Embarrassing. Absolute frauds and liars. Gone from no PPV at all to ‘only one off fights like Canelo and AJ’ to now a non-title domestic catchweight fight.
People subscribed in the first place because there was no PPV. The backlash for this will be huge. Expect Hearn to revert to his usual ‘sitting in your mums spare room in your transformer pyjamas’ if anyone dares mention the fact he said PPV was dead.
Who in the right mind is going to pay to watch this nonsense, I know I won't be, it is just a meaningless fight attempting to catch the imagination of the public hoping it will sell based on their fathers rivalry. For what it's worth though CE makes easy work of it, and as per usual the punters will say to each other once again, I can't believe I paid that much to watch that shite!!
Presumably 24.98 includes a month's 7.99 subscription like they've done with Canelo so if there's another show in the following month, it might feel a bit cheaper. Barely.
If he was being honest, it's always been 'for fights the broadcasters can't justify backing'. Same as any PPV down the years. Then he'd have to admit DAZN couldn't justify paying the market rate for Joshua-Usyk, so he won't. Afterthought edit: for years HBO and Showtime protested they were not promoters, they simply showed fights. But as soon as they risk underwriting a PPV, they're responsible for the money and thus acting as the promoter. Exactly the same here.
Never known a subscription service to charge so much for so little. It's like Spotify having hardly any songs but once a month they release a bang average album, for anything remotely good you have to pay even more on top. The Dire Straits song 'Money For Nothing' would definitely be apt for DAZN.
I mean it’s pretty similar to Sky Sports model. Charge a monthly subscription for regular events with a PPV element for big events.
I would never pay PPV to watch Eubanks jnr again.it’s just an absolute no no for me regardless if I wanted to see it.
Yes, and as mentioned above, only where the rights fees don't work for them. The fact they can't get away with it for football matches shows that there's a good balance in the market between what fans want to pay, and what Sky can justify. Still can't get my head around how cheap the darts TV rights are though, given the massive audiences they pull in. Way above boxing and comparable to most Premier League football.
Its essentially the same price, they'll hope everyone signs up for a month to get it for the cheaper rate when in reailty it works out the same price, assuming you remember to cancel. The optimal move for a non subscriber is just to pay the £24.98 and not have to cancel rather than sign up, assuming of course they allow that as an option.