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I don’t know a single person who subscribes to DAZN. Surely they must have a big plan up their sleeve to coincide with the price increase?

garethhop wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 19:51 I don’t know a single person who subscribes to DAZN. Surely they must have a big plan up their sleeve to coincide with the price increase?

Big plan is to wait and hope people dont notice when they up the price.... get people on 2 quid a month, keep it going for a few months, people gradualy forget about it, up it to 10 a month, Fans keep it, casuals on the ball unsubscribe, Casuals not paying attention pay for 2 year befor relising they have dropped 250 quid on a streaming servis they never use.

Despite getting home well in time to stream this, pissed, I didn't even bother watching it for free, let alone subscribe to DAZN. Don't care who won.

I love boxing, otherwise I wouldn't post on here. But this didn't tickle my pickle in the slightest.

They're just midgets aren't they? I could grab hold of either one and squeeze him until his ribcage cracked.

Not interested.

Cyclops wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 20:09 Despite getting home well in time to stream this, pissed, I didn't even bother watching it for free, let alone subscribe to DAZN. Don't care who won.

I love boxing, otherwise I wouldn't post on here. But this didn't tickle my pickle in the slightest.

They're just midgets aren't they? I could grab hold of either one and squeeze him until his ribcage cracked.

Not interested.

Was 3 heavyweight fights on the card to be fair.

garethhop wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 19:51 I don’t know a single person who subscribes to DAZN. Surely they must have a big plan up their sleeve to coincide with the price increase?

They only have 1 show per month September and October.

Can't see how a price increase is realistic. There is zero other content. Unless they have the Serie A rights I'm unsure why price would increase. Even the Canelo fight is off.

gregregegg wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 21:12

Cyclops wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 20:09 Despite getting home well in time to stream this, pissed, I didn't even bother watching it for free, let alone subscribe to DAZN. Don't care who won.

I love boxing, otherwise I wouldn't post on here. But this didn't tickle my pickle in the slightest.

They're just midgets aren't they? I could grab hold of either one and squeeze him until his ribcage cracked.

Not interested.

Was 3 heavyweight fights on the card to be fair.

I didn't know that. To be fair, I've become much more of a 'casual' since COVID-19. I went to the Joyce-Takam fight and got upgraded to ringside, but even then it still felt uncomfortable in a weird way and I didn't even try and get tickets for AJ-Usyk although I'd love to see them both live: I'd rather just stay in and watch the fights these days, unless it's Joyce who I'm a cheerleader for or the mythical AJ-Fury fight, which I'll pay through the nose for.

Did I miss anything?

Cyclops wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 21:30

gregregegg wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 21:12

Cyclops wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 20:09 Despite getting home well in time to stream this, pissed, I didn't even bother watching it for free, let alone subscribe to DAZN. Don't care who won.

I love boxing, otherwise I wouldn't post on here. But this didn't tickle my pickle in the slightest.

They're just midgets aren't they? I could grab hold of either one and squeeze him until his ribcage cracked.

Not interested.

Was 3 heavyweight fights on the card to be fair.

I didn't know that. To be fair, I've become much more of a 'casual' since COVID-19. I went to the Joyce-Takam fight and got upgraded to ringside, but even then it still felt uncomfortable in a weird way and I didn't even try and get tickets for AJ-Usyk although I'd love to see them both live: I'd rather just stay in and watch the fights these days, unless it's Joyce who I'm a cheerleader for or the mythical AJ-Fury fight, which I'll pay through the nose for.

Did I miss anything?

You missed the fact that you are a big lad that can crush smaller guys ribcages after you had a few beers. Congratulations boxing fan.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 21:54

Very nice edit

i didnt edit that post at all my man

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 22:36 i didnt edit that post at all my man

OK Mr Boxrec.....all over the site.....

damn straight

good on ya fella..... you are passionate like Ben

BTW the 'Kid' had all the tools that are pure boxing quick feet and hands against a top strong quality fighter..... good contest.....doubt 'Kid' will be elite but boxing is deep.

Galahad was very good last night. Great work rate which very likely added to the lack of spite in the punches; it would have been nice to have seen him slip in the occasional heavy punch, and he did get caught by some eye catching punches which seemed to influence things more than they should have .. was it the 7th round Dickens landed a nice 3 punch combo? That's just about all he landed in that round, but Lee gave him the round. I only had Dickens sharing 2 or 3 rounds. Very brave man.

Again, the quality of the show was very weak. Laura is very pretty .. and that's about it; not sure what else she is there for? The amount of times she has her hands in her pockets I think emphasises that she too not got much idea what her actual role is .. basically a talked round card girl is my guess.

Quite bizarre the Bellend & Dillian section .. like a amphetamine induced psychotic episode .. slumped in chairs .. speaking a mystery language .. and one of them wearing a bucket hat made out of an OAPs swimming costume.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 17:56 Laura said, world title around your belt.

