Remember when all you bums said DAZN wouldn’t survive more than a year or two

[Dakuwaqa]

And that no one will use an app.

LOL

[BustedKnuckles]

DAZN, with its ****** ppvs, still puts on more cards than everybody else combined. I can live without most of the British cards where they import short Mexicans, or Argentinians with no defense, for their domestic contenders to look good against. But who really competes with DAZN?

They're about to be the only game in town, and the remainder of fights will be split to the four winds of minor channels that show boxing like twice per year.

[niceyboo3]

The 10 dollars a month kind of didn't survive....

[Coverdale]

This sounds like needless promoter cheerleading.

Most of the imbeciles making bold claims about DAZN were doing so based on emotion and poor reasoning skills.

[TMLT87]

I mean, it exists, but it isnt exactly what it was initially envisioned to be. Cheap price, death of PPV etc. Now its pricey as **** with actual PPVs as well.

Everyone else losing their tv deals etc seems more a failure of those promotions than DAZN having success.

[Sheikh]

Want them to do well but as I understand they're losing money. I don't think the boxing model Will Survive for them. Maybe they will be bought out by turkey

[famicommander]

It's like 3X the cost it used to be and now they charge extra for PPVs.

[MulaKO]

And that no one will use an app.

LOL

Dazn got lucky Turki threw money at them and now owns shares in Dazn

[MulaKO]

Want them to do well but as I understand they're losing money. I don't think the boxing model Will Survive for them. Maybe they will be bought out by turkey

Turki has already invested money into Dazn
Imo that is the reason they’re still around

[TintaBoricua]

Dazn got lucky Turki threw money at them and now owns shares in Dazn

^^^THIS.

I don’t think anyone talks enough about this. I remember reading an article not too long ago (I think it was by Thomas Hauser) where it outlined that DAZN had a contract up until a certain year and a higher-up (I can’t remember who exactly…some billionaire) would decide whether to renew their contract or let DAZN whither and die.

That year has come and gone. And a man known as Turki Alalshikh has all of a sudden showed up out of the blue right around the time the DAZN contract was set to expire (2020-2021). My guess is that Hearn reached out to different investors and found Turki, and Turki was offered a ludicrous share of the company or some other kickback in exchange for pumping money into the app.

It started off well, but boxing fans can be fickle and ungrateful.

I don’t think the Times Square debacle falls on Turki. That was more the fighters fighting horrendously than bad matchmaking. The Canelo-Scull fight on the other hand…

I was an early subscriber of DAZN, then left, then came back, then left again, then came back again. But to those that were around on the ground floor, it sure was different. You paid much less, and zero PPV’s.

Now you have to pay more than double annually and PPV isn’t just for “special occasions” as they used to say for damage control when they started putting in PPV’s. PPV involves European fights being behind a paywall for Americans (and vice-verse), Misfits Boxing, Jake Paul fights, etc.

It’s kind of a beautiful mess, but since I’m a boxing degenerate, I do it.