If Dazn get the rights to the prem then Sky is done. If not I dont understand this move from eddie earn bar the 7 figure cash out
Very few people subscribe to Sky Sports just for boxing. If they did that would be a very bad investment, considering how far apart shows are and the quality of them. So Sky Sports won't lose so many subscriptions off the back of this. The fights worth paying for are on PPV and separate from the sky sports subscription. This is where Sky will lose out unless Joshua and Whyte have the option to fight on Sky PPV. Dazn doesn't seem to fit in with the boxing model. Once boxers reach a level where real money can be made, they become PPV fighters who out grow their handlers and can attract the highest bidder. These Netflix-like services need regular sport like premier League to provide continuous content, not boxing.
No chance. Comcast own Sky and they will never let the rights go. Only a much bigger player like Amazon could seriously challenge for the rights. However, I doubt that they would be interested as the cost/benefit analysis probably doesn't make sense for them.
9 figures. Damn so that explains why they are walking away from the ppv revenue. Edit just read AJ and Whyte not included so Sky can still get there ppv buys. You can't turn down 9 figures. That's a crazy amount for a broadcaster to pay for boxing in this country. I'm still not convinced though that once they increase the subscription price they can generate enough subs with just boxing. People won't ditch sky sports as they don't subscribe to sky sports just for boxing. The biggest winners here are the fighters. They won't raise it to £15. More like £6.99
DAZN are gonna be bleeding money if they charge anything over £10 per month. Also please remember DAZN went in hard for the champions League and lost out to BT. Don't think for any minute they will be outbidding sky for tier 1 premier League coverage. More likely that DAZN will be competing with Amazon for Tier 2 which will see BT sport lose out
Wise advice but it'll go over the head of tool Smith who really has no interest in boxing.A fresh start is only possible if Smith goes
Its funny isn't it...only 4 years ago...people were saying Al Haymon and PBC were gonna take all Eddie's fighters....that Hearn was finished and would just develop domestic talent that haymon would than take at will.
Plus I am not convinced the Premier League would want to go to a streaming platform for tier 1 rights. Why wouldn't the premier League just launch there own streaming platform in the UK if that was the direction they wanted to go. Tier 1 rights cost major money. Silly money to be honest. BT sport for example didn't even bother going for it when last deal was negotiated as the cost to beat sky is huge. Winning them rights means subscription prices need to go up dramatically. Huge risk if you don't hit the numbers required
The 9 figures might be similar hyperbole to the 1 billion deal. I was saying when DAZN started that Sky lacked street smarts. They were treating Matchroom FC like it was their own business. It's like Tyan Booth says, they got drawn in by eddie's fake mates tactic. He didn't break America because Arum etc. are old time gangsters, they'd never let a posh upstart get one over them. One drawback for hearn is that he's going to lose the constant advertising that sky gave. Plus Sky might not pay his lackeys pundit salaries anymore.
So who does production for Matchroom in UK SKY or Matchroom? What about commentators will Matchroom poach sky's commentators? If Sky keeps everything bar the fighters than what difference does it make for them? Saturday night cards were already crap? They can still do PPV, still have AJ and Whyte for now Conor Benn will go for the money either way I would say Eubank could fight Williams on SKY without matchroom or queensbury
He was commentating on the darts the other night. The only people who didn’t see this coming were sky sports. Sky sports boxing don’t come across as an organisation who will have any clue what to do next. Their best bet is a deal with MTK/Frank Warren or Wasserman/Kalle. But it’s just as likely they just junk boxing altogether for a year whilst they kick the fan down the road. In that time they just put on the odd PPV.
How do you create the next PPV star if you don’t have non-PPV or free to air fights and give exposure to fighters on the way up? How can a platform be credible as a boxing channel showing PPV without showing anything other than PPV? The approach of PPV only is a freeloader approach that just isn’t sustainable or credible. It is freeloader because if every boxing channel did it then there would be no next PPV star, and boxing would die off. It isn’t sustainable because it just isn’t a strategy you can follow for more than 1-2 years without it collapsing around your ears, because fighters lose and lose again and get old. Boxing really needs to learn from MMA.
sky were never going to let maim torture kill be plastered all over thier screens dazn don't give two flying fhooks fast car getting money from all angles
