Matchroom will now promote the many-times delayed world title fight between undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez and IBF mandatory challenger George Kambosos. Promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed that the bout will air live on DAZN. Date and venue to be announced shortly. Triller originally won the rights to the bout with a bid of $6 million, but after multiple postponements, the IBF moved to the second highest bidder Matchroom, who bid $3.5 million. Both fighters will be making hundreds of thousands less than they would have under the original deal.
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Hmmm who knows why they rather make less than more, but can’t wait for this great fight!
Because the company with the highest bid doesn’t have the money to do the fight. That’s why they going to the second highest offer.
Can’t help but laugh at this. Triller is an absolute joke and the best possible outcome would be them going out of business.
I still find it hard to believe that these Tiller monthly cards with these rapper competitions and boxing get over 5 million viewers. Makes absolutely no sense
Finally, this fight is in safe hands. Matchroom and DAZN get title fights done. Triller, ehhh, not so much….
wont make much difference as Tim bradley stated it wont go past 4 kambosos the loser will be pummeled
does it really matter if we ever see this fight?
does anyone really care? (other than the participants, families, and their teams)
I dont even think any of the families and teams care about it.
a part of me is glad because Thriller overvalued that fight, as Top Rank pointed out, it was never worth the money that was put up for it.
another part wants to see boxers get all the money they can from funds generated from the sale of their fights, however high those purses may be, as long as it does not make them overestimate their worth to such an extent that they price themselves out of legitimate competition.
As a DAZN subscriber, I care. Happy to see Teofimo fight. Happy that Kambosos will still get a nice payday for his hard work.
Sounds like triller is in trouble. Good riddance…
I don’t think triller would have been able to pay these 6 million dollars, so it wasn’t real money anyway. They’ll take a perceived pay cut, but will actually get paid with matchroom. Triller needs to go away like Jay-Z’s old failed promotional company. They have no future in real boxing.
sure seems suspect after 5 dates why does this fight keep getting moved back? this has become the least active undisputed champion in history hell Canelo has already fought 10x since Lopez last fight lol
You can thank Lopez Sr for trying to make some side deal and creating this shit show. Teo needs to drop that clown. Gonna a take an L for him to do it.
Dangerous fight for Tank Davis. Not so much for the quality of his opponent but for the wild and somehow wreckles style that may result on a bad cut Gervonta does not needs. Porter is a tough opponent for Crawford after so long without seeing any action. Crawford will tire by the eight.