Remember like a boss Golden Boy Promotions Oscar De La Hoya has previously posted on social media that he is considering selling his company? Later allegedly even found a buyer. Then the public decided that the businessman was just bored and wanted to attract a little attention to himself.
But the other day top boxing columnist Dan Rafael
reported about the fact that one of its leading specialists, matchmaker Robert Diaz, left the company.
“It is rumored that one of the best specialists in this field, Diaz, left the company on Tuesday. His contract ended, and De La Hoya decided not to renew it, ”writes Rafael.
The decision to refuse Diaz’s services seems strange. It is possible that soon GBP and indeed change ownership. Interestingly, immediately after this, Rafael published another interesting note – about financial affairs.
streaming DAZNwith which Oscar and his company cooperate.
Rafael refers to the data Bloomberg, who write that the financial loss of streaming for 2021 amounted to an incredible 2.3 billion USD. That is, even much more than it was in 2020 spoiled by the pandemic (1.2 billion USD).
However, it was by no means boxing that turned out to be a disastrous move – they spent heavily on acquiring the rights to broadcast football matches (Italian and German leagues).
AT DAZN do not lose heart, they assume that they will come out in plus at the end of 2023.
The other day, De La Hoya ran into White: “He beat his wife, won the fighter of the evening nomination.”