What does a post-Bob Arum boxing world look like?

[TAPugil]

Scandal-less

[Kirkland Laing]

Every other sport, either team or individual sports, benefits from some kind of structure. The difference with professional boxing, like it or not, is that it all stems from blokes putting their money up to finance fights. You're looking at a bunch of businessmen generally from the shady/sketchy part of town who are behind the whole thing. The current setup with multiple sanctioning bodies etc has evolved to serve the people at the top of the tree, who are the promoters. These promoters don't own a franchise like the Cowboys or the Lakers that are a guaranteed year after year money earner. They're a bunch of guys financing individual guys who are all only a punch away from being a losing investment.

Bearing that in mind you can see how boxing is kinda resistant to any kind of unified organisation. The closest you could really hope for is somebody being able to sign up enough top boxers to be able to UFCise the whole thing but then you have the Muhammad Ali Act and various other things working against any kind of setup like that. See what happens to UFC if the fighters manage to get the Muhammad Ali Act and other regulation to apply to them too. The bottom line is it's always going to come down to individual blokes in suits putting their money up to promote sportsmen with a limited shelf life and anybody wanting to be a successful promoter isn't thinking about the long term future of boxing, they're thinking about making money, and there's no getting past that.

[greynotsoold]

Top Rank and ESPN just signed a 7 year deal, for 54 shows per year.

[holmcall]

Somewhat more honest---somewhat

[Fenster]

It'll look like it does now.

How many of you Americans are buying the new boxing stream Danz? 32 shows per year plus the entire Super Series for $10 a month? I know most of you don't watch boxing outside the States but 16 shows are there and the Super Series has some American names you might recognise.

Anyone interested in paying to watch for regular boxing or prefer to buy one off fights like Floyd and McGregor?

[smashup]

I'm gonna start using DAZN... it's do-able living in the UK with a bit of clever VPN usage and you also need an email/billing ip address that's from one of the handful of countries they are currently available in. (Germany as an example)
It's a cracking deal for the price and like Netflix you can just use it month by month so your not tied down to any long contracts.

Some links with info on how to do it here 😎

https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-servi...IaAuzIEALw_wcB


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