I noticed that.

peter barlow wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 18:24 Ade Oladipo could present it, hes already doing the boxing show. Tbh I don't like listening to Bellew, so I wont be listening to the analysis or Dazn boxing show.

Just because hes friends with Hearn hes the main pundit. Theres any number of other pundits they could have used.

I agree Bellew was often biased when he was on Sky. He wasn’t biased last night and I’m sure he knew there’d be people wanting to jump on him if he showed any favouritism.

He was fine last night. Offered decent insight.

BigEars wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 18:36

maverick23 wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 17:56 I didn’t see last week’s show but I’ve enjoyed tonight’s show. The main event was good quality and the Babic fight was really fun, as was the 1 round Wardley fight. I also liked the Fiaz fight on YouTube.

Re: production I thought everyone did well except I thought Andy Lee was a bit too quiet.

Jama was fine, Bellew/Warrington both pretty good. Chris Lloyd is a very good commentator I think with loads of potential. Darren Barker needs to improve - I’ve always liked him as a bloke though. Laura Woods is very good. Also I liked the fact they roped Joyce and Dillian in too.

It’s good how few adverts they had and whilst it isn’t radically different from Sky I thought production/content wise it was very good and ran very smoothly. It’s not easy doing 4 hours of live TV without many adverts.

A good idea might be to have more floater bouts available to put on between some of the main fights if we do get an early stoppage.
Some of the gaps between the fights just felt very long, with a lot of forced analysis and chat to keep things going.

Would be much easier just to have an up and comer in the ring in a 4 or 6 rounder instead.
Or even throw in area level guys (or just below) in 6 rounders in competitive fights with each other, with the promise they'll be shown on the feed at some point (after the main event if need be).

Yeah - I don’t disagree. 6 fights was on the short side. Another one or two and using one as a float would help. Saying that I thought they filled the gaps well and as I said previously they don’t have the benefit of going to 4 minutes of ads to waste time.

peter barlow wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 17:43

MasterG wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 16:29

peter barlow wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 16:28 Problem with that stoppage is we just had Mark Bennett take a million punches in the fight before where he had no hope of winning.

But Webb took a fair few flush shots and did not throw back. Should have had a count imo

Bennett didn't go down. He fought like a man

He did but he took too much punishment, I hope he is okay and been checked on.

Spoke to Bennett this morning, he's fine just gutted and realises that 2 years out of the ring didn't help matters.

garethhop wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 19:51 I don’t know a single person who subscribes to DAZN. Surely they must have a big plan up their sleeve to coincide with the price increase?

They’ve timed it poorly with it coinciding with the Olympics. They still need a linear TV partner to promote the fights.

I know a few casuals that have subscribed but they did it for the Canelo/BJS show - not these U.K. ones.

Cyclops wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 20:09 Despite getting home well in time to stream this, pissed, I didn't even bother watching it for free, let alone subscribe to DAZN. Don't care who won.

I love boxing, otherwise I wouldn't post on here. But this didn't tickle my pickle in the slightest.

They're just midgets aren't they? I could grab hold of either one and squeeze him until his ribcage cracked.

Not interested.

By the sound of things you’d have liked the 3 heavyweight fights on before the main event.

peter barlow wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 21:29

garethhop wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 19:51 I don’t know a single person who subscribes to DAZN. Surely they must have a big plan up their sleeve to coincide with the price increase?

They only have 1 show per month September and October.

Can't see how a price increase is realistic. There is zero other content. Unless they have the Serie A rights I'm unsure why price would increase. Even the Canelo fight is off.

There will be more shows than one a month in September and October - they may not be in the U.K. though.

Next week we’ve got the Buatsi card and also the Golden Boy show with a really strong main event.

MasterG wrote: ↑08 Aug 2021, 03:55

peter barlow wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 17:43

MasterG wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 16:29

Bennett didn't go down. He fought like a man

He did but he took too much punishment, I hope he is okay and been checked on.

Spoke to Bennett this morning, he's fine just gutted and realises that 2 years out of the ring didn't help matters.

It did show , he was blowing 30 seconds in , inactivity is probably worst for heavies as they don't have to look after their weight and diet , Brave , brave fella but hoped for more from him .

garethhop wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 19:51 I don’t know a single person who subscribes to DAZN. Surely they must have a big plan up their sleeve to coincide with the price increase?

Gunna go the same way as another certain boxing subscription service probably .

rd350lc wrote: ↑08 Aug 2021, 04:44

garethhop wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 19:51 I don’t know a single person who subscribes to DAZN. Surely they must have a big plan up their sleeve to coincide with the price increase?

Gunna go the same way as another certain boxing subscription service probably .

most likely yes,there just isn't the fan base anymore,people who tune in to watch anyone other than Joshua and very limited,even hardcore fans won't subscribe anymore,well not enough to make these things work.