Dan Rafael Poll - If You Could Subscribe to One Service, Which Would It Be?

[yammy25]

vargas vs who?
miller vs who?
hooker vs who?

october 6th chicago.

Vargas v TBA shortly - confirmed HL
Beterbiev vs johnson for IBF belt. - confirmed
Katie taylor vs serrano IBF and WBA belts - confirmed
jarrell miller vs TBA ( probs spilzka) - probable
Andrade vs Saunders WBO MW. - too many dependants to know whether probable, im guessing not.

Hooker vs TBA - probably not

just his interview with fighthype from the DAZN launch.

[bballchump11]

Showtime is killing everybody else

[SUBZER0ED]

You can subscribe and cancel any time with DAZN.. you arent locked in to a minimum term.. if they have supplementary content that you are interested in then you could always just stay subscribed, but you wont get penalised for having your free trial.. not choosing to continue into the next month but then going back 4 or 5 months later for a month if its a good fight month.

better than shelling out x or Y per month and being locked into a cable contract

That doesn't sound like a good business model for DAZN, letting people watch content for free during a trial, only to cancel before they're charged. Especially if people do that on a regular basis.

[yammy25]

That doesn't sound like a good business model for DAZN, letting people watch content for free during a trial, only to cancel before they're charged. Especially if people do that on a regular basis.

I think they're confident that their content will keep people paying the 9.99 a month. its only the same thing Arum told ESPN+ subs to do for the Crawford fight..

they arent going to have dark-time on that app where its offline, they'll have continuous content. who knows... only you can choose..but considering how intent they are on conquering the market they seem to want to give value for money anyway.

we'll just have to wait and see for you guys in the states, it doesnt bother me, im a Sky customer in the UK.

[SUBZER0ED]

I think they're confident that their content will keep people paying the 9.99 a month. its only the same thing Arum told ESPN+ subs to do for the Crawford fight..

they arent going to have dark-time on that app where its offline, they'll have continuous content. who knows... only you can choose..but considering how intent they are on conquering the market they seem to want to give value for money anyway.

we'll just have to wait and see for you guys in the states, it doesnt bother me, im a Sky customer in the UK.

If the apps are able to show top fights, I would be interested. If I have to juggle between networks and apps, maybe not so much. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Will the apps be able to wrest the top fighters from the networks, or will there be a split, is the question.

[GhostofDempsey]

Showtime and ESPN have been pulling ahead of the pack. Time will tell if ESPN continues to schedule compelling match ups. Showtime has been 50/50 between good fights and mismatches. HBO seems to have given up on boxing, shot themselves in the foot when they turned their back on Top Rank.

[Kezzer]

That doesn't sound like a good business model for DAZN, letting people watch content for free during a trial, only to cancel before they're charged. Especially if people do that on a regular basis.

You only get the free trial once. The idea is that you won't cancel because they will have regular stuff you will want to watch

People think these are completely new but they have broken into other countries from scratch with exact same strategy. The only difference is the USA launch is based on combat only sport at the moment , although the CEO did indicate other sports were coming shortly but didn't talk about what.

[SUBZER0ED]

You only get the free trial once. The idea is that you won't cancel because they will have regular stuff you will want to watch

People think these are completely new but they have broken into other countries from scratch with exact same strategy. The only difference is the USA launch is based on combat only sport at the moment , although the CEO did indicate other sports were coming shortly but didn't talk about what.

That makes more sense. Even so, subscribing/unsubscribing with the tide of fights seems a bit tedious.

[Chuckguy]

I'm sure there are lots of people who don't like fat Dan and don't follow him on twitter, so interesting to see the poll results here.

If you could subscribe to only one service to quench your #boxing thirst each month which would it be?

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) July 17, 2018

Lmfao ESPN is in dead last even showtime and hbo are beating them lmfao

[kej718]

Showtime is already in the lead, but looking at the upcoming schedule Showtime still might take when the year is over.

Jul 21 2018
Oleksandr Usyk - Murat Gassiev
Jaime Munguia - Liam Smith
Jul 28 2018
Mikey Garcia - Robert Easter
Luis Ortiz - Razvan Cojanu
Dillian Whyte - Joseph Parker
Aug 4 2018
Sergey Kovalev - Eleider Alvarez
Dmitry Bivol - Isaac Chilemba
Devon Alexander - Andre Berto
Peter Quillin - J’Leon Love
Aug 18 2018
Carl Frampton - Luke Jackson
Tyson Fury - Francesco Pianeta
Aug 25 2018
Raymundo Beltran - Jose Pedraza
Sep 8 2018
Danny Garcia - Shawn Porter
David Benavidez - Anthony Dirrell
Amir Khan - Samuel Vargas
Sep 15 2018
Canelo Alvarez - Gennady Golovkin
Sep 22 2018
Anthony Joshua - Alexander Povetkin
Oct 6 2018
Artur Beterbiev - Callum Johnson

ESPN mas most of the top fighters, while Showtime has most of the top fights. Everyone else is just in last place.