Comments Thread for: Tyson Fury signs ESPN fight deal worth reported £80m

[Ray*]

Well that makes no sense.

How can it be easier to make when they already made it and it was supposedly an easy deal to make then.

Maybe they have already agreed everything and both networks would be showing it?

[IronDanHamza]

Maybe they have already agreed everything and both networks would be showing it?

Hopefully.

It needs to be clarified asap.

[Ray*]

Easier to make? Is that a joke? Please tell me he was joking? And Warren said 10 days ago this ESPN deal wasn't even part of the negotiations. Fight is going to be hard to make minus a purse bid or this being a co-PPV between SHO/ESPN.

Which HWs does ESPN have anyways? Pulev, Rivas and who? Maybe they can make a legitimate run at Whyte now?

That's a good idea (Whyte), maybe Parker is still co-signed to Top rank.

[KTFOKING]

It means the chances of the rematch happening in the next few fights just took a huge nosedive imo.

The announcement was ‘ESPN has exclusive rights to Fury’s next fights’

Which to me rules out a co promotion of any kind. I guess it depends on how tied in Wilder is with Showtime. Maybe Al would let him go to ESPN if the money was there because the exposure would be massive.

Exclusive deal is what Crawford has with ESPN but is still able to co-PPV with SHO for say a Spence showdown.

[Ray*]

Hopefully.

It needs to be clarified asap.

Just reading now that Warren said "Team Wilder doesn't know about this deal". Which would make him a snake, that deal could have been matched by showtime if Warren had made it known to them.

[_Rexy_]

Maybe they have already agreed everything and both networks would be showing it?

Way I see it, they get to double the promotion (the promotion will be on Fox as well as ESPN) and the PPV will likely go to Showtime since (correct me if I'm wrong) ESPN doesn't have it's own PPV. The fight won't be a $4.99 ESPN+ fight.

Bob has already put Loma on Showtime, so the precedent is there.

[Ray*]

Way I see it, they get to double the promotion (the promotion will be on Fox as well as ESPN) and the PPV will likely go to Showtime since (correct me if I'm wrong) ESPN doesn't have it's own PPV. The fight won't be a $4.99 ESPN+ fight.

Bob has already put Loma on Showtime, so the precedent is there.

BT sport didn't have PPV before until recently, But the Canelo/GGG rematch was on PPV and Fury/Wilder was on PPV. So ESPN can definitely put it on PPV too.

[Toffee]

I thigh Wilder wasn't tired to Sho?

[_Rexy_]

BT sport didn't have PPV before until recently, But the Canelo/GGG rematch was on PPV and Fury/Wilder was on PPV. So ESPN can definitely put it on PPV too.

One was HBO and one was Showtime though. At least in the USA. I don't know how it is in the UK.

[EnglishOxide]

We don't know what's happening right now with Wilder/Fury II. According to Fury it would make it easier to make now.

Maybe he means that now he has ESPN backing (and an official foothold in the US without PBC) he has leverage to get Wilder to concede to a 50/50 split and no rematch?