Comments Thread For: Canelo, Oscar De La Hoya, DAZN Discuss New Mega-Deal

[Vasyl’s dad]

Floyd has made more in his last 3 fights (Pac, Berto, McTapout) ALONE!

Canelo making moves is really bothering you. Why?

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Comments Thread For: Canelo, Oscar De La Hoya, DAZN Discuss New Mega-Deal

Canelo Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) the undisputed king of pay-per-view boxing will usher in a new era in the sport by signing an 11-fight deal with global sports streaming leader DAZN. The journey begins Saturday, Dec. 15 when Canelo makes his first appearance at the historic Madison Square Garden challenging Rocky Fielding (27-1, 15 KOs) for his WBA Super Middleweight World Title. This groundbreaking deal with Canelo will be the richest athlete contract in sports history.
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[bigjavi973]

The problem with these guaranteed contracts is that Canelo can now cherry-pick his opponents from here on out. WBC and the rest of the sanctioning bodies will be happy to accept their fees without enforcing mandatories whether they get it for a Charlo fight or a Fielding type fight. In ten fights he probably fights three opponents we really want to see.

i think since hearn is with dazn we might see canelo fight in the UK imo he would easily fill those places there

[kidbazooka]

Canelo is gonna be filthy rich

[P4Pdunny]

Crazy deal, you got to wonder whether he will take the challenging fights because from his point of view if he's thinking of himself only - he doesn't need to.

[sicko]

John Skipper runs DAZN not Eddie Hearn, it is ZERO mention of Eddie Hearn so why are people giving him Credit?

[filup79]

No more Canelo fights at bars and restaurants. All them bars and restaurants would need to change their model and invest more money on smart tvs, streaming devices, streaming services and a faster internet connection to be able to stream all those tvs simultaneously. Is it really worth it, when they already have a model in place that shows the other more popular sports via the same cable or satellite provider?

[filup79]

$36.5 million per fight for 10 fights sounds like a good deal.

Pretty much on par with what he was making... Will he complete his deal and actually fight all those 10 or 12 fights though?

[OnePunch]

The problem with these guaranteed contracts is that Canelo can now cherry-pick his opponents from here on out. WBC and the rest of the sanctioning bodies will be happy to accept their fees without enforcing mandatories whether they get it for a Charlo fight or a Fielding type fight. In ten fights he probably fights three opponents we really want to see.

No details of the inner workings of the deal have been released. I sincerely doubt that a seasoned sports programmer like Skipper would fall for an okey-doke that would allow Canelo to make $36 million fighting the Fedex guy. I would bet a steak dinner that DAZN has some sort of matchmaking approval on this deal, or the language includes criteria like current champs, top 5 rankings. or mandatory challengers, something to that effect........

[killakali]

I wouldn't have made the bet but, then again, it's not my money at risk.

$10 per month, 12 months in a year. You were able to get Canelo on to the platform, but you're basically looking at needing Canelo to draw 750k people to the platform and keep them there for the full five years to have DAZN cover the outlay for only his deal.

We'll see, I guess

Not really. Other people will come to the platform for Bellator and other fighters. Stop trying to be an armchair accountant.

Good chance Jermall and Jermell head over now too. Get in on that paper. Lets see if GGG goes too. DAZN has Canelo Jacobs and Andrade on lock. If you wanna get paid in the middleweight division DAZN is where you have to go.