How is this good for American boxing?

[icha]

Conversation I had yesterday at the barbershop

Me: You watching the Andrade fight tonight?

Barber: Yea I wanted to check him out. It's on ESPN right?

Me: Naw he's fighting on a new app

Barber: On the ESPN app?

Me: No. A new app called DAZN

Barber: Yea I heard of that. Imma have to check it out n

The barber knows who Andrade is. He knows ESPN broadcast fights now. He knows about ESPN plus & DAZN. He's not a casual fan but he's not as hardcore as we are. He follows the sport but needed direction me where to watch the fight. IDK if he watched or not. But I know if it was on ESPN he'd watch it because of ease of access.

An American boxer won a major world title and probably only 20k people saw it. Explain to me how this is good for American boxing.

and this is why they paid canelo... give it a couple of years...

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

perhaps one day Haymon will start streaming fights, that way you could start 20 threads about how brilliant a business model it is...........

Showtime amdHaymon have been streaming fights for about 2 years now. Bringing boxing exclusively to an app with no subscribers is ****** to me but I’m still going to support it

[Zn1]

I seen absolutely nothing about the fight it was all Dodgers, Lebron James and Lakers. The most talked about fight last not wasn't a Boxing match it was the two NBA Players Chis Paul vs Rajon Rondo

well I was getting them all just fine, so like I said, trends are tailored based on your twitter settings, it's possible you've got so many other sports "ticked" in the advertisers list thing that the boxing trends are being bumped off the list. It's not like twitter shows you everything that's trending anyway, they try to be clever about it (as do most if not all social media sites these days)

the hashtags are there and they were (or still are) active

[Zn1]

Dorticos and Masternak were also trending, as was the WBSS hashtag etc

Katie Taylor, Kid Galahad .. even Conor McGregor in the crowd trended

[rickJen]

To me it's good enough to know that boxers are active.
Which means I don't mind not being able to watch the fight live.
For example, had the Spence vs Thurman happened,
that's good, even if I was not able to see it live.
It means we can move on to another discussion,
instead of having to endlessly wonder when One Time is going fight,
when is his tuneup fights and all sorts of time-consuming things.
Andrade fought his debut fight on DAZN after a looong layoff.
That's good enough.
We can now move on and focus on who his next fight would be.
Instead of this ****** ridiculous condition where Charlos, Spence, Davis, etc., are hardly seen in the ring.

[Motorcity Cobra]

We are living in a bubble

Y'all don't want to admit it.

[Motorcity Cobra]

perhaps one day Haymon will start streaming fights, that way you could start 20 threads about how brilliant a business model it is...........

I was at a local card last night. I support all boxing and I've made a thread saying DAZN is better than ESPN plus with better fights.
Now tell me how fewer people having access to American boxing is a good thing

[-DSG-]

We are living in a bubble

Y'all don't want to admit it.

Are you saying boxing is a niche sport? We've known that since the 90s.

[Jsmooth9876]

Well if he didn't watch it, he didnt miss anything.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Are you saying boxing is a niche sport? We've known that since the 90s.

Taking a niche sport and putting it on a niche app is great for the sport according to the bubble. Taking boxing off broadcast tv and putting it on premium cable made it a niche sport. But a niche app is going to bring it back to the mainstream according to the bubble