DAZN Hits The Brazilian Market This Weekend

[Ruthless-RKO]

The sixth edition of “Boxing For You” will be the first boxing event in Latin America to be aired by the streaming company.

The “Boxing For You VI”, being staged by the biggest promotional company in Brazil, will be the first fighting event broadcasted from Latin America by DAZN.

The OTT giant will split the broadcasting rights of the upcoming show, on August 11th, with the three biggest cable sports channels in Brazil.

It’s the first incursion of DAZN in the Brazilian market and it will start with a bang as Brazilian star, Adriana Araujo (3-0, 1 KO’s) fights for the female Latino WBC super lightweight title against Argentinean Yamila Abellaneda (6-3, 3 KO’s) in the main event.

Araujo is an idol in Brazil since bringing home the Bronze medal in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Alongside with Yamaguchi and EsquivaFalcao, Arajuno broke Brazil's 44 year curse, which the country suffered by being unable to conquer an Olympic medal in boxing.

Adriana, who’s big punch knocked down the likes of Katie Taylor as an amateur (in 2010, even though she lost a 16-10 decision), tried to repeat the glory in the 2016 Rio games, but failed, and then turned pro in 2017. She always fought under the “Boxing For You” brand, and is pursuing a world title shot already for this year, calling out Jessica McCaskill, the WBC/WBA champion of her division.

In the co-main event, Robson Conceicao’s stablemate, Robenilson De Jesus (2-0), who took part in three editions of the Olympics and was the Military Games world champion before going pro, will take on Chilean Robinson Lavinanza (13-4-2, 5 KO’s) in an eight round, super bantamweight bout. If he wins, Robenilson is due to go after the Latin title.

The undercard contains five more fights, with some of the best prospects in the country. BSM Group control “Boxing For You” and has a longtime plan for those young fighters, trying to bring up some new names to the same level as Acelino “Popo” Freitas and Eder Jofre.

In the last edition of their fight series, they brought in Top Rank promoted Olympic medalists Esquiva Falcao and Robson Conceicao as the headliners in a ring mounted by the sea in Portobello Resort & Safari, which generated a lot of attention from the local and international media.

The “Boxing For You VI” will take place at the Arena de Lutas Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo.

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[Onetimeonly]

The booming Brazilian boxing market is a massive get for dazn. The takeover is real!

[TheBeast]

Terrible card to start doing so... Last week's Mike Miranda's card was better than this one... I understand that they want ties with BSM which has rights to conceicao and Falcao... which is prob what they are after although they co promoted these guys with top rank which is not with DAZN...

There have been some good cards through the last few years, mostly headlined by Michael Oliveira and then theFreitas comeback who derailed the Oliveira momentum... All those cards were much better than this one which is one of the worse card in Brazil this year... It's more a question of establishing ties with people in Brazil and that it was already being produced and broadcasted in brazil because of the same reason.

[imaioral]

I follow the Brazilian amateur and pro boxing background and I tell you that in the amateur elite categories, there are big investments by private companies and government (Lima Pan-American shows that)... but in pro, it is very poor, because the lack of investment, disclosure, notoriety and media in general. There are many, but many good amateur boxers, Olympic, World and Pan-American medalists that people and the media don't give a shit to support them when turn pro and mostly fall into oblivion, to not say the managers and/or promoters profiteers who abuse the ingenuity of boxers.

This event it is being made at a mediocre place because the known faces like gold medalist Robson Conceição and Olympics medalist Irmãos Falcão (Falcon Brothers) are not going to fight there, but I leave the suggestion to look the 2 main bouts with Olypian Medallist Adriana Araujo and (IMO) mainly at Robenilson de Jesus, 3x Olympian (lost all 3 in quarterfinals), Bronze Pan-American Medalist, Gold Medallist on Military Games and I think Bronze in World Championship, a top and technical boxer (even technically better then gold medalist Robson Conceição) whom is having few eyes over him. I heard last year that Crawford's trainer BoMac had an interest in training him, but there wasn't a single individual in Brazil to sponsor Robenilson to live and train in USA.

[TheBeast]

Sunday 11, August 2019
Arena de Lutas, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

heavy
Igor Adiel Macedo da Silva 6 0 0
vs
Marcelo de Souza Cruz 1 1 0

Igor won by 2nd round TKO
Marcelo down twice in round 1 & once in round 2



Very poor card as expected... Undercard was overmatched but entertaining... The two top matchups were poor displays.. Robenilson clearly has talent and can be evasive... but besides a few glimpses, can't say it was a strong performance... Adriana looks more like a man and has talent... just fought in short sequences... stamina is an issue for her.


FULL CARD HIGHLIGHTS HERE:
https://www.the13thround.com/phpBB2/vie ... 8&t=130711


ENJOY!!

[imaioral]

Very poor card as expected... Undercard was overmatched but entertaining... The two top matchups were poor displays.. Robenilson clearly has talent and can be evasive... but besides a few glimpses, can't say it was a strong performance... Adriana looks more like a man and has talent... just fought in short sequences... stamina is an issue for her.

It was an entertaining event, it did its job, I liked but one have to see that there were many early career fighters, half were hardworking in their performance showing that they have potential and can develop more and bring a better performance in next events against tougher opponents. You can't blame or point it as being just poor without a decent argument, 90% of events in boxrec schedule are poor if you take in this point of view since most are no star rated, to not say that at least 1/3 (beyond not being rated), have veterans with awful resume or bottom feeders.

About the winners (from first to main bout):

- Juscelino Bonifacio Pantoja, did ok, has potential.
- Nathann Ramatis Siqueira, were a bit lucky, has a clumsy style, has to work much more to improve.
- Pedro Henrique, brought trouble to Fernando, tough fight to point and for both. Pedro almost did ok, has to improve his general technique.
- Igor Adiel, did ok, gave around 30% of his full capability, has potential to be national champion and to give trouble in Latin America HW.
- Eduardo Costa, was patient e did almost ok vs desperate Roger Giovane (whom was way better in last event)
- Robenilson de Jesus, did ok, his overall performance was good, had cardio for 12 rds, almost schooled his opponent (who barely landed decent shots), he gave around 40% of his full capability, has potential to be national champion to Latin American champion at FW. Possibly it will be set the toughest Brazil's FW opponent for Robenilson soon for WBC Silver Latino (Antonio Paulo Soares).
- Adriana dos Santos, did ok, her overall performance was good, she gave around 60% of her capability, has a strong man like boxing style and very aggressive. I think she didn't expect going all 10 rds, has to develop cardio a bit more and care about weight gain. At her age, with so few bouts, it's impressive how good overall she is, has potential to give trouble or win half of Top4 SLW Latin American female boxers.