Eddie hearn set to announce major u.s. Streaming partnership with dazn

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Sky Sports will broadcast 16 live and exclusive fight nights a year from the United States as part of a new deal with long-term partners Matchroom Boxing.
The new agreement means that, in addition to the best of British boxing, Sky Sports viewers will enjoy fights from some of the biggest names in boxing from some of the most iconic venues across America, with more access to fighters, exclusive interviews, blogs and podcasts, available across all Sky Sports platforms.
Fight nights will be scheduled to begin at 6pm US time, meaning the action will kick off at 11pm in the UK when fights are scheduled on the East Coast. Up to six fights will be scheduled on every bill.

http://www.skysports.com/boxing/news/12183/11366623/sky-sports-boxing-to-show-16-more-us-fights-per-year-with-matchroom-boxing

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Somehow everything is going to have to run together. You can’t expect fight fans to get HBO, Showtime, ESPN+ and now this new Hearn thing. I love the idea of it, but we need to get rid of HBO and Showtime and pay specifically for boxing fights.

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HBO and Showtime can't compete with this long term, this is the future of Sports viewing just like Netflix or Amazon Prime is for Movies and Boxsets.

Eddie Hearn is gonna sign up all the best fighters in the world and has the budget and platform to do so.

This is HUGE news for the future of Boxing and this is an 8 year deal that will simply blow the competition out the water in time

[palmerq]

Aha good, I already have dazn, this should put more stuff ton the Canadian version too... They already had joshua parker on there and a few more.

[powerpuncher]

HBO and Showtime can't compete with this long term, this is the future of Sports viewing just like Netflix or Amazon Prime is for Movies and Boxsets.

Eddie Hearn is gonna sign up all the best fighters in the world and has the budget and platform to do so.

This is HUGE news for the future of Boxing and this is an 8 year deal that will simply blow the competition out the water in time

I really hope so. It would make boxing much more accessible and more fights around the world accessible.

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[Ron Swanson]

Sounds good as long as the right fights are made

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Wilder, Spence. Garcia, Charlo, Thurman.....

These are just a few of the fighters from the US that currently are not tied to any promotional deals so i'd expect Hearn to sign up the majority of these in the coming weeks.

Also Anthony Joshua is now a free agent in the US and Dazn/Perform Group will simply outbid any other US offers and snap him up as well (I'd be amazed if that isn't announced soon)

Hope Hearn signs up Wilder too so the fight gets made

If your a World class fighter and a free agent you'd be a fool not to wanna be a part of this especially knowing they have more finance to throw at fights than HBO and Showtime combined.

Hearn has just moved the goalposts big time