Puts to bed the rumours. Hearn claims he’s been approached by 3 other broadcasters, but he’s happy at Sky and expects to extend the contract in the next 6 weeks. Also keeps the exclusivity by sounds of it. Not getting rid of PPVs just yet, also not sure where that leaves DAZN.
No surprise. DAZN gets the US shows but no way Eddie would leave sky for the UK stuff when the ppv market is not declining in the UK. DAZN can't pay the purses those ppv fighters recieve. For sky it works out ok as the American shows in the early hours are not what they need.
Joshua also has a long-term deal with Sky separate from Matchroom, so even if Hearn did jump ship AJ would remain on Sky.
Yep, as expected. Curious as to who those other two broadcasters who approached him were, presuming one was DAZN (if he’s not just bs’ing on that) but the Sky and Matchroom relationship is far too cozy for either party to want out.
Be interesting to see if Sky have upped the budget significantly if Eddie had other players in play. Logic says yes so the Saturday fight nights should mean bigger purses and better fights.
Wondered that but I couldn't find any details of when Warren's deal is supposed to end? https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2020/02/21/itv-and-bt-sport-to-simulcast-queensberry-boxing/ How many shows have ITV broadcast?
Hearn would say he's been approached by other broadcasters, he hasn't signed a deal yet. I could see BT sniffing around potential future PPVs and DAZN wanting total exclusivity but I don't think broadcasters are queuing up in the current no fans, economic climate.
Heard somewhere it was a multi year deal that BT could opt out of with a notice period. Effectively a rolling contract and the reason Warren kept boxnation open as a back up
BT will definitely be sniffing around if they got Matchroom from Sky it would only leave the F1 that drives any sort of numbers they haven’t taken. would be no point for Hearn though. DAZN are the only ones that could take him from Sky at some point. wouldn’t surprise me if Sky are exclusive to Matchroom but Matchroom aren’t exclusive to Sky. something along the lines of Hearn has to provide 4 PPVs a year and 12 fight nights that must be approved by Sky. Aslong as that happens he can run other events. the other thing is it’s a short term 2-3 year deal and he starts hosting events in Spain and Germany with British fighters on a UK time for DAZN. Market to the football casual audience as a knees up weekend away
