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Credit: DAZN  On March 18th, the focus of the Boxing world focused on Madison Square Garden in New York City where a press conference was held where digital subscription sports streaming network DAZN announced its latest partnership in forming a multi-year worldwide broadcast deal with Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum and Top Rank Inc , marking the latest promotional entity to join the network that has marketed itself as “The Global Home of Boxing.” While the aforementioned tagline is a clever marketing tool, it is really as close to reality as one could claim. After all, in 2018 when DAZN entered the United States market, many laughed at the idea of a strictly streaming-based platform that would operate primarily under a subscription model as a potential power broker in the sport of Boxing. This observer has from the moment I was informed of the network’s entry both into the United States, but also Boxing was supportive of what was being attempted. Before I elaborate further, it ...

Credit: Netflix /Most Valuable Promotions  Press Release: November 17, 2025 By Most Valuable Promotions and Netflix- Jake Paul faces the most dangerous and defining fight of his career against Britain’s two-time unified heavyweight world champion and Olympic Gold medalist Anthony Joshua in a professional heavyweight megafight scheduled for 8, three-minute rounds with 10oz gloves Jake vs. Joshua Kickoff Press Conference will take place Friday, November 21 at 1pm at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida , hosted by renowned combat sports journalist Ariel Helwani . All media interested in being credentialed to cover the press conference must apply here. Tickets for Jake vs. Joshua: Judgment Day go on sale Friday, November 21 at 12pm ET at Ticketmaster.com and fans can sign up for pre-sale now at jakevsjoshua.com  Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and Netflix today announced Jake vs. Joshua: Judgment Day, a colossal global showdown between boxing’s biggest disruptor, int...

Credit: DAZN The most consistent topic of Boxing coverage penned by yours truly over the last several years, particularly here on The  Boxing Truth® ️ has been on the sport’s reliance, despite consistent evidence of decline, on the pay-per-view model and the subsequent need to move away from said model, especially with the rise of digital subscription-based streaming . Without doing a complete refresher as by this point there have been many columns written by this observer that serve as an accurate chronicle of how we have gotten to the present time and topic. What is the topic of this writing the reader might ask? the revamp of sorts for digital subscription-based streaming network DAZN . As some may recall the network, which launched in 2016 internationally, made a significant expansion into the United States in 2018, which coincided with what turned out to be a significant shift not just in Boxing, but for sports overall as shortly before DAZN entered the United Sta...

Press Release: December 22,  2024 By Lee McLaughlan -  ·       Taylor’s manager Harrison holds talks with Matchroom’s Rooney in Orlando ·       Williams confirmed to headline card in Orlando on March 15 22, December 2024, Houston, TX: Houston’s Marquis ‘0 Snatcher’ Taylor has set his sights on Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams following his second successful defence of the NABF middleweight belt. Taylor (18-1-2, 3KOs) secured a unanimous decision over Ivan Pandzic following their 10-round tussle in Houston on Friday (December 13th) and immediately announced he wanted to take on Williams (17-1-0, 12KOs). Fresh from the Houston fight, Taylor and his manager Bobby Harrison have already begun to sound out Williams’ team at this week’s WBA Conference in Orlando after Matchroom announced ‘Ammo’ would headline a card in Orlando on March 15th, 2025. No opponent was announced for Williams and both Taylor and Harrison, CEO of BiYu Promotions, have met Matchroom’s head...

Boxing’s 112lb. Flyweight division takes center stage this Thanksgiving weekend as an intriguing battle will occur at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England as former IBF Flyweight world champion Sunny Edwards will face undefeated top contender Galal Yafai. An encounter that will determine Interim/Regular champion status in the World Boxing Council (WBC) Flyweight ratings, which can be seen worldwide on digital subscription streaming network DAZN . While Boxing’s lower weight divisions do not always receive consistent exposure here in the United States, it is often the lower weight classes that offer battles often fought at a high pace and no shortage of action. This fight figures to follow in that tradition. In this case, this particular bout has an interesting contrast in a former world champion looking to get back into position to fight for a world championship going against a young, unbeaten contender, who some might feel has yet to be tested.   Edwards is looking ...

