Comments Thread For: Hearn Responds To Sky Winning Broadcast Rights To Usyk-Joshua Rematch

[kafkod]

Eddie Hearn would sell his mother to the highest bidder, SKY backed him for years when he needed it...

It was a business arrangement. Sky and Matchroom worked together because they were making money off each other. Nothing to do with love and loyalty, just business.

[kafkod]

Why should Eddy complain? They're over paying to sell his product, I'm sure Eddy gets his cut. What this might be, is a vote of no confidence. If Eddy was sure of AJ, he'd have bid 100 million.

Hearn didn't bid anything. The bid was between Sky and DAZN, not Sky and Matchroom.

[kafkod]

Hatman made a good point about this bid in a recent video. Sky winning the UK rights could end up benefiting DAZN in the long run. Sky spent a fortune on it, so they are going to publicise the hell out it to get their money back and they have a far larger UK reach than DAZN. If AJ wins he will then be defending his titles on DAZN. Same thing probably applies to Usyk. So DAZN could end up gaining UK subscribers as a result of Sky's publicity blitz.

[Speng]

Sky goes out to the UK and Ireland only. DAZN is a worldwide platform.

And despite that, sky has more subscribers

[Speng]

I think their key strength is that there are another 7.5 billion people in the world and they are trying to cover as many as they can.

DAZN could get huge without the US. They'll still be trying to compete there but there are other markets with less competition for rights.

DAZN has been going for 7 years. In that time they've gone live in 200 odd countries, yet still have less subscribers than sky sports, which is UK only

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Saudi Arabia is a great nation.

Great at throwing people off buildings and chopping off people's hands, not sure what else tbh.

[M312]

What will be interesting is how the undercard looks. For all the complaining people do about him, he always puts on the best undercard he can... What's the incentive this time? Just keeping the Saudis on side I guess, if that doesn't matter (or they don't care about the undercard), wouldn't be surprised to see a very poor undercard to spite Sky.

Crazy bid from Sky considering they can't control this important element.

[kafkod]

And despite that, sky has more subscribers

But only a fraction of them are interested in watching boxing. All DAZN subscribers are interested in watching boxing.

[kafkod]

DAZN has been going for 7 years. In that time they've gone live in 200 odd countries, yet still have less subscribers than sky sports, which is UK only

https://the-media-leader.com/sky-and-******-media-forecast-to-lose-1-6-million-tv-subs/

Sky are losing subscribers as a result of more people going to streaming apps like DAZN.

[Toffee]

DAZN has been going for 7 years. In that time they've gone live in 200 odd countries, yet still have less subscribers than sky sports, which is UK only

And Amazon didn't make a profit in its 7th year.

DAZN is challenging the cable networks. It won't happen overnight but everyone with at least half a brain cell can see that OTT eventually beats cable TV.

The global aspect is important. So is negating the need for a receiver box. It might not be DAZN that reaps all the rewards, but someone will and they'll be well placed.

In all likelihood they'll get acquired at some point.