Considering one Premier league game costs them 11 million they COULD put out big money for fights. But they won't. Boxing isn't scheduled like most other sports so they can't get subs just for it.
Theres no way they pay him that kind of money to make that fight in the U.S. Both of them can only just sell arena's in UK. How on earth would they generate that kind of money for a U.S fight. This deal must have something to do with BT in my opinion.
Has he actually signed yet? He might be using it as a stick to beat Hearn with. Either way, it's sad to see fighters chasing money over titles/glory.
That's the problem most of the right fees goes to the Premier League and its not worth the money it gets . This is the reason Sky lost Champions League and Spanish football etc.
The US networks seem prepared to pay up now and work the rest out later. These are cash up front multi fight contracts so even if it doesn't work out, the UK is losing top fighters for a couple of years at least.
Isn't ESPN a streaming service where the punters pay monthly? In that case, the fights don't have to generate huge money, because ESPN have a treasure chest that they're using to boost their content with world class heavyweight boxing. They just need to get their paid up customers to watch the fights, which is much easier than selling PPV's. Or have I got that wrong? I think they've PPV option for the biggest fights which would make sense for Arum wanting Fury etc to have fights on normal ESPN first. Keep the punters happy with solid content, then rip them off with PPV down the line. Makes perfect business sense, in theory at least.
Mad isn’t it...Eddie Hearn starts spouting off about 12-18 months ago, ruffling a few yank feathers and being a tad bit disrespectful to one or two as well. He gets involved in DAZN and the knock on effect is that he may have caused a bit of a chain reaction which as resulted in the big heavyweight clashes potentially being in the US. Added to that, the exodus of top quality shows from the British isles.
As far as i'm aware Dillian Whyte has not yet signed for ESPN. Had no confirmation from either Whyte or Arum.
I think the heavyweight scene is getting very interesting to the Americans & they want to be in on it. It’s not just Wilder, Kownacki has a decent following and he’s building towards a world title shot. Miller makes a lot of noise too...I expect AJ to deal with him but a good performance might give him a lot of credibility. You have the Fury narrative and i’m sure Joshua will make a name for himself over there, too. I think whilst it might not do big numbers right now, in a year or 2, maybe?
Are they? I mean, Arum came out and said the money people were talking about regarding Fury was 'bullsh*t.'
Depends who it is, but an American unbeaten world champion just did 325k defending against an unbeaten Brit, which for me is pretty dire. Why would two non-Americans do more? Reverse the question. If Wilder v Fury did similar numbers in the UK, what would Wilder v Miller do over here? Less seems a fair answer. Considerably less seems likely. If American audiences aren't that bothered about watching Wilder I don't see why they'll be queuing up for tickets for boring fighters like Fury or guys they've never heard of like Whyte.
Classic case of be careful what you wish for. Eddie may well yet come out on top, but I personally wouldn't like to be going toe to toe with ESPN, which appears to be the case. America was a sleeping giant and he's awoken the beast. All to play for now. Wether Eddie fails or succeeds in the states, we can thank him either way for reigniting American boxing. Lets hope it's not at the expense of British boxing. Does anyone know where the hell Frank Warren is? Busy riding on Tyson Fury's coattails. He's missing a golden opportunity here to do great things in UK while the American war continues.