Anthony Joshua ditches Sky Sports and signs eight-figure deal with DAZN

[Master]

This means that AJ will fight on regardless of the result against Usyk. He wins he will defend against anyone except Fury for as long as he can get away with it.

If AJ loses he will rebuild on DAZN platform with even easier fights.

AJ is a quality fighter but has been manufactured by SKY and Matchroom to be a global star but he is not made from the same cloth as Tyson Fury.

[Mark TKO]

so this will be a 2 fight deal then max

[zoley]

so this will be a 2 fight deal then max

🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍

[Spicoli]

So I guess Usyk needs a ko now . A whole new meaning to house fighter. Always good to think long term for a fighter but odd for Dazn who already seems to hemorrhage money. And you can't just assume a fighter already on the edge will carry on after another convincing loss at the highest level. And what does that do for the mindset and motivation of AJ if you are guaranteed millions for "easy opponents" down the road.

[Kirkland Laing]

Alvarez signed a deal like this with the same company but was able to opt out of it. I'm sure there would have been opt outs for the streaming people too. Hard not to think they have something similar here. If Joshua manages to get beaten up and stopped or sparked in the rematch he loses an awful lot of value. He's just an ex champion then and the biggest thing he has going for him is he's British and could be in a huge fight with Fury. But that's a huge fight in Britain. In America, where this streaming company really have designs on making inroads, he's just an ex champ with two defeats against smaller guys, one of whom resembled the Michelin Man. He could fight Wilder if Wilder fights again but that would be two damaged goods ex champs in a probable nontitle bout. Fun fight to watch but not a huge PPV event.

No specific number mentioned in the article. Eight figures is ten million pounds or one big fight and they're saying eight figures over three to five years. Hard to see any significant sum being guaranteed and lots of opt out options and renegotiation possible depending on future results I would guess.