Comments Thread For: Hearn: With My War Chest - I'll Build Biggest Stable Ever in U.S.

[Noelanthony]

Hearn's activities are one part of a larger piece. The plan is to offer an alternative to cable. There won't just be boxing on there, take a look at what they're currently offering in other territories:



They're banking on viewing habits changing. As more people have netflix and/or Prime the case for cable gets weaker and more and more people will drop it:

DAZN plan to be offering sports fans an easy contract, literally no committment beyond a month, watch at home or on the move etc. May have been a hard sell years ago but now netflix is mainstream it may not be.

Average cable bill is over $100:


Let's say DAZN enters market at $10. You could cut the cable, get netflix and Dazn and save just under a thousand bucks a year.

Nicely articulated with references and figures to support your point. I can see someone done well in their studies. Some kryptonite coming your way

[Scipio2009]

If Hearn doesn't do something interesting with this capitalism has failed us cuz seemingly he's got a bigger budget per year than any 3 en****** in US boxing currently (HBO, Showtime & take your pick for the 3rd name) + has a peak era 90's, 00's HBO budget when HBO was kicking ass & taking names on.

He's locked in to needing to deliver 30 shows though, in an environment where he's not the only person with money looking for boxing content.

We'll see though. (In a perfect world, Eddie Hearn joins the Haymon orbit, Showtime/CBS keeps their end of the premium content, and Matchroom Sport USA takes over the rest of the PBC deal from Fox Sports for DAZN, with BounceTV keeping their four shows)

[Noelanthony]

Eddie Hearn is achieving cult like status in the states. He will be as popular and loved as Arum is now 😂😂. All this even before his 40th birthday. Damn what an accomplishment . Eddie is a arrogant P#ick ( my type of guy) don’t get me wrong ,but even the boxers including Wilder that lambaste in public openly admit he is a cool guy. So don’t be surprised in the coming weeks that TMZ reveal snaps of one of Broner’s kids on Eddie Hearns shoulders ( one of his sons obviously his little girl is not so gullible)

[Scipio2009]

Hearn's activities are one part of a larger piece. The plan is to offer an alternative to cable. There won't just be boxing on there, take a look at what they're currently offering in other territories:



They're banking on viewing habits changing. As more people have netflix and/or Prime the case for cable gets weaker and more and more people will drop it:

DAZN plan to be offering sports fans an easy contract, literally no committment beyond a month, watch at home or on the move etc. May have been a hard sell years ago but now netflix is mainstream it may not be.

Average cable bill is over $100:


Let's say DAZN enters market at $10. You could cut the cable, get netflix and Dazn and save just under a thousand bucks a year.

All I'm saying is point to three US sports properties that you earnestly see leaving whatever broadcaster that they're on to head to DAZN.

I'm not seeing it, especially with everyone, outside of HBO, doing everything they can to hold onto sports properties, with Amazon, YouTube, and Facebook trying to get to the table too.

[thack]

I hope for the sake boxing it works, if not for him for somebody as the amount of boxers avoiding each other has lead to us the fans not getting what is out there.

[Boksfan]

Do you like to post for shock value or are you truly this ******?

Coward? Team Wilder want to fight AJ . First team AJ insists Wilder must fight Whyte first. Then he must accept a truly low ball offer. Then AJ says gimme 50 million and I'll sign, team Wilders says okay but then AJ backpeddles. Now dispite making less money, team AJ only wants the fight in England. You're calling the wrong side coward. IDIOT!

Hey bytch, don't forget to swallow when you sucking Wilder off

[Noelanthony]

I hope for the sake boxing it works, if not for him for somebody as the amount of boxers avoiding each other has lead to us the fans not getting what is out there.

And fighting each other

[kafkod]

Earn with Hearn!

Fast Eddie is the saviour of US boxing!

[ShoulderRoll]

American boxing fans are generally older and used to watching the sport on HBO, Showtime, and ESPN.

Will they make the move to paid streaming services? I am not so sure.

The hope has to be that Hearn can attract a lot of the younger crowd that already streams to watch boxing. But they are usually more into MMA.

I think he and DAZN have a tough job ahead.

[Scopedog]

How many people have actually heard of DAZN before all this? When it was announced that Hearn had this 1 BILLION DOLLAR$$$$$$$ deal I was expecting it to be with some corporate juggernaut like Amazon or something, not some obscure streaming service that isn't even currently available in the market it's aiming to conquer. It just doesn't add up, I feel like it's just marketing puffery from Hearn to sucker fighters in to his already-stated aim of breaking the US market.