That’s because you don’t understand the model. They work on scale let’s say the AJ vs Pulev fight for example. Currently that fight sells a bunch of PPVs in UK and a few International tv right nothing major and it’s a tough sell in a lot of territories. Also a complete ball ache for promoters to deal with lots of different rights. They might make £15m your off that fight from rights. If Dazn are in 200 territories and long term had for instance half the amount of Netflix subs at 100m. They would have a pot of £1billion a month on content. They could easily pay Matchroom £20m for the AJ vs Pulev fight and show it across the world. if dazn is a massive success then we also get massive fights on the platform. you argument is like saying 10 years ago that you want Netflix to fail as you will not get any good TV series on there if it’s successful
This they have already commutes to launching and can’t hold off any longer. With pandemic Sky have the UK fighters as matchroom have exclusive deal with them. Dazn can only show a US based fight and no one is ready to take a big fight Smith vs Jacobs was talked about. dazn have two options hold off until next year or crack on as they have already invested the money in the software. They aren’t selling their US content to Sky anymore. They can either just open the doors and get some money in or keep the doors closed and get no money from the fights. if they got 5,000 subs they make half a million a year essentially for content that would have earnt nothing.
That fight in itself has been hovering around for ages anyway and I don’t really know why. Rosado isn’t going to over someone of Jacobs’ level much, even if Jacobs looks like he’s slowing a little. And even less so at 168. It won’t even be a fun fight. I take my hat off to Rosado though. A true warrior of the sport willing to go and fight anyone.
Estrada via TKO in the 11th. An all out war and an extremely close fight. thankfully it didn’t go the judges because someone would’ve been moaning either way! FOTY contender.