Comments Thread For: What Will Fans See When Boxing Comes Back?

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By Thomas Hauser - On October 17, 2018, it was announced that DAZN, Canelo Alvarez, and Golden Boy (Alvarez's promoter) had entered into an agreement to stream Canelo's next eleven fights on DAZN platforms throughout the world with DAZN paying a minimum of $365 million for the honor. Thereafter, Bernard Hopkins observed, "Canelo has the money...
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[Bunch Pag]

With deals like this Someone gets burnt at some point. Albeit nobody saw this coming..

I don't know a great deal on DAZN but what I've read isn't great reading..

I'm Just general blabbering here when I say Along with everyone else, they've dropped in a very unfortunate event and lost/losing serious coinage. Contracts are contracts under any normal circumstances but we aren't in a normal circumstance so immediate talks will/could be interesting...

I would like to think that everyone across the board of all companies who are struggling in contracts and the people owed money/future monies could use common sense and realise WE are all in this together and have to work together once this is over to get out of it.. I would think Canelo team has already read contracts back to front a million times and been in dialogue with those involved and not just DAZN.. but we are talking about money here and people show the world the real side to them when that's involved... I mean after all he needs the money to pay for his 19k face mask donation his team want praising for....

It's going to change future deals I'm sure and possibly for the better...

[JonWBA]

I'll tell you what we want. The best fighting the best. Sick off Eddie Hearn hyping up bum after bum, cherry picking their fights so they can be hyped up with what looks on paper to be a great record. The public aren't fickle and this is why he gets booed by fans at his own events. Yeh we wanted to see AJ in big fights in big stadiums, but when he finally steps up he gets BATTERED and we all realise he's a hyped up bum. Shame on you Eddie! At least Wilder and Fury stepped up to the plate...

[Dasmius Shinobi]

I'll tell you what we want. The best fighting the best. Sick off Eddie Hearn hyping up bum after bum, cherry picking their fights so they can be hyped up with what looks on paper to be a great record. The public aren't fickle and this is why he gets booed by fans at his own events. Yeh we wanted to see AJ in big fights in big stadiums, but when he finally steps up he gets BATTERED and we all realise he's a hyped up bum. Shame on you Eddie! At least Wilder and Fury stepped up to the plate...

Negative Red Karma: Next time, respect the boxers who sacrifice for us and don't use belittle names on them. Remember this important lesson well.

[DougalDylan]

One fight on Wilders entire shameful record, previously only fought a shell of Fury and even then Haymon insisted on home advantage twice, what other sport would allow that.

Wilders record shown everything that's wrong with boxing at 20 odd fights when he should have been fighting for titles and sharpening his skills he was fighting guys who hadn't won for years go check boxrec.

If Wilder had been forced to box in those fights you might have had a different result when he came up against a Fury but he robbed the sport.

I'll tell you what we want. The best fighting the best. Sick off Eddie Hearn hyping up bum after bum, cherry picking their fights so they can be hyped up with what looks on paper to be a great record. The public aren't fickle and this is why he gets booed by fans at his own events. Yeh we wanted to see AJ in big fights in big stadiums, but when he finally steps up he gets BATTERED and we all realise he's a hyped up bum. Shame on you Eddie! At least Wilder and Fury stepped up to the plate...

[JonWBA]

Negative Red Karma: Next time, respect the boxers who sacrifice for us and don't use belittle names on them. Remember this important lesson well.

Respect the people who rip us off you mean? Sorry officer but I'm not happy to be conned like the rest of the sheep.

[JonWBA]

One fight on Wilders entire shameful record, previously only fought a shell of Fury and even then Haymon insisted on home advantage twice, what other sport would allow that.

Wilders record shown everything that's wrong with boxing at 20 odd fights when he should have been fighting for titles and sharpening his skills he was fighting guys who hadn't won for years go check boxrec.

If Wilder had been forced to box in those fights you might have had a different result when he came up against a Fury but he robbed the sport.

I somewhat agree but AJ wanted no piece of Wilder. Who was Wilder supposed to fight? Ortiz was an old man but he'd KO most top 20 heavyweights. Also Fury wanted Vegas too, England's full of arseholes coked up to their eyeballs singing sweet Caroline. I'd rather go to Vegas baby!

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Did Hauser just write that Top Rank sells more tickets than it's competitors?

I wonder what he's basing that on. We know Fury vs Wallin was a huge flop with only like 3500 in attendance or something like that.

[Greenfield02]

I have a feeling that all we are going to see is Sh** fights, you already have the first boxing card announced by Top Rank, with Bob saying he was going to announce" high level fights" but what do we get? Stevenson vs some guy ranked like #15 or something like that. Without gate money and guys like Crawford saying they are not going to take a pay cut, it's going to be hard to get top quality fighters to agree to fight, I mean before this we already had guys having a hard time to agreeing to fight each other with crazy amount of money they we're already being offered. During this crisis we are going to find out which fighters love the sport and their fans, and want to please the fight fans, and which fighters are diva's and only care about themselves. I will say I see an interview with Canelo he spoke with a Mexican network where he stated that he understands the magnitude of the situation and he is willing to take a pay cut in order to get good fights, how much of a pay cut? Who knows, or even if that pay cut is something DAZN is going to want to pay since he makes so much, I guess we will find out.

[Smash]

things tend to go back to exactly where they were very quickly after a crisis so thats what will happen with boxing, guys pushing mid 30's will be thinking, ok times running out here too