Top Rank is preparing to announce an agreement for a new broadcast deal with DAZN.
The influential promoter had been without a broadcaster since the conclusion of its eight-year partnership with ESPN in July 2025, when Xander Zayas defeated Jorge Garcia Perez.
Two of its leading fighters, Raymond Muratalla against Andy Cruz and Emmanuel Navarrete against Eduardo Nunez, recently won well-received title fights on separate promotions shown on DAZN, and after a period of considerable uncertainty they will join fellow leading promoters Matchroom, Queensberry Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions in working with the broadcaster that has long branded itself the “home of boxing."
Bob Arum’s organization, on Wednesday in New York, is expected to confirm the agreement of a multi-year contract potentially encompassing in the region of 10-12 promotions a year. The promotion expects the full financial support to make the fights it intends, and also to have the option of staging promotions on DAZN’s pay-per-view model.
The agreement that could make Top Rank as busy as it was with ESPN is set to commence in May or June and means that in addition to Muratalla and Navarrete, the promising Zayas, Keyshawn Davis, Abdullah Mason, Bruce Carrington, Teofimo Lopez Jnr, Janibek Alimkhanuly, Richard Torrez Jnr and more will have a platform on which to continue their careers.
“I think you’ll see the likes of Xander, Keyshawn, Shu Shu, and Abdullah Mason in short order,” a source told BoxingScene. The same source stressed that they are not expecting a limit on fight dates because Top Rank has been told that if it considers a fight ready to be made, it will be encouraged to proceed.
Top Rank also expects to continue to have flexibility on other platforms. After it stopped working with ESPN, it promoted, among other contests, Zayas-Baraou on the Top Rank Classics channel, The Roku Channel, Tubi and Vizio.
