Comments Thread For: Hearn: Arum Under Pressure, Last Ratings Were Extremely Poor

[Noelanthony]

I'm sure Top Rank Low Ratings is still way more than DAZN...just to be fair

Give them a chance they are 9 months in

[Eff Pandas]

I feel like Eddie has more pressure on him with DAZN than Arum has with ESPN.

Eddie has put on fewer quality US cards per capita than Arum has in the last 6 months.

DAZN is the GBP, WBSS & Joshua show. The rest of Matchroom holds little appeal for even most US hardcore fans outside of the mere appeal of boxing in general. And I say this as a cat who was initially excited about the impact Eddie could have in the US & am still hopeful he figures sh^t out.

[LoadedWraps]

LMAO look who's on the cover of ESPN's magazine for April.

https://espn.reprintmint.com/galleri...year/2019.html

Meaningless.

Pac was on Time magazine when Floyd was p4p king and the cash cow. The media can spin things however they want, doesn't make fantasies true.

Arum and Fury have taken over boxing and cats like Hearn and cans like AJ have nowhere to run or hide.

Fury is the cash cow and A side, and Wilder and AJ are nothing without him.

[emhoffk]

All of these deals are tanking . . .

All of these deals are tanking (DAZN, ESPN, FOX, Showtime) because the fights are not what anyone wants to see. They are usually one-sided fights put on by organizations that don't have enough talent to do competitive in-house fights for a full year's programming. Hardly any of these fights lead to other interesting fights either because the talent pool is now spread out too much between the three warring factions.

Until these guys wake up and work together to form a league and pool their talent like the NFL, NBA, PGA or ATP - we're going to get mostly crap fights, low ratings and all of these deals will fail.

I love this sport and I want these deals to succeed, but the writing's on the wall if they don't get it together.

[bigdunny1]

Hearn is right new numbers out and the Top Rank back to back terrible ratings. Really other then 1 or maybe 2 cards the entire 2019 ratings have been pretty bad for ESPN.

[IMDAZED]

All of these deals are tanking (DAZN, ESPN, FOX, Showtime) because the fights are not what anyone wants to see. They are usually one-sided fights put on by organizations that don't have enough talent to do competitive in-house fights for a full year's programming. Hardly any of these fights lead to other interesting fights either because the talent pool is now spread out too much between the three warring factions.

Until these guys wake up and work together to form a league and pool their talent like the NFL, NBA, PGA or ATP - we're going to get mostly crap fights, low ratings and all of these deals will fail.

I love this sport and I want these deals to succeed, but the writing's on the wall if they don't get it together.

There is nothing to suggest the FOX and DAZN deals are tanking.

[KTFOKING]

All of these deals are tanking (DAZN, ESPN, FOX, Showtime) because the fights are not what anyone wants to see. They are usually one-sided fights put on by organizations that don't have enough talent to do competitive in-house fights for a full year's programming. Hardly any of these fights lead to other interesting fights either because the talent pool is now spread out too much between the three warring factions.

Until these guys wake up and work together to form a league and pool their talent like the NFL, NBA, PGA or ATP - we're going to get mostly crap fights, low ratings and all of these deals will fail.

I love this sport and I want these deals to succeed, but the writing's on the wall if they don't get it together.

Kurt Emhoff is that you? Love your podcast! One of the best ones currently out there for boxing. I know you are a big believer of boxing creating a league but just don't ever see that happening.

[PRchamp]

All of these deals are tanking (DAZN, ESPN, FOX, Showtime) because the fights are not what anyone wants to see. They are usually one-sided fights put on by organizations that don't have enough talent to do competitive in-house fights for a full year's programming. Hardly any of these fights lead to other interesting fights either because the talent pool is now spread out too much between the three warring factions.

Until these guys wake up and work together to form a league and pool their talent like the NFL, NBA, PGA or ATP - we're going to get mostly crap fights, low ratings and all of these deals will fail.

I love this sport and I want these deals to succeed, but the writing's on the wall if they don't get it together.

Good post. I always wanted boxing to have a commissioner so they can make the fights without hesitation.

Make the big fights and the $$$ will come along but I feel these promoters are scared to take risk these days and are more than happy to just show one sided fights since these dumb network execs keep paying them for it.

How hard is it for for ESPN to tell Arum if you don’t make these fights we aren’t interested.

[sicko]

Give them a chance they are 9 months in

DAZN is a Excellent APP 100x better than ESPN+ but we cannot be naive as far as what they're up against here in the US. They will never be able to catch up to ESPN...EVER!

[pillowfists98]

Arum must be under pressure. I like the Crawford vs Khan card but that **** is going to flop on PPV.