So Hearn has done a low-rent copy of Boxnation and all you think he's a genius LOL

I’m sure you would however rush to open your curtains if Eddie was rimming Joshua outside your window.

 

I cancelled Netflix as it's just full of trash filler shows with generic actors/actresses.

DAZN isn't available where i'm at so i don't particularly care too much about it. I do believe Hearn may have set himself up by having more pressure on his shoulders than he has with sky.

DAZN investors may be a bit dissapointed. I mean maybe they're really big boxing fans and don't mind taking a loss initially.

UFC just did a big deal with ESPN to put their archive, contender series, looking for a fight and fight night shows on ESPN's streaming service ESPN+ plus in a 200 million dollar deal. Which is more reasonable for ESPN.


I also think you have to factor the tv rights streaming deals the other big players like FOX/Disney, NBC CBS, Paramount, Amazon, Netflix will try to create with the NFL, NBA,...etc.. will try to pull off.

Cause the argument for it i gather is DAZN are using this as some sort of leverage to get more sporting events on their streaming service? How will they beat the juggernauts in terms of getting those rights? NBC CBS have the premier league. Fox has the nfl/nba

I know with amazon and netflix they have their own shows, different movies,...etc... ESPN has their own content and now have mma coming to their streaming service along with boxing. HBO have HBO GO with their hbo tv shows like GoT which perhaps is more enticing than just picking up DAZN for boxing.


Eddie has already stated he plans to put prospects on DAZN. DAZN has the UK ppv events. I just think the majority of the shows might not be worth it initially until it grows and becomes more of an attraction.

32 shows with 17 of them being next gen cards. If DAZN get some of the fights like Lomachenko vs Linares or one's previous shown on boxnation then it would be worth a buy for the hardcore.

Eddie essentially has nothing to lose just the investors might shriek later down the line.

In all the interviews now it seems like he's ''begging'' fighters to join him. I'd like to see good fights and if he can pull them off i'll be happy.

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On the espn deal

http://www.fightopinion.com/2018/05/10/ufc-disney-espn-bob-iger-marriage/


Amazon is Best of Breed in maximizing cloud computingbut they’re not stupid nor desperate enough to reportedly pay UFC $150 million dollars a year for a bunch of events. ESPN & Disney are, however.

The collapse of carriage fees on cable for ESPN means they are competing in a cutthroat streaming business market. One big competitor in the combat sports space is DAZN, who just hired former ESPN boss John Skipper. DAZN is going all-in with promoter Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing for $125 million dollars a year. ESPN+ has Top Rank Boxing and will now have UFC content.

The biggest challenge for ESPN is being able to produce content that doesn’t conflict with contractual obligations to the various major cable providers. In order to get UFC content on ESPN+, it was going to cost a premium. $150 million a year for 15 shows is ridiculously reckless. In comparison to DAZN ponying up $125 million a year for Matchroom Boxing? Maybe not as heartburn-inducing as first thought.

ESPN+ is $5 a month or $50 a year for a full-time subscriber. Between the amount of subscribers needed along with digital advertising, Disney’s “investment” in UFC is a really risky proposition. It’s the equivalent of buying a mansion as an income property in hopes of paying off the mortgage using cash flow from others.

Amazon was never going to be able to offer UFC $150 million dollars a year nor should they have even considered doing so. What Amazon could do was provide an explosive platform to grow merchandising and advertising revenues. What Amazon represented was not a guarantee but an opportunity. For vulture venture capitalists, the guaranteed cash always beats out the promise of opportunity. The financiers aren’t playing around.

If you had told me from the start that someone was willing to pay over $100 million dollars a year for streaming rights, then I would have never considered Amazon to be a serious threat. Amazon could have made Fight Pass bigger than anything UFC could have ever imagined but what’s the point when Disney is throwing cash at you like a drunk sailor?

The story of UFC’s new marriage with ESPN speaks much more to the state of Disney’s health than it does the health of UFC. Disney is in a Comcastic death grip over the fight to acquire Fox Sports assets. Comcast pressuring Fox with a 15% premium over Disney’s largely stock-based offer means a future explosion. ESPN used to be the safest, take-it-to-the-bank business play. It was the 30-year American T-note. You could never fail with all those cable carriage fees because it didn’t matter whether or not people actually watched the network. The ESPN+ business model is no guarantee and Disney’s reliance on UFC to save their sports network is a remarkable turn of events for those of us who covered the sport of Mixed Martial Arts from its very modern beginnings

 

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This “billion $ deal” will be a major failure in US, although I will buy a membership and really want it to succeed , I just don’t think it will have any success.
Prob more than 50% of boxing viewers in US are over 45 and they will not stream it, those in their twenties will stream it once in a while .
So imo if it’s not on public cable , not on hbo or showtime ,you can just forget about it.

 

Here in Canada DAZN is $20 per month or $150 for the full year (so $12.50 per month)

I would gladly pay $150 for the year IF they decided to go the 4K route.

 

I puke everytime I see the word "Netflix".

Organising 5-aside football was never the same once that thing was released.

 

FFS

I can't be bothered.

 

It's also a shocker that he thinks his username fools ppl at all.

 

The cut throat orange dude is real salty about this.

 

this AJfan is just an troll...

 

Licking hearns? I do that? Weird....since I don't give as many shits about him like you and some others do. And now I want 'To believe Whyte is a killer, and Jacobs a draw', another odd one, since I don't believe in either. What would make you say those? Very trollish of a response.

If your intent was to prove you aren't a pointless troll, you failed miserably. Save your cut/paste response for someone it actually applies to kiddo...