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so their saving grace is DAZN who is bleeding money every day?
Great news for Bellator. Must feel good to finally be in the black.
The reality of it, though, is that DAZN provided a huge cash injection to Bellator. the real test will be when the 3 years are up and DAZN decides whether or not they want to continue with the 2 year option. If they do, great news for Bellator. if they do not, Bellator is going to see a sharp decline a revenue.
Bellator on paramount has been a ratings disaster.
This may be why they are moving bellator over to showtime. Seems that they have a smaller base of fans who are willing to pay for the product, but the product itself does not have mass appeal.
Even UFC has lost a lot of its novelty.
DAZN are massively profitable worldwide. just not in the USA.so their saving grace is DAZN who is bleeding money every day?
There has been no announcement that Bellator is moving to Showtime. And no, having Coker report to another division of the conglomerate is not the same thing as "Bellator moving to Showtime", which sounds like they are now going to be shown on the Showtime pay tv channel. They have a contract with DAZN in the U.S. (and Paramount Network still too) and tv rights deals all over the world. Showtime is not one of them.Great news for Bellator. Must feel good to finally be in the black.
The reality of it, though, is that DAZN provided a huge cash injection to Bellator. the real test will be when the 3 years are up and DAZN decides whether or not they want to continue with the 2 year option. If they do, great news for Bellator. if they do not, Bellator is going to see a sharp decline a revenue.
Bellator on paramount has been a ratings disaster.
This may be why they are moving bellator over to showtime. Seems that they have a smaller base of fans who are willing to pay for the product, but the product itself does not have mass appeal.
Even UFC has lost a lot of its novelty.
My bad,There has been no announcement that Bellator is moving to Showtime. And no, having Coker report to another division of the conglomerate is not the same thing as "Bellator moving to Showtime", which sounds like they are now going to be shown on the Showtime pay tv channel. They have a contract with DAZN in the U.S. (and Paramount Network still too) and tv rights deals all over the world. Showtime is not one of them.
People keep saying they're not trying to build up younger talent but they are. Not all the pushes are successful (see Pico), but I still get what they've been trying to do with Claxton, McKee, Corrales, Horiguchi, Archuletta, Lima, MVP, Pettis, Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, and many more.The matchups they've been providing are casual friendly (name value)
And for us hardcore fans we watch Fedor and Rampage because we are still a tad interested in these depressing matches
The biggest issue is they haven't been developing talent and their big names have probably 1 or 2 fights left in them before they retire.
I doubt it. Sporting content is really valuable in this era. Combat sport is too sizeable of a niche to simply dump.Moving to DAZN saved them. People shit on it cause less people will see the product but $ talks.
The question though is what happens in a few years. Most say DAZN is only in combat sports game to hold them over until they can bid on major US sports rights and if/when that happens bye bye paying for boxing and probably mma. Maybe Bellator is save cause its really not that much money but cant see them continuing to pay 35 mill per Canelo fight and stuff. Not with what they'll have to pay to get US major sports.
If they cant get those sports rights I dont know, are they in good enough shape to continue?
Who said Bellator is moving to Showtime? Having to report to the Showtime boss is not the same as Bellator being on Showtime.Great news for Bellator. Must feel good to finally be in the black.
The reality of it, though, is that DAZN provided a huge cash injection to Bellator. the real test will be when the 3 years are up and DAZN decides whether or not they want to continue with the 2 year option. If they do, great news for Bellator. if they do not, Bellator is going to see a sharp decline a revenue.
Bellator on paramount has been a ratings disaster.
This may be why they are moving bellator over to showtime. Seems that they have a smaller base of fans who are willing to pay for the product, but the product itself does not have mass appeal.
Even UFC has lost a lot of its novelty.
Haven’t been developing talent....The matchups they've been providing are casual friendly (name value)
And for us hardcore fans we watch Fedor and Rampage because we are still a tad interested in these depressing matches
The biggest issue is they haven't been developing talent and their big names have probably 1 or 2 fights left in them before they retire.
Bjiorn was bland at times but he had an eye for talent (not hype jobs but real talent) the issue with his style was he never got the casual fans attention and was better for Hardcore fans.
Coker has been lucky, getting big names like Baby Slice and Araon Pico but he rushed them both killing lots of their hype. While he feeds MVP guys who are barely pros and slowly kills his luster.