The fight was declared &#8220;no decision&#8221; due to an incident in which Aspinall suffered an eye poke and subsequently underwent surgery.\n\nAspinall expressed his satisfaction with this new alliance with Hearn and Matchroom, recognizing their experience in developing high-performance athletes.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Aspinall Signs with Eddie Hearn&#8217;s Matchroom Talent Agency The current UFC heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall, has signed with the newly established Matchroom Talent Agency, led by Eddie Hearn. This agreement represents a significant move for both Aspinall and the British promoter. Hearn, known for his success in boxing, including the management of Anthony Joshua [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2244,4052,3391,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-111681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-eddie-hearn","9":"tag-matchroom","10":"tag-tom-aspinall","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}