The Sports Business Journal (subscription required) reports that Fox Sports and Golden Boy Promotions have struck a deal for boxing to be on the new Fox Sports 1 Network. The deal goes through 2015 with an option for 2016.
Although no official numbers were divulged, it is believed the rights fees to be $100,000 per show. FS1 will carry a Monday night boxing series with 24 episodes per year. The deal also includes 24 shows on Fox Deportes to be held Saturday nights from Mexico.
Golden Boy signed a multiyear deal reported to be in the six figure range with Fox Sports Media Group last year in which the promotion had 12 shows divided between Fuel TV and Fox Sports Net.
Golden Boy has already secured Corona as lead sponsor for the series.
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The move shows Fox’s commitment to combat sports as it has the UFC as one of its anchors to the new FS1. The addition of boxing means more combat sports content for viewers. This deal is much better than Golden Boy’s previous situation as the Fox Sports Media deal had GBP’s shows on at odd times and on delay on Fox’s regional sports networks. In this deal, its believed that there would be consistent times for the shows.
I’m liking this Fox Sports 1 channel already. It will take years before they even begin to sniff ESPN type ratings but it sounds like they’re committed. It will be a welcome change to stop missing much of boxing due to not having HBO or Showtime.
Good news, more combat sports the better.
Of course they wont be putting on big fights on FS1, this is more like prospect type fights but its still good to see.
Don’t expect much from Golden Boy since they are married to Showtime.
Fox is putting leverage on UFC…with tuf continues to go down in ratings even with huge advertising and fox s mainsteam media appeal.fox is making a satement to the ufc shape up or else lol…
WTF are you talking about Tops?
And I actually agree with Simple Sampson, this is basically just a prospect show for GB/FS, the really big stars and big fights from GB will be on Showtime. This is just getting GB on a new network as their minor league fights to build future stars for Showtime cards.
Still its a good move for GB and FS1.
LOL Taps is reading to much into this. FS1 is only fixing the problem they had with Fuel. That is the UFC programs being surrounded by stuff that doesn’t interest the MMA fan base. The only time Fuel had good ratings for a day was when they showed UFC live events and constant coverage. All the other programs were bookended by stuff that pushed the UFC fans to another channel like X games sports. Now they are putting some combat sports on to keep fans and have products that cant cross promote. Boxing and MMA have cross over fans. MMA and “Pinks all out” or “Pass time” or “Strangers in Danger” not so much.
It will be nice when the UFC comes on if the network has more than 0 viewers as a lead in.
If boxing does similar ratings to the UFC when the budget is 10% of what the UFC gets, we could see a shift if fund allocations.
Do you actually believe the shit you say Sampson or do you just say the dumbest shit possible to get a reaction?
Cant figure out if you are really that dumb or you are just trolling everyone?
Brainsmasher was waiting for your defense attorney arguments on the tuf ratings…lol..
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