Barry Hearn: The Dagenham Deal-Maker Who Sold Darts to the World (and Made Deserts Pay-Per-View)
Barry Hearn: How a Cockney Accountant Turned Darts Players into Gladiators and the World into a Pay-Per-View Colosseum By “Lucky” Laurent Dupré, usually stationed in places where the sport involves live ammunition LONDON—Somewhere between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of TikTok, Barry Hearn, a bespectacled former accountant from Dagenham, quietly rewired…