Comments Thread For: Wilder Prepared To Meet With DAZN, SHO 'Still Very Much' in Mix

[BigStomps]

Good for Wilder. Hope he gets the most money possible. I am really hoping for the demise of pay per view. Most ppv shows have garbage undercards anyway. DAZN and ESPN+ are not only cost effective for consumers but the more fights the more exposure. Hopefully both companies will sign enough quality fighters to offer great fights for great value on a regular basis. Unlike sports leagues boxing is not seasonal and the only way to continue to build the sport is to regularly broadcast the fights that the fans want to see.

Great post and I hope you're right on everything you say!

[The plunger man]

Wilder should be getting paid more money because he owns a portion of the world heavyweight championship and 2 million a fight is very very poor and the American market as well.
Loyalty don’t mean anything if your getting used and taken for a ride by his employer.
Maybe he’s seen the light now

[killakali]

Make no mistake about it. This deal could potentially have far reaching repercussions above and beyond just Deontay Wilder.

Expect Al Haymon to bring several of his PBC fighters over to DAZN with him also under his tutelage and supervision (which will be his fourth platform behind CBS, Fox and ITV). DAZN is becoming the new HBO of boxing.

This deal could potentially break records. Eddie Hearn has been trying to sign American fighters for months now to DAZN. With Wilder, Haymon and the PBC headed over to DAZN; This is definitely a gamechanger. Expect subscriptions to go through the roof.

This is a very good time to be a boxing fan right now. You will have Matchroom Sport, Golden Boy Promotions, K2 Sports and the Premier Boxing Champions all fighting on the same platform.

lol are u high or just dense?? Haymon is just worried about his output deals with fox and showtime in the USA. He needs to keep those ratings up. He didn’t “bring” Jacobs or Hessie Vargas to DAZN lol. He made them several offers to keep them at pbc. Just like he tried to keep eileider alvarez, Beterbiev, and Luis Collazo at PC and not have them go to pbc espn or Khan to Matchroom.

Haymon doesn’t have any control at DAZN or espn. Hearn controls jacobs and Vargas.

DiBella went around Haymon to set up the meeting with DAZN.

Haymon is only worried about getting ratings on fox and showtime to keep renewing the contracts. Losing wilder to DAZN would be a huge blow to pbc.

Just to prove how ignorant your statement was, Haymon made a huge offer to get Jacobs back to pbc but when the canelo fight became available Jacobs signed a multi fight deal with DAZN. He desperately wanted Jacobs back to help keep Charlo away from DAZN

[Outlaw420]

its absolutely hilarious to watch the wilder haters out here..."bout time he opened his eyes...hes been so dumb....when whyte is making more than you on average something is wrong"

wilder is one of the top paid US boxers...whyte making more or what wilder makes isnt indicative of the job haymon and showtime have done with him...its indicative of the us/uk boxing markets....its simple...if wilder were british hed be AJ.....you clowns somehow have it in your head that haymon has done some terrible job moving wilder....he hasnt...wilder is as known and as paid as any american fighter

lol exactly. They were on here laughing like little girls when fury pulled out of the rematch. They said he was going to be frozen out and going back to 2mil per fight. In a different thread they're giving eddie hearn praise to try and save face. 12.5mil is his highest offer so far from espn for his first fight, so we'll see what he ends up with.

[whoseyourdaddy]

Oscar De La Hoya did too. Of course once he found out how much money DAZN was offering he changed his mind real quick.

Oscar de la Hoya never said anything wrong about DAZN, obviously while still linked to HBO, he had to be giving HBO his props,(and first exclusive Canelo services) but once that was done, he did what he had to do for himself and his stable.

[Scipio2009]

As fans as long as the fights get made who cares what network it is on.

But i will say showtime might be just like hbo by the end of next year.

Deontay Wilder I'd basically a fight away from being strictly PPV; the bid up pushed that move up a fight, but that's it.

With Pacquiao being PPV and Wilder being PPV (with SpenceJr budding as a PPV fighter for FOX, though a Pacquiao-Spence PPV fight would be on Showtime), Showtime now has basically 4 PPV dates to supplement what they're doing with their boxing budget.

Wilder beats Joshua and he's King of PPV; folks seem to forget that Showtime's piece from Floyd's PPV fights on their deal was basically enough to fully finance at least three years of Showtime's boxing offering before spending a single extra penny.

Showtime just needs to make sure that Wilder comes back; take the call/meeting, weigh out the offer, fight Breazeale on PPV, see how that show does, run the numbers for what a potential Wilder-Joshua could do with now two data points, and make the call to Joshua's management to gauge their interest in the fight.

One fight (with a handshake on a rematch), split everything 60/40, and let's see the fight.

Doubt Wilder's camp listens to any offer for longer than 2 fights.

[OldTerry]

age, not milage. Sure Wilder is 33, but Wilder started significantly older than 90% of boxers (just like AJ) had a small amateur career, and have dominated the pro ranks. Neither guy have even really been hurt except for one fight each (Klit for AJ and Ortiz for Wilder)

I wouldn't be surprised if both had long careers up to 40. Neither guy has been in a war.

Sound reasoning brother. And with being heavy punchers like they are there is not a great chance they will be in a war since once their artillery lands on target it is war over.

[OldTerry]

Damn remember when Wilder said DAZN was "trash". Either he was just hatin or maybe that's how he really felt but now he looks really silly

I think as the boxing scene progresses Deontay sees the light. In the end, money does matter.

[Redgloveman]

its absolutely hilarious to watch the wilder haters out here..."bout time he opened his eyes...hes been so dumb....when whyte is making more than you on average something is wrong"

wilder is one of the top paid US boxers...whyte making more or what wilder makes isnt indicative of the job haymon and showtime have done with him...its indicative of the us/uk boxing markets....its simple...if wilder were british hed be AJ.....you clowns somehow have it in your head that haymon has done some terrible job moving wilder....he hasnt...wilder is as known and as paid as any american fighter

The American market is SIGNIFICANTLY bigger than the UK market. Look at Floyd and Pacquiao, that kind of money wouldn’t be possible to be made in the UK. Wilder’s a very entertaining and talente fighter but his career has suffered from mismanagement until very recently

[GlassJoey]

PPV is dead, and good riddance.

I suppose that’s a good thing but it’s not good when two of the top US heavies can’t generate a huge buzz on their own. Hughie Fury vs David Price could probably fill a decent arena for a regional title