Comments Thread For: Terence Crawford vs. Jeff Horn Lands on for ESPN+ App

[jjsmyth87]

You think 1m boxing fans are going to sign up and pay for a 1 year subscription? When so far for 2018 ESPN, HBO, SHOWTIME are avg around 500-700K viewers for their fights? And all those channels offer more content fans care about and in many cases already subscribe to outside of boxing. If you have showtime or HBO its usually not just for boxing its for exclusive shows and huge library of movies on top of boxing. If you have netflix you likely watching more then just 1 standup their library of exclusive elite content is almost unmatched. What else but some old fights you can find online and youtube for free are EAPN+ offering? And the last time Crawford fought on PPV he drew only 50K buys non boxing fans don't know or care about him. I have no clue how many suckers will pay for this app but you struggle to get 1m boxing fans to consistently just tune in to a channel they already own for big fights yet you think 1m will all go out their way to download and pay to watch it on their phone? I want to know what you are smoking. lol

Espn is kicking ass in the ratings and the biggest fights are still to come. Valdez got 1.1 million viewers, showtime fighters are getting 500k views most fights. Crawford had the highest rated Hbo fight in 2017, they were going to put this on Ppv for 60 instead you can get it for 4.99 and your complaining? If your willing to buy an 80 dollar mayweather fight or pitch in with a few people you should be able to shell out the price of a quarter pounder without the combo to watch the p4p number 1 or 2 fighter in the world challenging for a welterweight title for his first fight at 147. Horn is a top 10 undefeated welterweight champion who is huge and will likely try to rough up Crawford like he did with Pacquiao. He comes to fight I cant wait for this. Crawford will likely win but this is his biggest test so far in his career

[IMDAZED]

Crawford Horn is worth 4.99 i dont care what anyone says if i can cancel anytime that means i can choose the cards i want to watch for only 5 bucks a pop. This is great for boxing and the bobfather continues to lead the way.

Great for boxing?

[The D3vil]

I thought the plan was to bring great boxing back to "free TV"
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Did they give up on that?

[McNulty]

Arum is a freakin genius.

[iamboxing]

I hope the app isn't restricted by country and can be streamed to the UK. This is good news. I tried Boxnation but it's so damn expensive.

[_Rexy_]

You need the app to watch the fight which is just fine with me. I pay the same amount for Serius xm which I hardly use. A good card like Crawford Horn is worth the 5 dollars a month, you can cancel at any time so if they announce a bullcrap card next month youd have only spent 5 dollars for Crawford Horn which is an important fight in the ww division, then when they put on another good fight just pay the 5 bucks again. Espn said these are going to be high profile fights so you may not want to cancel it.

I'm more concerned with the fact that I'm in Canada

a) chances are we don't get the app at launch
b) we have bandwidth limits up here, so the more we stream, the more we pay. It's bull****.

[The Big Dunn]

What are you talking about? Crawford is going to make bank on this fignt and so is Horn. If Espn can get a million people to buy the app they would make 30 million thr first year alone if half the people cancel after the first month, 60 million if they all keep it for a year. This will be the first boxing fight on Espn, im willing to bet millions of boxing fans will sign up generating hundreds of millions a year for Espn. Not to mention every year they will keep getting more, why do you think Netflix could pay Dave Chappelle 20 million for each comedy special? Streaming services are huge money machines

You can't understand the post?

With respect to your point about the ESPN app, I have no need to buy the ESPN streaming service. I'm not going to buy it just to watch Top Rank fights.

I was hoping ESPN would be the "Ronald Reagan of Boxing" and tear down the walls between rival promoters and managers since they have deals with all of them. I was encouraged when Loma/Linares was signed.

This service is only going to make the divisions more pronounced because TR will get additional resources which will allow them to make more inhouse fights.

It's a good plan for TR and ESPN but not necessarily for me as a boxing fan.

[bobd9842]

Arum is treating crawford like dog ****.