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Well I really hope you are right. It would be nice if they could do more of a UFC type of a thing where DAZN becomes the company where the best fighters go to and you have smaller places where less stellar fighters fight. I just don’t see that happening.

Yeh.... that may be the direction we're moving toward. Doesn't mean it's good for boxing nor the fans. Boxing will have completely transitioned from a grand sporting event to something you stream on your computer screen. Boxing without all the bells and whistles. Hopefully there will always be a spot for ESPN in the boxing world.
Well MMA has UFC which is the best. It also has Belator, One, Pride, etc which produce good fighters. Most of the best join the UFC eventually. The main downfall with that is that sometimes fighters don’t make the transition so you end up with a lot of what ifs (even more so than boxing has now).

I think that boxing could do something similar and things like ESPN and PBC could have lower cars fighters (like FNFs or things like shobox). Good fighters could make the transition so that DAZN (in this case) only has the absolute best fighters which would only produce the best fights because no top fighter could make a bad fight because there aren’t that many people in each division

I'll be honest. What's to stop DAZN from stopping there and not swallowing up ESPN boxing also. If the purpose is to have an absolute monopoly and force people to watch all boxing on that platform, what is there to prevent it. TV networks are obviously and slowly going away from boxing as a viable sport. HBO did it.... Showtime will probably soon follow suit.... and ESPN certainly doesn't need boxing when it's got its huge sports platform with every sport under the sun. DAZN will eventually control all of boxing, and will be free to call the shots. Sure... it can afford to be generous with pricing now. But once it's got the bull by the horns what's to keep it from raising subscription prices at will.