Matchroom Inks Eight Year Content Deal With DAZN Canada

[Ruthless-RKO]

DAZN, the live and on-demand sports streaming platform, announced today that it has signed an eight-year distribution deal with Matchroom Boxing USA, a world-leading boxing promoter, to exclusively deliver a series of fight nights along with original programming on DAZN Canada.

DAZN Canada plans to broadcast 16 live fight nights through August 2019, beginning with the Jessie Vargas vs. Thomas Dulorme card on Oct. 6, 2018 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago and Oct. 20, 2018, when Billy Joe Saunders defends his middleweight title against Demetrius Andrade at TD Garden in Boston.

DAZN will also produce original programming that viewers can watch ahead of and following fights.

https://www.BS.com/matchroom-i ... da--132165

[SenorPipino]

Does DAZN release viewership figures, or are they like the ESPN + app?

Secrecy.

Curious as to how Joshua-Povetkin fared in the US.

[chad]

Does DAZN release viewership figures, or are they like the ESPN + app?

Secrecy.

Curious as to how Joshua-Povetkin fared in the US.

ESPN+ have achieved 1 million paying subscribers in just 5 months.

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2018/09 ... ve-months/

Not viewing figures I know but it's an impressive start. How many of the subscribers watch the boxing is anyone's guess.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Does DAZN release viewership figures, or are they like the ESPN + app?

Secrecy.

Curious as to how Joshua-Povetkin fared in the US.

Doubt they’ll release how many viewers tuned in but yeh, like Senor said. They’ll say they hae certain amount of subscribers.