Their head of partnerships on Prime Video's plans to pick up the slack from Showtime's departure. Among other things, he says they're "targeting somewhere between 10 to 12 fights a year, the majority of which I think will be pay-per-view": https://www.nexttv.com/news/boxing-...weet-science-on-eve-of-ppv-boxing-event-qanda
Agreed this is not the solution. The sport needs to be seen by the mainstream in a free or nearly "free" platform. This is a step back from what PBC and DAZN were accomplishing a few years back. Top rank also televise many cards. But as said above Amazon will pick up some slack for a while. Boxing needs to fix it's greed problem.
Respect for Tszyu to take replacement 2 weeks before event. Thurman and Fundora are completly different fighters, Fundora tall like tower + southpaw. Tszyu must be confident about win.
I predict laughably bad commentary for every fight, with the bonus of everyone on the production backing the house fighter and discounting any good work the non-house fighter does.
Haha what? Hey Lara vs Thurman would have been a big fight 5-6 years ago! Fundora as the replacement probably makes the actual fight better though. I don't understand PBC, they have a bunch of good talent and two of the best distribution channels, but their activity slowed to a crawl after 2020. They get dropped by Showtime, appear to be dead in the water, but are thrown a lifeline by Amazon Prime. Now their first card is them pulling names out of a hat, charging $70, and spending nothing on promotion? I didn't even know it was happening until recently and I watch stuff on Prime all the time. They're all house fighters on this card, guess we'll know who the favorite is though. Do you know who's doing the commentary?
I just do not get the PBC economic. Tsyzu is getting 10 million. This PPV will not sell more than 30k at $70 a pop.
