Matchroom is shambles

The BT cards and Probellum cards on Saturday make it easy to give DAZN UK a swerve - not many are going to pay £4 per UK card for DAZN UK when there is more than enough and decent boxing already on the Sky Platform.

Sky Sports, BT Sports, Eurosports and Channel 5 have more than enough boxing to satisfy the appetite at the weekends.

Warrington v Old Kiko is not going to get many rushing to sign up to DAZN UK on a delayed broadcast streaming app 1 minute behind the live action.

Unless DAZN UK produce at least 2-3 better fights per month than shown on the cards above and at UK Sat evening hours - in the UK at least, Matchroom are morphing back to their roots into the Leyton Orient of Boxing.

 

To put it another way, the biggest draw in boxing is choosing to use Matchroom as its facilitator. There's almost no promotion required.

Time will tell if the second-biggest draw in boxing will use Matchroom's preferred TV station in his own market. Eddie is nowhere near the powerhouse he makes out to be - his main claim to fame is that he promotes more shows in more territories than anyone else, but that's a tough gig too - only a handful of markets matter commercially.

 

Dominate doesnt mean other people dont exist, would Hearn liked to have put those fights on ? yeah probably. Will he lose much sleep ? i doubt it.

 

I do agree to an extent, it's more the magnitude of him stepping up to LH than anything to do with Bivol

 

I bash Matchroom as much as anyone on here but if any of their main events fights (apart from Benn) between now and the end of May were on any other broadcaster we’d be saying what a good fight it was.

The problem I see is that they’ve had to have a huge cash injection a year or 2 into their plan which makes their model very unsustainable, and once that cash injection stops I can see the quality in cards going right down.

 

Would it have been impossible for Wood vs Conlan and Buatsi vs Richards to have been done on normal Sky? I think this is where my issue is.

Both are very good fights

 

Standard Sky Sports fights so far this year in the UK from Matchroom.

 

Oh yeah I wasn’t justifying the move. Just saying they were good fights. The whole game changed thing is still laughable.

 

Game stale

 

Neither are anywhere near PPV. That doesn't mean Sky would have funded them though, maybe they just wouldn't have happened at all.

Wood-Conlan has been hyped up in hindsight because it was such a good scrap. Beforehand it barely registered in mainstream media.

 

Wood v Conlan practically sold out in a day or so. Despite Warrington's famed support there are plenty of tickets available for his fight as we enter fight week.

 

The fact he hasn’t won a fight in almost 3 years has made people lose interest. With fighters like Warrington and Ritson, where their fan base is made up almost entirely of football fans from the city, a defeat or 2 puts them off in the same way they’d be less inclined to turn up to a football match if the team were on a bad run of form.

 

Absolute garbage ... Leeds fans turn out no matter how bad they are as do other fans

Warrington is a classic example of why belts actually do matter to keep you relevant ...

Look at Andrade he'd never get a decent purse if he didn't have a belt

 

One comment I would make is the purse bid that won the wood vs Conlan fight would not have been won with the rights fees Sky we’re paying Matchroom outside of PPV. That fight would have gone on a joint PPV with Chisora vs Parker like the Taylor vs Prograis fight

 

Exactly. Since Hearn left Sky they have put Eubank v Williams and Taylor v Catterall on Saturday fight night at prime time. I would imagine those purses were as high, if not higher than Wood v Conlan. Can't remember last time Hearn put such match ups on when at Sky, without them being on PPV.