Comments Thread For: Premier Boxing Champions, Amazon Prime Announce Multi-Year Rights Agreement

[YGriffith]

I watched it via Hulu for the last few years as is, no one in their right mind has cable anymore. I’ve had Amazon a while now. I have about 5 big screen smart TVs in and outside my home including the backyard underneath the covered deck. The problem isn’t watching it on an app, the problem is many pbc fans didn’t want to throw in their lot with Eddie Hearn back in 2018 when he came as the representative for dazn. Had dazn presented itself with a different face, a more diplomatic face, a face that sought to bring everyone on bard rather than out pbc out of business while claiming the “American takeover”, I strongly believe boxing in the USA would look differently than it does now. Regarding Amazon, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have it and most of the people I know are 50-70 years of age and are American, British, Irish. I don’t know how this amazon deal will turn out, but it gives boxing a much larger reach than it had yesterday. Comparing Amazon to dazn is like comparing the the SAS to the Girl Scouts.

He's not talking about sane people, he's talking about PBC fanatics (every promoter has his) that were ****ting on canelo/AJ and so on for fighting in an app (dazn).

[Elheath]

If the rumor that Amazon isn't doing guaranteed purses but just PPV bonus is true, that sounds like the beginning of the end IMO. Out side a very small handful there will be much less money involved.

[JLC]

He's not talking about sane people, he's talking about PBC fanatics (every promoter has his) that were ****ting on canelo/AJ and so on for fighting in an app (dazn).

Well, to be fair, nobody has DAZN. 200m folks have prime. DAZN maybe 15m world wide.

I had DAZN for years. The fights weren’t that good and then they introduced PPV so I cancelled.

having said that I would have rather had PBC go to a platform where there was already another stable of fighters, but this will also work since I already got prime.

[F l i c k e r]

This is going to be interesting. Amazon seeking world domination. LOL

[wrecksracer]

I watched it via Hulu for the last few years as is, no one in their right mind has cable anymore. I’ve had Amazon a while now. I have about 5 big screen smart TVs in and outside my home including the backyard underneath the covered deck. The problem isn’t watching it on an app, the problem is many pbc fans didn’t want to throw in their lot with Eddie Hearn back in 2018 when he came as the representative for dazn. Had dazn presented itself with a different face, a more diplomatic face, a face that sought to bring everyone on bard rather than out pbc out of business while claiming the “American takeover”, I strongly believe boxing in the USA would look differently than it does now. Regarding Amazon, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have it and most of the people I know are 50-70 years of age and are American, British, Irish. I don’t know how this amazon deal will turn out, but it gives boxing a much larger reach than it had yesterday. Comparing Amazon to dazn is like comparing the the SAS to the Girl Scouts.

I hope PBC succeeds on Amazon. I get that they didn't want to throw their lot in with Eddie Hearn, but if I had a dollar for every time I heard a PBC fan complain about watching boxing on their phone, I'd be a rich man. I've had my computer hooked up to my big screen via HDMI for the last 15-20 years, so the argument about watching boxing on a phone always sounded like an old man yelling at clouds to me.

[QballLobo]

These PBC fighters are about to get a wake up call. Haymon blew through investors money for years but this deal looks to be more performance based i.e if guys want to get paid they will need to be more active and make fights people actually want to see vs a majority of stay busy fights.

[removed]

Nice one. Prime is already the best value streaming service.

[paulf]

All the fangirls praying for PBC's demise will once again have a sad Christmas.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Not a fan of sports streaming but this was clearly the best potential landing spot for PBC. Hopefully Amazon demand the big fights get made.

[SteveM]

Boxing just got more fractured - best won't be fighting the best - but for me, PBC on Amazon is better than PBC on Showtime - i wonder if any of the Showtime presenters and production crew will get jobs at Amazon - I imagine not which will be a shame for them