Comments Thread For: Top Rank, ESPN Enter Into New Content Deal Through 2025

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

ESPN and Top Rank, today announced the most comprehensive, exclusive rights agreement in the history of boxing. This new seven-year deal runs from 2018 to 2025 and includes 54 events per year, as well as a full offering of exclusive shoulder programming, classic fights and studio content.
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[Randall Cunning]

Arum looks high as ****. Guy on the right looks like he had a smoke with him, underestimated the potency, now's travelling interdimensionally, just witnessed the happiest and saddest moment of his life in a millisecond, happy as hell and on the verge of tears

[Cigar]

Bye HBO. Nice knowing you. Peter Nelson should be out of a job.

[KTFOKING]

The DAZN deal is actually a bummer for this deal. Meaning ESPN+ can't even pick up the Matchroom cards. They simply don't have the fighters to fulfill these dates with quality. You will be seeing a lot of mismatches as you did in July with Zurdo/Prograis/Jose Ramirez. Obviously Ramirez's opponent fell out but that was a big mismatch. So I was hoping they would at least pick up all the international cards. I'm guessing they will be getting most of the BT Sports cards? Better pick up all the Japan cards as they are really fun and they have a lot of quality fighters in the lower weight classes. Other promoters need to be working with Top Rank here as it would be good for them to get their guys on a big platform and would be good for Top Rank to fill those dates out.

Love how boxing is getting invested big on ESPN and then possibly on FOX with PBC as well as Matchroom with DAZN. Eventually these guys will have to make fights with each other and let fighters for certain fights go to other networks.

[Removed Now]

The DAZN deal is actually a bummer for this deal. Meaning ESPN+ can't even pick up the Matchroom cards. They simply don't have the fighters to fulfill these dates with quality. You will be seeing a lot of mismatches as you did in July with Zurdo/Prograis/Jose Ramirez. Obviously Ramirez's opponent fell out but that was a big mismatch. So I was hoping they would at least pick up all the international cards. I'm guessing they will be getting most of the BT Sports cards? Better pick up all the Japan cards as they are really fun and they have a lot of quality fighters in the lower weight classes. Other promoters need to be working with Top Rank here as it would be good for them to get their guys on a big platform and would be good for Top Rank to fill those dates out.

Love how boxing is getting invested big on ESPN and then possibly on FOX with PBC as well as Matchroom with DAZN. Eventually these guys will have to make fights with each other and let fighters for certain fights go to other networks.

It's a different game with the same rules. We will never get good fights. Until everyone is all under one banner than its pointless to think otherwise. If it's free though it's for me. Let's do it.

[Removed Now]

Why is arum pants so baggy. He needs to get those pants hemmed.

[KTFOKING]

It's a different game with the same rules. We will never get good fights. Until everyone is all under one banner than its pointless to think otherwise. If it's free though it's for me. Let's do it.

I mean ESPN+ isn't free, but I like the content they have from other sports. I'm good with paying that....And $9.99 for DAZN....And whatever the hell I pay for SHO/HBO....And for Canelo vs GGG on PPV....And then for Spence vs Garcia on PPV....And then Wilder vs Fury on PPV to end the year lmao.

[MasterPlan]

That's only 3 cards on the main ESPN station per year.

Hopefully all of the big fights come on ESPN.

[Chrismart]

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇲🇽🇯🇵 As part of their new US deal with Top Rank, ESPN+ will show international cards promoted by Frank Warren (UK), Zanfer Promotions (Mexico) and Teiken Boxing (Japan).

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) August 2, 2018

[BWC]

TR only has really 3 headliner stars right now. It's good that they save them for the massive shows..