Comments Thread For: Canelo's Deal With DAZN is 11 Fights, $365 Million Guarantee

[PETUFF]

Wow congratulations thats a lot of money better be good fights!

[Noelanthony]

Canelo is undoubtably the king of boxing right now.

Then number 2 is your boy Benavidez?

Where have you been we don’t talk no more. On Saturday you were telling me Crawford will be exposed now 4 days later you are talking about Canelo😂😂.

You are patriotic, I will give you that✌🏿

[5000boxing]

Damn.. Eddie ain't bullshyting! This might be the best, and most threatning move he's done yet to American boxing.. Im all for more boxing... but I'm not dropping HBO for canelo.. let me think about it.. canelo or game of thrones, westworld? Nah, its still hbo even with no boxing.. but if he signs the charlos, wilder, tank, and spence I might have to pay the 10 dollars a month.. lets see what happens with the power vacuum.

[BigStomps]

Because they know Eddie ***** is failing, they overpay Canela big time, he can not beat a young fighter in his prime, especially an athletic one, lolllllllllllllllll. This is a joke!!!!!!!!!!

Keep hating fool!
That'll get you nowhere in life...
Loser! 🤣

[James Hunt]

365 million to fight tomatoe cans, enjoy it idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!

It hurts, doesn't it? Hope it hurts a lot.

[bballchump11]

Good for him. That's a hard deal to pass up

[BoxingTech718]

It would be great if Daxn get get GBP, PBC, and Top Tank all under its umbrella. That way there wouldn’t be any more promotional obstacles to fights. But a fan can only dream

[bigdunny1]

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/25003974/canelo-alvarez-signs-5-year-11-fight-deal-worth-365-million-dazn

In a record-shattering deal finalized early Wednesday morning, Alvarez signed a five-year, 11-fight deal worth a minimum of $365 million with DAZN, which only launched in the United States in September.

It will commence with his move up to super middleweight to challenge secondary world titlist Rocky Fielding on Dec. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York, where they will meet face-to-face at the kickoff news conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Alvarez's deal is the richest athlete contract in sports history, eclipsing the 13-year, $325 million agreement that New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton signed in 2014 when he was with the Miami Marlins.

"Canelo is the highest-paid athlete in the world. He's extremely happy," De La Hoya told ESPN after Alvarez signed.

HOLY SHYT!

[bigdunny1]

Also not a single mention of Hearn in the ESPN article of the deal. According to Fat Boy Dan Oscar made the deal directly with DAZN deal has nothing to do with Hearn. Deal was made with Oscar and John Skipper.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/25003974/canelo-alvarez-signs-5-year-11-fight-deal-worth-365-million-dazn

But about two weeks ago, De La Hoya and Gomez also met with John Skipper, the executive chairman of Perform Group, DAZN's parent company, in Los Angeles. De La Hoya and Skipper already knew each other from when Skipper was the president of ESPN and Golden Boy had a limited deal for a series of boxing events on the network; and they were able to make this deal in relatively short order because De La Hoya needed a home for his fighters and Skipper, with money to spend, needed content for the new service.

[Johnny2x2x]

Cable TV is dying, but this is still a risky move as DAZN is not a known commodity. Canelo’s people should have forced him to learn English’s h a decade ago, it would have made him $100s of millions more in his career.

This could be good or bad for fans. We’ll see. Cheaper fights, but also there will be questions of good fights can be made.