On Wednesday, Dana White posted on IG that he had a big announcement to make. He later retracted the statement saying he had jumped the gun. Could it have been about media rights for Zuffa Boxing? On Thursday, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reported that Netflix will stream MLB Opening Day matchup for the next three […]
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Jake Paul-Tank Davis exhibition moved to Miami
The made-for-Netflix boxing match between Jake Paul and Tank Davis is moving to Miami. The event will take place at the Kaseya Center in Miami. The move comes after a report from USA Today which indicated that MVP Promotions, the company putting on the event which is owned by Paul and Nakisa Bidarian had withdrawn […]
Crawford-Canelo set record for Vegas
The Terence Crawford-Canelo Alvarez fight drew a record 70,482 fans which set a record for the largest boxing attendance in U.S. history for an indoor event. It also became the largest boxing crowd in Las Vegas history. The fight broke the previous record set with Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney fighting outside of Caesars Palace […]
41.4M viewers watched Canelo-Crawford
Netflix announced that this Saturday’s fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford drew “over 41 million global viewers” per Deadline. This is based on its metric of average minute audience (AMA). The report states that the fight drew “about 20.3M” tuned in live + same-day views. With those numbers, it comes as no surprise that […]
Arum provides opinion on the Ali Act
Bob Arum was interviewed this past weekend in Japan as a part of the Naoya Inoue-Murodjon Akhmadaliev fight on Sunday. Arum had opinions of the Ali Act revisions. Inoue defeated Akhmadaliev and indicated that he will fight one more time before year’s end in Saudi Arabia. Being interviewed by Fight Hub TV, Arum spoke about […]