There has been much attention recently surrounding undefeated IBF Welterweight world champion Jaron Ennis, known to Boxing fans as “Boots." Ennis, who is unbeaten in thirty-one professional fights, was the last signee to the now-defunct Showtime Sports and made a name for himself competing in fights promoted under the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) group of promoters. With Showtime’s exit from Boxing at the end of last year as part of a significant restructuring of its parent company Paramount Global and a decision by Ennis to not continue fighting under the PBC banner, in stepped promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing and thus the beginning of a new chapter in Ennis’ career. A chapter that not only begins with him signing with a new promoter but also a world championship after recently being elevated to world champion by the International Boxing Federation (IBF) from being it's top contender following former Undisputed Welterweight world champion Terrence Crawford choosing ...

Originally, August 19th in the world of Boxing was to be spotlighted by the highly anticipated World Light-Heavyweight championship fight between undefeated champion Artur Beterbiev and former Super-Middleweight world champion Callum Smith. As some know, the bout between Beterbiev and Smith has been postponed to January 2024 due to Beterbiev needing time to recover from recent dental surgery. While that fight was initially one of the highlights of the month of August 2023, a bout that could be described by some as under the radar could prove to be interesting. This observer is referring to the Flyweight bout between undefeated Flyweight contender Galal Yafai and former British Flyweight champion Tommy Frank, which will take place at the Birmingham Arena in Birmingham, England that can be seen globally on digital subscription sports streaming network DAZN.  While the 112lb. Flyweight division does not always get much exposure, particularly here in the United States, one thing that m...

It has been announced that the scheduled August 12th rematch between former two-time Heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua and former world title challenger Dillian Whyte has been cancelled. The bout, which was to take place at the O2 Arena in London, England was cancelled earlier today by promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing after Whyte had what was being described as a quote "Adverse Finding" in random pre-fight testing conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency ( VADA ) of which both fighters are enrolled according to a statement released on the promotional company's respective social media platforms.  As of this writing, there is no word on whether there will be an attempt to reschedule the bout, which was to headline a Boxing card broadcast by digital subscription sports streaming network DAZN and DAZN Pay-Per-View in select countries. Matchroom Boxing has gone onto say that in addition to the cancellation, a full investigation will be forthcoming. As to...

Originally, the days that followed the fourth of July holiday here in the United States in the sport of Boxing was to shine a spotlight on the 147lb. Welterweight division, a division which later this month will crown it's first undisputed world champion since the 1980's when undefeated world champions Errol Spence and Terrence Crawford put their records and portions of the World Welterweight championship on the line. There was however, supposed to be an encounter of significance in the division on July 8th as undefeated contender Vergil Ortiz was to meet top contender Eimantas Stanionis in San Antonio, TX, which would have determined a mandatory challenger for the winner of the upcoming Spence-Crawford clash.  Unfortunately, Ortiz, who has seen his fast-rising career stall due to dealing with medical issues that had previously caused postponement of this bout earlier this year, was forced to withdraw again just days before the fight when he fainted while training for the bout....

Press Release: July 6,, 2023 By DAZN - British Heavyweight rivals Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte will meet in an explosive rematch at The O2 in London on Saturday August 12, shown exclusively live on DAZN around the world and on DAZN PPV in the UK and Ireland. Credit: DAZN    Two-time unified Heavyweight World Champion Joshua (25-3, 22 KOs) and former World Title challenger Whyte (29-3, 19 KOs) lock horns again nearly eight years on from their wild British Title clash in Greenwich, which Joshua won by a huge seventh-round stoppage to end a thrilling war.    Brixton’s Whyte has a long-running rivalry with Joshua, having beaten the Watford man on points as an amateur back in 2009 before Joshua won an Olympic gold medal at London 2012 which kick-started his meteoric rise to global stardom.    ‘AJ’ went on to unify the Heavyweight division, winning the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO crowns as he became one of the biggest athletes on the planet with a stri...

The storyline prior to rising unbeaten Super-Middleweight contender Edgar Berlanga 's fight against former Middleweight world title challenger Jason Quigley on June 24th at The Theater in Madison Square Garden was whether or not Berlanga, who holds the North American Boxing Organization (NABO) championship in the Super-Middleweight division, could produce a performance that would serve as a strong argument for him as being a potential challenger for current undisputed champion of the division Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. As most know however, a slight wrinkle emerged two days before the bout when it was revealed that Alvarez had signed a three-fight deal with the Premier Boxing Champions ( PBC ) group of promoters, which moves Alvarez at least for the time being away from digital subscription sports streaming network DAZN and at least for now to United States premium cable network Showtime , which for Berlanga, who recently signed with Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing , who had...