Matchroom Extends DAZN Rights Through 2031, Pledging 30-Plus Shows a Year
The pact gives the promoter rare long-term broadcast certainty in a sport where many rivals lack stable TV partners.
Overview
- - The five-year extension covers the UK and US and commits to more than 30 events worldwide each year.
- - Matchroom also set an eight-show slate in Australia for 2026 with Foxtel, which DAZN recently acquired.
- - The agreement places Matchroom alongside Zuffa Boxing as the only U.S. promoters with media-rights deals running to 2031, while Queensberry retains a long-term UK pact.
- - The platform is slated to host Matchroom fighters such as Anthony Joshua, Katie Taylor, Conor Benn, Shakur Stevenson, Dmitry Bivol, Jesse "Bam" Rodriguez and Ben Whittaker through 2031, subject to retirements or new contracts.
- - Joshua’s near-term plans remain unclear after he was injured in a fatal car crash in Nigeria, having last boxed on Netflix with DAZN’s permission, prompting greater focus on emerging names like Benn, Stevenson, Rodriguez and Whittaker.