Remember when all you bums said DAZN wouldn’t survive more than a year or two

Remember when pbcs motto was free boxing? Or when trumf said lower prices and no wars?

Without Turki coming into boxing they would not be the same. Also when people were making those comments they said it as no ppv was the selling point back them and they were right since they had introduce ppv. As the biggest fights need ppv for the revenue That helped them big time as they get the big fights on there. But Turki does want he wants. Got Dana and thrown the rest of the boxing promotersto a side. For fights where there are free agents as the main event i can see him trying to put more on netflix instead of dazn

Len Blavatnik. That’s the name. Blavatnik is the billionaire investor who breathed life into DAZN and essentially was keeping it alive until Turki showed up and now it’s essentially a Saudi General Entertainment Authority vehicle. Good for boxing fans but the more I read on sportswashing and the executions that have come out of there (and continue to come out of there), the dirtier I feel dropping money into these frequently over-produced (albeit loaded) Riyadh season cards. Damned if you do , damned if you don’t Not watching is the right move but that would essentially mean forgetting about boxing I've stated from the beginning of Turki’s reign that it would only be a matter of time before he began to flex his power The sport washing was never in doubt imo need not look further than the Liv debacle

Yup , how easily people forget lol But yes , Turki easily saved Dazn’s ass Len Blavatnik. That’s the name. Blavatnik is the billionaire investor who breathed life into DAZN and essentially was keeping it alive until Turki showed up and now it’s essentially a Saudi General Entertainment Authority vehicle. Good for boxing fans but the more I read on sportswashing and the executions that have come out of there (and continue to come out of there), the dirtier I feel dropping money into these frequently over-produced (albeit loaded) Riyadh season cards.

If they had stuck to their old model a 100% when they first broke out, they would have failed horribly. People were not wrong based on what they knew then. I certainly do not want any boxing promotion or organisation to fail. They had to do what everyone else is doing (PPVs). You clowns need to learn some history and stop with these lame, amateurish high school style of arguments.

^^^THIS. I don’t think anyone talks enough about this. I remember reading an article not too long ago (I think it was by Thomas Hauser) where it outlined that DAZN had a contract up until a certain year and a higher-up (I can’t remember who exactly…some billionaire) would decide whether to renew their contract or let DAZN whither and die. That year has come and gone. And a man known as Turki Alalshikh has all of a sudden showed up out of the blue right around the time the DAZN contract was set to expire (2020-2021). My guess is that Hearn reached out to different investors and found Turki, and Turki was offered a ludicrous share of the company or some other kickback in exchange for pumping money into the app. It started off well, but boxing fans can be fickle and ungrateful. I don’t think the Times Square debacle falls on Turki. That was more the fighters fighting horrendously than bad matchmaking. The Canelo-Scull fight on the other hand… I was an early subscriber of DAZN, then left, then came back, then left again, then came back again. But to those that were around on the ground floor, it sure was different. You paid much less, and zero PPV’s. Now you have to pay more than double annually and PPV isn’t just for “special occasions” as they used to say for damage control when they started putting in PPV’s. PPV involves European fights being behind a paywall for Americans (and vice-verse), Misfits Boxing, Jake Paul fights, etc. It’s kind of a beautiful mess, but since I’m a boxing degenerate, I do it. Yup , how easily people forget lol But yes , Turki easily saved Dazn’s ass

Dazn got lucky Turki threw money at them and now owns shares in Dazn ^^^THIS. I don’t think anyone talks enough about this. I remember reading an article not too long ago (I think it was by Thomas Hauser) where it outlined that DAZN had a contract up until a certain year and a higher-up (I can’t remember who exactly…some billionaire) would decide whether to renew their contract or let DAZN whither and die. That year has come and gone. And a man known as Turki Alalshikh has all of a sudden showed up out of the blue right around the time the DAZN contract was set to expire (2020-2021). My guess is that Hearn reached out to different investors and found Turki, and Turki was offered a ludicrous share of the company or some other kickback in exchange for pumping money into the app. It started off well, but boxing fans can be fickle and ungrateful. I don’t think the Times Square debacle falls on Turki. That was more the fighters fighting horrendously than bad matchmaking. The Canelo-Scull fight on the other hand… I was an early subscriber of DAZN, then left, then came back, then left again, then came back again. But to those that were around on the ground floor, it sure was different. You paid much less, and zero PPV’s. Now you have to pay more than double annually and PPV isn’t just for “special occasions” as they used to say for damage control when they started putting in PPV’s. PPV involves European fights being behind a paywall for Americans (and vice-verse), Misfits Boxing, Jake Paul fights, etc. It’s kind of a beautiful mess, but since I’m a boxing degenerate, I do it.

Want them to do well but as I understand they're losing money. I don't think the boxing model Will Survive for them. Maybe they will be bought out by turkey Turki has already invested money into Dazn Imo that is the reason they’re still around

And that no one will use an app. LOL Dazn got lucky Turki threw money at them and now owns shares in Dazn

It's like 3X the cost it used to be and now they charge extra for PPVs.

Want them to do well but as I understand they're losing money. I don't think the boxing model Will Survive for them. Maybe they will be bought out by turkey

I mean, it exists, but it isnt exactly what it was initially envisioned to be. Cheap price, death of PPV etc. Now its pricey as fuck with actual PPVs as well. Everyone else losing their tv deals etc seems more a failure of those promotions than DAZN having success.

This sounds like needless promoter cheerleading. Most of the imbeciles making bold claims about DAZN were doing so based on emotion and poor reasoning skills.

The 10 dollars a month kind of didn't survive....

DAZN, with its stupid ppvs, still puts on more cards than everybody else combined. I can live without most of the British cards where they import short Mexicans, or Argentinians with no defense, for their domestic contenders to look good against. But who really competes with DAZN? They're about to be the only game in town, and the remainder of fights will be split to the four winds of minor channels that show boxing like twice per year.