Eddie Hearns Wants To Sign Mikey Garcia and Errol Spence

[NEETzsche]

I cannot see that dazn being a success on this side of the pond. $20 a month for matchroom promoted fights simply is not worth it. As far as NFL, nhl, baseball etc we just turn on our TV.

Hearn better drastically increase the amount of American fighters he has signed or it is going to flop big time over here.

From what I have read about dazn, it seems primarily focused on sports popular in Europe. Over here the sports are different

If they're willing to invest $1bn in a niche sport like boxing then you'd expect that they will be major competitors for some major sports rights whenever they next come up for auction. This seems to me like only the beginning for DAZN in America

[sunny31]

Sounds exciting.

They can’t do silly stuff and pay Gary Russell $1 million to fight Hyland like has happened. Those kind of deals put a huge spanner in the works.

Hyland, A man who was subsequently knocked over by Josh Warrington in a leisure centre in Leeds.

They have an opportunity here to say ‘no showcases’ just real fights and if you lose that’s fine. There’s more dates.

I like how Eddie makes a big deal of Broner. Broner is perfect for this type of platform. He doesn’t take soft touches.

As a boxing fan you might as well get behind it I guess.

Its a good point, and I think things like that will happen from time to time. But maybe Eddie can learn from the PBC mistakes and as you said really pay for the fights that are worth it. He is a fan though, as well as a promoter so I'd imagine sometimes he will overpay to get fights over the line. I think this will be a great platform for fighters who are stars, but not yet mega, or crossover stars. Basically for the fighters that can't carry a ppv on their own, which is the vast majority of world champions.

I think the other thing it will be good for is prospects, and undercard fights/fighters. Even someone like Katie Taylor, this would be ideal for I reckon.

I will see how it goes for the first year or so, and if it is good I might swap it for my Boxnation subscription. I have my mates BT sport login on my phone anyway.

[TheBigLug]

It's only available in 5 countries. Countries that more or likely don't get to watch the games that we can by just flipping the channel. Are US people really going to pay $20 or more to stream a baseball or football game that they can watch through there cable provider? It's 16 fights a year... Not worth it for me.

That's just for now though. Streaming services are the way forward. Young people growing up now want everything streamlined in an all encompassing way, i.e their movies and shows in Netflix, music on Apple Music or Spotify. It's likely sports will follow the same path. It's what they're getting used to.

Just because cable providers and TV network have the rights now, it doesn't mean they will in future when the way people watch their entertainment changes. DAZN are only in a few countries right now, but in places like Germany, they already have rights to show things like Champions League. Do you know how much it costs to get rights to that? they are serious.

one day, and probably sooner than we think, watching TV the conventional way through your cable provider will seem archaic, as will walking in a shop and buying a CD or DVD. People are growing up in an age where they want everything at their fingertips.

There's a gap in the market to have sports content in the same mould as Netflix has films and shows. It's a natural progression and it will go the same way in time. It'll take time of course. Maybe it won't be worth the subscription right now, but eventually someone will come along (maybe DAZN) with a service worth it for sports fans, like Netflix did for people who love that kind of stuff.

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

I cannot see that dazn being a success on this side of the pond. $20 a month for matchroom promoted fights simply is not worth it. As far as NFL, nhl, baseball etc we just turn on our TV.

Hearn better drastically increase the amount of American fighters he has signed or it is going to flop big time over here.

From what I have read about dazn, it seems primarily focused on sports popular in Europe. Over here the sports are different

It's 20 bucks in Canada. Everything is more expensive in Canada.

[Ray*]

Who doesn't? Do you know that every promoter in the boxing business have approached both fighters?

[lanker rom]

The NFL, NBA, MLB, MLS, NCAA basketball/football/baseball, most NCAA sports, most of the UK/EU soccer rights, and a host of other sports all have their rights tied to broadcasters (and their own content packages).

What is there for DAZN to acquire in adding the US as the 6th country where folks can access their content?

Japanese baseball, secondary/tertiary Euro soccer, Matchroom Sport cards, and the US shows is hardly enough content to be worth anything, nevermind $20 a month.

THANK YOU

[LacedUp]

Eddie throws EVERYONE'S name out there. It's just to get himself attention as a promoter.
This is the same dude that was supposedly "changing boxing forever" this week.

Let's see...

Biggest deal in boxing history... check
Taking boxing into the digital new age and completely off PPV... check

This deal (if they do what they say they'll do) will change boxing. It'll prevent the TV companies from owning fighters, from forcing PPVs, and allow a much wider audience to watch boxing - continuously.

This is quite clearly a groundbreaking deal.

But this guy is such an idiot he can't see it. He hates Hearn too much

[lanker rom]

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but if they are willing and able to throw around this sort of money on boxing, then you can bet your bollocks they are going to be competing for a lot more content in the US as rights deals expire.

This isn't some tinpot Euro sports streaming platform; Perform is owned by Access Industries which is a massive investment group. It has stakes in Warner, Spotify and ****loads of chemical and energy companies.

Your flaw in your premise is the thought that other sports would be willing to jump. No company is going to move their product to any streaming company exclusively and especially when its not proven to have followers. Now amazon or Netflix in the states yeah but even them getting a exclusive deal without tv channels is not going to happen in 2018-2025

[LacedUp]

What PPVs? Last PPV that I paid for was Floyd-Canelo. Not really all that good at finding streams to steal shows, but if there's a PPV I want to see, I check for a fight party, or simply go to my usual sports bar and catch the PPV for $20 plus drinks (did the theater thing for some of the PPVs too).

16 Matchroom Sport cards excluding Anthony Joshua, and 16 Matchroom USA cards excluding Daniel Jacobs doesn't leave me all that excited on value for money.

Didn't they say they wanted to make 4 'super' cards a year? The PPV equivalent.

Joshua is out of a contract, I'm sure he'll get tied up to this as well. plus all sky fights incl ppv will be shown too.

I like the idea of building a great team, new broadcasters, experts etc. As well as tying up all the significant U.S talent. Imo he should go for:

Wilder, Charlo bros and Spence as the top priorities.

[sunny31]

Let's see...

Biggest deal in boxing history... check
Taking boxing into the digital new age and completely off PPV... check

This deal (if they do what they say they'll do) will change boxing. It'll prevent the TV companies from owning fighters, from forcing PPVs, and allow a much wider audience to watch boxing - continuously.

This is quite clearly a groundbreaking deal.

But this guy is such an idiot he can't see it. He hates Hearn too much

Man don't even lol.

Too much self righteousness to bother with. (see page 4)

Will either get personal, or "I stopped reading at..., tends to be the go to reply to something that rubs her up the wrong way.