Almost half of the crowd just left after Paul-Gib. Main event hasnt even started lmao

[Motorcity Cobra]

Yes. All 257K viewers had a blast. Cash cow Charlo.

Andrade would be lucky to get that. People leaving after the fight already tells you people watching the fight stopped watching after the YouTubers. Charlo can fight Canelo, Dervychenko, or Eubank Jr. Andrade isn't getting none of those fights or GGG or Munguia. I'm not telling you what I think. I'm telling you what I know

[sicko]

Predicted that as soon as they announced this card

Harsh reality is that you're NEVER going to convert those fans of those youtubers into full time boxing but then also too so far the fighters are FAILING to impress in front of new Audience. Instead of blowing guys out they're boring the new Audience with Decisions

So yeah 95% of the Crowd was only their for Jake Paul and GIB and not for the Pro Fighters

[Sweet Scions]

Bad comparison because YouTube fighters would never be on a Canelo-GGG card and you know that. But there is an opportunity to defend Hearn / DAZN, you cant help yourself

I made that comparison and it was hyperbole to make a point, that being last night was less about Andrade's status as a viable draw or Hearn's competence and more about the nature of the event and audience. The pertinent question is what hypothetical fight(s) wouldn't have resulted in a mass exodus from a non-boxing crowd mostly there for youtube stars. A precious select few, none of which would be on the same bill anyway as you say.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Remember when guys here thought throwing large amounts of money at fighters would bring in more fans? Lmao. I do. It’s proven that it does not work. It’s had the opposite effect and even worse. You have fighters now turning down career high paydays because they think they deserve even more and refuse to take on the best challenges. That’s why boxing is now turning to damn YouTubers for fights. Fans can only blame themselves for supporting boxers hiding behind the business aspect of it.

[OnePunch]

Bad comparison because YouTube fighters would never be on a Canelo-GGG card and you know that. But there is an opportunity to defend Hearn / DAZN, you cant help yourself

Im not defending Hearn. As a matter of fact he should have his head examined for taking a show to Miami. Its a garbage town for fights. So unless he got a big site fee from someone, it was a huge mistake......

[OnePunch]

Every city at this point is a terrible fight town. Look at how many showed to support Julian Williams in Philly a couple of weeks ago and Philly is “fight town” FOH with that man.

I was there live last night and after the Paul-Gib fight like 600 young kids just started to follow KSI like he was the pope out the arena. Wilder-fury could of went next and those YouTube kids still would of left.

Don’t give miami a bad name it’s the state of boxing, dying sport like Jai Alai and dog racing at this point

cmon man, ATL just did 12,000 and a $2 mil gate. I know you're a south florida guy, but facts are facts. Rivalta is a competent guy, with deep pockets behind him, and even he couldnt make it work down there. He tried the heavyweight shows, he tried cubans vs dominicans, he tried everything. Miami just aint that into us........lol

[LA_2_Vegas]

I made that comparison and it was hyperbole to make a point, that being last night was less about Andrade's status as a viable draw or Hearn's competence and more about the nature of the event and audience. The pertinent question is what hypothetical fight(s) wouldn't have resulted in a mass exodus from a non-boxing crowd mostly there for youtube stars. A precious select few, none of which would be on the same bill anyway as you say.

It won't happen overnight....but I think it will likely be someone who makes some noise while appearing on these cards a couple of times. It's the same thing that happens on local live cards. They get people in teh door with some special attraction grudge match, but the other guys the promoters wants you to see will be a staple on those cards...slowly working his way up until they are also familiar with him.


Someone like Haney, who is young and can related and live in between both worlds.... it's not going to be an orthodox way to bring up a fighter, but if it works it will be good for him to have a whole other market to draw from. I'm not advocating for more youtube fights, but they are paying the bills basically....and I got to see Diaz get another title shot and winning it was pretty cool for a Thursday night

[PAC-BOY]

Dazn is wasting money on Andrade he's not a draw and people don't like to watch his style. Half of the crowd is gone before the main event for god's sake when has it ever happened in the history of boxing ?

No thats not true. I was there through out the fight. Nobody left that i could see.

[Sweet Scions]

It won't happen overnight....but I think it will likely be someone who makes some noise while appearing on these cards a couple of times. It's the same thing that happens on local live cards. They get people in teh door with some special attraction grudge match, but the other guys the promoters wants you to see will be a staple on those cards...slowly working his way up until they are also familiar with him.


Someone like Haney, who is young and can related and live in between both worlds.... it's not going to be an orthodox way to bring up a fighter, but if it works it will be good for him to have a whole other market to draw from. I'm not advocating for more youtube fights, but they are paying the bills basically....and I got to see Diaz get another title shot and winning it was pretty cool for a Thursday night

I completely agree, and definitely meant what fights right this minute would keep a flock of post-millennials from following Jake Paul out of the building pied piper style, lol. It's why, while I treat these charades with the appropriate level of respect and attention (none), I'm also not vehemently opposed. Is Hearn (or any other promotion that might decide to dip their feet in this cringe) capitalizing on some superficial celeb smackdowns that essentially sell themselves with minimal formal marketing and backed by the full weight of the internet really any more audacious than the myriad of other flagrant business-first BS promoters/strap factories/fighters themselves have been subjecting fans to for decades? How much further can we be bent over than we already are?

So while the actual degree of success this kind of circus will have in delivering the ancillary benefit of cultivating interest in the sport with the current generation isn't yet known (and is maybe even very much in doubt), it at least presents that possibility, whereas a surge of new interest amongst the youth clearly isn't any likelier to happen without this sideshow energy drink BS...so why the **** not? So open the floodgates for all I care, so long as the worthy talent that matters gets stage time in exchange. Cringe aside, I see only how it can help, not how it can actively hurt or push a sport that is already languishing on the fringes any further into obscurity.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Im not defending Hearn. As a matter of fact he should have his head examined for taking a show to Miami. Its a garbage town for fights. So unless he got a big site fee from someone, it was a huge mistake......

It wasn't a bad decision for DAZN. It's Superbowl week. The majority of the US sports press is in town. It's good for marketing DAZN.