Matchroom: The Greatest Showmen documentary on Netflix shows off the worlds of darts and boxing, but not so much snooker, believes former world champion Shaun Murphy.
The six-episode series gets a look behind scenes of the sports promotion giant, led by Barry and Eddie Hearn.
It is declared in the documentary that the three pillars of Matchroom Sport are snooker, boxing and darts, but there is a strong feeling in the snooker world that only two of the three pillars were shown to be in good standing.
Boxing dominates the series, following Eddie Hearn and Matchroom’s CEO of Boxing Frank Smith around the world to big fights, and that is clearly a glamorous, exciting world they operate in.
The huge financial success of darts is trumpeted and PDC chief executive Matt Porter rightly shone in