Comments Thread For: Hearn Confirms Five-Year DAZN Deal For UK Shows, Ends Long Run With Sky Sports

[KTFOKING]

Lots of Eddie’s fighters are managed my MTK too such as Billy Joe, Hughie Fury, Liam Smith, Savannah Marshall and a few younger fighters.

I don’t think it would affect much. At the end of the day MTK are primarily a management company and going to keep the fight is on the biggest cards possible, which means Eddie and Warren in the UK. They put a few of their own events on but it’s usually lower level fighters who are needing to get out and fight.

Oh yeah, forgot about guys like BJS.

Some of the MTK shows have been shown on IFL TV right?

So is there any other actual promoter out there with a decent stable out there?

[TMLT87]

Does this mean that all the Matchroom Euro-Bums are going to be forced on us on DAZN? I think this might be awful, I dont want to see no English-Bums every week, replacing world-level contest.

You will watch Eggington/Cheeseman 2 and you will like it.

[asgarth]

Oh yeah, forgot about guys like BJS.

Some of the MTK shows have been shown on IFL TV right?

So is there any other actual promoter out there with a decent stable out there?

No not really.

There is Mick Henessy who sometimes puts shows on channel 5 and has lower level fighter like eggington, isaac Chamberlain and dilmaghani under contract.

And dennis hobson who currently puts out small but competitive cards on some streaming service. But he only has c-level talent.

[KTFOKING]

No not really.

There is Mick Henessy who sometimes puts shows on channel 5 and has lower level fighter like eggington, isaac Chamberlain and dilmaghani under contract.

And dennis hobson who currently puts out small but competitive cards on some streaming service. But he only has c-level talent.

Looks like they will just try to stay in the AJ and Whyte PPV business then and pick up cards here and there. There is a bit of a lack of talent currently in the UK as it is so it makes sense that Warren/Hearn have pretty much everyone.

Off topic, but if American fighters like say Spence, Charlo, Crawford etc came to fight in the UK, would they be able to do a decent crowd out there or it would depend on them fight a Brit?

[deathofaclown]

Oh yeah, forgot about guys like BJS.

Some of the MTK shows have been shown on IFL TV right?

So is there any other actual promoter out there with a decent stable out there?

Not really

Warren’s is the next best. A few good names, Fury being the only real star name but he doesn’t have much control over Fury but he still fights on BT for now. A few other good names but nobody with huge pull.

Mick Hennessy haha. His stable is pretty garbage. He has a deal with Channel 5 but they only show the main event starting from 10pm. Then they show highlights of the undercard after the main event when most people have probably switched off. Obviously because Channel 5 don’t want to give any Saturday night prime-time TV to boxing undercards full of unknown fighters. But sadly that means they get no exposure.

Sauerland is rumoured to be going to Sky. His biggest UK fighter is Eubank Jr. But I suppose if the Sauerland promotion does start working with sky, More British fighters might work with them. So that has potential.

[paulf]

Risky move. He's created an opening where there wasn't one before, and no spaces in the market stay unoccupied for long.

One the other hand, this is a nice opportunity for other promoters in the UK to gain some market share.

[Ray*]

Oh yeah, forgot about guys like BJS.

Some of the MTK shows have been shown on IFL TV right?

So is there any other actual promoter out there with a decent stable out there?

All these boxers are very loyal to MTK global, so don’t be shocked if MTK pulls a Al Haymon (GBP promoting a lot of those Al fighters back then) getting themselves a *Tom Brown Promotions* and they too start *Advising/promoting* these boxers on Sky or BT sport themselves. Just that these boxers wouldn’t be able to say “Thanks Daniel” openly…

[BigZ44]

They announced it is staying at £2 a month until the end of August, They are running that fight camp in July and August. So the first three cards during that month will be at that price point at least. I’m sure it will go up after that though.

Ah OK, so they are really gonna try to get people to buy in early at the low price point. Guessing it ends up somewhere between 4.99 and 9.99 for the UK audience

[DaNeutral.]

This is big news. This is REALLY big news TBH. Its a long time and boxing doesn't seem to be slowing down. I would have thought Sky would have fought harder to retain rights to PPVs. Really not sure whats going on here. Is Sky not willing to pay? Do they not see Matchroom as worth it? Will they attempt to forge a relationship with another stable??

I'm also torn on DAZN, tbh I think this move should have been the one they did first (though I am assuming that contractual obligations meant they shouldn't) but, at the same time, what will be the pricing strategy? £10 a month? Less??? I also can't imagine this being all that wonderful for UK based Matchroom fighters who likely wont get access to gate revenue and PPV bonus backends. But then I don't know if that was ever a thing here. I dunno, boxing purses seem way more secretive in the UK. There is nothing like the Nevada Athletic commission to verify minimum earnings.

This also seems rife for exploitation and moves one step closer to the UFC style model Hearn has always envisioned. I'm sorry but Hearn seems to have way greater power within DAZN than someone like Warren or Arum have among BT Sport and ESPN respectively. Will this end up exasperating the problem the Ali Act tried to fix???

Well price wise I can’t see it being under a tenner but I really hope it’s not much more. Either way it will definitely be the end of the 1.99 I’ve been paying.

[1hourRun]

Didnt US customer get every previous sky card on dazn?

Like I said, I did not pay attention to them, I assume that if these fights were on DAZN, they must of been on the undercard of Anthony Joshua or Dillian Whyte or maybe even Derek Cheesora.

You will watch Eggington/Cheeseman 2 and you will like it.

I have only seen highlights of Egg and Chesse. I did not even know they fought, and dont try to convince me of watching these two bums.