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We can hope.
But when your handing out 365 million over 11 fights (probably 5 years or so) for Canelo and 10 events a year from Golden Boy(I'm not sure if that is part of the 365 million or seperate), 100 million wrapped up in Bellator over 3 years, 1 billion dollar deal with Matchroom boxing, and then a lot of other smaller deals. I know a few years back they signed like a 2 billion dollar deal for Japan's J League. I'm sure the rights they have to the NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA in other countries didn't come cheap either.
Sure, its all supported worldwide but they have to be somewhere around 300 to 500 million a year around the globe in media rights yearly. At 300 million a year for media rights and avg cost of 10 a month they would need at least 40 million subscribers to even have shot in hell of making one cent when you figure in overhead cost. Streaming 8000 events a year cost some major bucks for that bandwidth. Netflix has around 135 million subscribers worldwide(59 million of them in the US). I think DAZN to continue down a path of really being the "netflix" for sports they have to hit a good 75 million subscribers in the next 5 years world wide. Right now it's mainly being supported by investors.
Should be interesting to watch and I for one hope it works out.
P.S.: If they could somehow snake away NFL rights in the US that alone would probably guarantee them worldwide success as somewhere around 65 to 80 million people a week watch the NFL games in the US. I would think a good 50 million would instantly sign up in the US. But good luck competing with networks for that. There is a lot of you rub my back I'll rub yours in that world that goes beyond just broadcasting the game.
Fox paid like $3 Billion dollars just for Thursday Night Football.