Comments Thread For: Could The DAZN-Canelo Deal Lead To The Demise of PPV?

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By Michael Rosenthal - Pay-per-view is the perfect business model for those involved but bad for boxing in general. It allows the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao and Canelo Alvarez to earn in one fight what the vast majority of us make in multiple lifetimes but, because of the exorbitant cost, the audience for their fights is limited...
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[Keythvance]

My sources tell me that max kelleman and Jim Lampley have been approached. This was a package deal...

[TJ highway]

“I believe today, with this announcement, you will see the end of pay-per-view boxing in the U.S. over a period – not today,” Hearn said on Wednesday.

PPV might take a time out but not in 2019. DAZN may own the rights to all of Canelos fight broadcasts, but I don't believe they have the platform to distribute in the US market (at least not today). If a US owned company like HBO, Showtime, ESPN or even Comcast, Spectrum, Direct TV, or Dish Network wanted to buy the rights to the fight in the US market, they would decide the platform in the US.

As Hearn said, not today. Mayweather is talking about coming out of “retirement” again, possibly against UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov. And Pacquiao reportedly will fight Adrien Broner in January, with an eye on a pay-per-view rematch with Mayweather.



Mayweather VS McGregor * (not a real boxer-Fake).

Now he want's to fight another non boxer? But he want's to box him. Fight MMA, and he will tap you out in the 1st rnd.

[P4Pdunny]

Eventually, maybe.

[brettWall]

For one thing, many people have given up their cable tv in favour of streaming, especially now that unlimited internet is getting more and more affordable.

[Butch.McRae]

"For the fans, the deal provides access to Alvarez’s fights – and other combat sports events – for the DAZN subscription rate of $9 per month, considerably less than it costs to subscribe to HBO and Showtime"

Why do they keep posting this lie? Lol

I pay less than $9 a month for my Showtime app. Nothing more.

[Marchegiano]

"For the fans, the deal provides access to Alvarez’s fights – and other combat sports events – for the DAZN subscription rate of $9 per month, considerably less than it costs to subscribe to HBO and Showtime"

Why do they keep posting this lie? Lol

I pay less than $9 a month for my Showtime app. Nothing more.

Yep, and Showtime also keeps to womens happy. Both my mother and my old lady use my sub to watch shows.

Guess Eddie thinks Americans will just listen to him without question. Dunno where he could have gotten that idea.

[suzuky23]

No it won’t kill PPV ... Canelo basically ducks every worth opponent in 154-160 range to go and fight a nobody . Canelhoe a fraud ....

[Stinger1]

IF DAZN can put on quality fights every month then it should make it much harder to sell an $80 PPV. But there have only every been 4 true PPV fighers in the last 15 years anyway, Oscar, Mayweather, Pacquiao and Canelo so PPV is the exception not the rule. It will take a good few years for one of the current crop of stars to get to level where they get 300k+ buys every fight.

[Robbie Barrett]

Greedy distributors taking half the money, making it a lot harder to have a successful PPV are killing it.