I have the answer for motivating Adrien Broner.

[PAC-BOY]

Anytime Floyd fights, he has a 'hit company' whose job is to do takedowns of illegal streams. It's Whack-a-Mole, but the Pacquiao fight was the most efficient whacking I've ever seen.

Against Berto he just didn't care. He only did that fight as the last on his contract and to help a brotha.

Tenshin wasn't even shown in the states.

McGregor fight, the UFC was blocking streams, but their focus on illegal streamers ended up causing issues for the legit ones.

There will always be illegal streaming, but they are the exception, and if/when Floyd Mayweather gets back in the ring, he'll still pull more legit paying customers than any of the current stars, even Joshua. Easily.

yeah then. But do you think there are more sites now than before? I do. thousands more. I know i got a few that never get hit and always up and running. Then instantly up again if down with a back up. There are so many now a days. I really dont see how they are gonna stop it as of yet.

[anonymous2.0]

Here's the real answer for motivating Broner, if he wins he gets one of these:

[PAC-BOY]

There are more sites. But those sites have to be using a legal source.

What the broadcasters are doing is embedding codes into the stream itself - which allows then to find wherever it's being streamed out and cut it at the source. So that's one. DAZN does that, they used the same code as Showtime and ESPN. And I know very well this technology because it's part of what I do for a living.

On the other half you have the actual internet providers. The content owner tells all of the internet providers to look for certain content signatures. It's how they know whether you've downloaded something via ******* or not despite having VPN active.

In other words, they won't get everyone. But they will get a lot and for the most part, Mayweather's setup does a masterful job at catching the vast majority once they start streaming.

The other fighters don't pull enough revenue to spend time on it, so they'll gladly let Crawford's fights get illegally streamed because he's not a draw.

Im guessing thats why by time the main event comes on we start having issues? I went through that before. I did get a little issue with Wilder Fury2 but i also have a long list of urls on sites that stream. I was able to catch another that was smooth. Its a pain in the ass for sure. Some fights i dont wanna waste the money on because i know wth is gonna happen in some cases. Fights like Spence vs Crawford id pay for Manny vs either . Cant really say im overly excited to pay 80 plus bucks for a charlo fight or Tank fight. lol