What can DAZN and Prime do to improve boxing?

[RockyKO]

I just wanted to get your thoughts on what the two biggest platforms can do for boxing with the emergence of Zuffa boxing. How can they make the product more enjoyable for the fans, build up the fights, while creating new and interesting story lines. Is there anything that HBO or Showtime did that they should try to emulate? Is there anything Zuffa boxing is doing that they should consider?

[adamjones]

I just wanted to get your thoughts on what the two biggest platforms can do for boxing with the emergence of Zuffa boxing, and how they might also explore ways to learn Quran online. How can they make the product more enjoyable for the fans, build up the fights, while creating new and interesting story lines? Is there anything that HBO or Showtime did that they should try to emulate? Is there anything Zuffa boxing is doing that they should consider?

They should focus on story-driven fight buildup, high-quality production, and year-round fan engagement using mini-documentaries, behind-the-scenes access, and social media hype while highlighting contrasting fighter styles and personalities. HBO and Showtime’s strong narratives and event feel should be emulated, and Zuffa and UFC’s constant content and fighter promotion strategies adopted to keep fans invested beyond fight night.

[real raw]

They can put up money so the best fight the best. As a boxing fan, i dont need hype, build up or marination. I need to see the best fighting the best.

[drablj]

They can put up money so the best fight the best. As a boxing fan, i dont need hype, build up or marination. I need to see the best fighting the best.

easier said than done when "stars" want retirement money for those kind of fights. fans would be more satisfied but networks would lose money and everything that loses money don't last long. i want the same as you but there's a reason that's not happening already.

[Coverdale]

The main thing all broadcasters should do is write strongly worded clauses into fighters' contracts insisting best endeavours must be made to fight their divisional peers and that public statements made to the contrary by they or their teams risk invalidating their contracts. It would go some way to ending the tedious "A-side", "I don't need him", "he brings nothing to the table", promoters backtracking, etc.

[real raw]

easier said than done when "stars" want retirement money for those kind of fights. fans would be more satisfied but networks would lose money and everything that loses money don't last long. i want the same as you but there's a reason that's not happening already.

Excellent point. Fighters have a limited shelf life, they need to rethink that mindset and make money while they can. Every year that goes by without fighting is a wasted opportunity.

[QueensburyRules]

- - Boxing Broadcasts drive me away. I don't pay $$$ to hear a bunch of coiffed softlads primp and talk over the action.

DAZN had no bigger supporter than I, but their product was spotty and infuriating to find out the fight had already taken place.

[PRINCEKOOL]

The sport is only as good as its fighters 'many people within the boxing community, all seem to criticise ether boxing promoters or broadcasters. But the reality is? Most boxing promoters in my opinion want to make big fights; they want to create story lines and themes. Why would they not? That is what creates good business'.

Note: But modern day fighters, in my opinion do not display the drive and passions to pursue competition 'to the same level as fighters in past boxing eras'.

So all this? Blah blah what can promoters, or broadcasters do to improve the sport needs to stop 'sometimes the fighters themselves need to be made responsible'.

If Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury really wanted to ever fight Anthony Joshua 'those fights would have been agreed and made essentially within a 10 to 15 minutes phone call. Those are the facts of boxing history'.

The point I am trying to make is? I don't think improving a sport is always about a broadcasting platform 'much of the time it is about the calibre of fighters in the sport and their ambitions'.

There was a movie called, Field of Dream: 1989. And there is a line in the film, which goes like this? "If you build it, he will come".

In boxing if the fights are made, if the stage is set 'then people will come, and the sport will be great'.

To conclude: I have stated this many times before on here? I regard the amateur ranks of boxing, as the pinnacle of the sport in terms of pure competition. Fighters in the amateur ranks have a prime objective, to be the best they can be and to win. In the professional ranks many fighters lose that passion and drive from my perspective. But only a few fighters keep that same passion and ambition, most recently this can be seen with fighters like Oleksandr Uysk, Vasily Lomachenko and Anthony Joshua'.

So overall improving the sport is not just about the broadcasters, I think at the top end of the sport 'it is about the fighters, and ultimately they are responsible for pursuing fights'.

Just think back to how intensely fighters like Bernard Hopkins and David Haye chased the fights they wanted 'I honestly believe those two fighters were the last to make moves outside the ring, to get the fights they want'.

Most active boxers in the game today, don't put anywhere near the same effort into pursing fights on a personal level etc.