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Founded in 2015, DAZN is a combat sports streaming platform that has had quite a run over the years. When it first launched, DAZN was available only in four countries — Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Japan — but has since grown to compete with the likes of ESPN+. DAZN now serves more than 200 regions around the globe, delivering live and on-demand boxing content, including fights, documentaries, news, interviews, analysis, and an archive of more than three decades’ worth of classic bouts. Truthfully, it’s one of…

Goran Gogic of Germany ends up on the floor in the Heavyweight fight against Pedro Carrion during the Arena Boxing Night at the Alterdorfer Sporthalle on December 15, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany.Friedemann Vogel | Bongarts | Getty ImagesFormer heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday with trafficking 22 tons of cocaine worth over $1 billion.The 43-year-old Montenegrin was arrested on Sunday night at Miami International Airport while trying to board a flight to Zurich. He was…

Few sports have proven themselves to be as reliably cinematic as boxing. It’s a duel between two individuals, and as such, the matches are always intensely personal. It’s no wonder, then, that boxing has been a subject of moving pictures since basically the second they were created, and has even been central to several major video games. In that time, though, some movies, from Raging Bull to the upcoming Creed III, have really expanded what a boxing movie can do. Some of these movies focus on real people, and others…

Fist of the North Star is now being adapted into — wait for it — a boxing exergame on Nintendo Switch. It looks bizarre, to say the least! Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star was announced during Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct; it launches in March 2023. In the teaser, players got to see the game’s exercise mode, in which the beefy hero Kenshiro, among others, will serve as your instructor. From there, players can punch their way through waves of enemies in Battle Mode. Then there are Boss Battles, more intense one-on-one…

Millions of boxing fans will be tuning into tonight's clash between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk as the heavyweights battle it out under the bright lights of the Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It's a huge night of boxing with Joshua looking to take revenge after his shock defeat to Usyk last year in front of his home crowd at Wembley.It's a must-watch brawl and it's only officially available via Sky with the firm securing full rights via its premium Box Office service.It costs £26.90 to gain access but…

via Prime Video Even though the tropes and trappings of the boxing genre have become increasingly familiar, it’s still one of those reliably comfortable genres that always tends to entice an audience to step into the ring and spend a couple of hours throwing jabs. In the case of Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher, that’s extended to success on streaming, in spite of what the critics think. As per FlixPatrol, the historical hybrid of sports drama, character study, and stirring underdog tale has debuted at…

Drake lookalike Izzy Drake, also known as Fake Drake, has challenged the Honestly, Nevermind artist to a $1 million celebrity boxing match.Per TMZ, Izzy directly asked the real Drake to duke it out, saying in a video that he’ll drop the impersonation if he loses the match.“It’s your boy Izzy Drake, OVO tings, you already know we outside. I just signed with Celebrity Boxing,” he said in the video in which he challenges Drizzy. “August 27th, I’m calling Drake out for a friendly boxing match. If I win, you gotta sign me to…

Twitch’s concurrent viewership record has been broken again. Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos Garatea (who goes by “Ibai” on the platform) hit a peak of more than 3.3 million concurrent viewers during a boxing event he hosted over the weekend, according to Twitch (via Eurogamer), crushing the previous record of nearly 2.5 million held by Spanish streamer TheGrefg. Ibai’s event, La Velada del Año II, featured other content creators competing in the ring as well as some musical performances. Content creator-led boxing…

“Peace is a subjective hypothesis,” says one character in Anubhav Sinha’s new action thriller, which examines the political conflicts that have plagued Northeast India for generations. This casual aphorism – and the film itself – is riddled with ambivalence, a welcome departure from the nationalistic jingoism that has ruled Hindi cinema and its box office in recent years.Anek asks the difficult question of what it means to be Indian, a loaded riddle in a period where Hindutva rhetoric has fostered brutal discrimination…

Rosie Perez apologises for sounding a little hoarse – it’s partly because of a cold, but mainly because she spent Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, screaming for Amanda Serrano during her historic bout against Katie Taylor. “I shouldn’a went to the fights, but I went to the fights,” she mutters in that unmistakeable Brooklyn accent. But how could she have missed the biggest women’s boxing match in history? “On one hand, it’s gonna go down in the history books as one of the best fights ever, and that’s saying a lot.…