DAZN Steps Into PPV Boxing Ring with Anthony Joshua-Deontay Wilder Card

By R. Thomas Umstead
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Bout concludes strong 2023 PPV boxing campaign

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Deontay Wilder (Image credit: ESPN)

DAZN on Saturday (December 23) will finish off a busy 2023 pay-per-view boxing year with a big heavyweight fight card featuring former champions Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua.

The fight, which retails at $39.99, is headlined by the Joshua-Otto Wallin match along with the Deontay Wilder-Joseph Parker bout. Also on the card is the Dmitry Bivol-Lyndon Arthur light heavyweight title bout.

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The fight card is DAZN’s second PPV boxing event of the month following its December 9 Devin Haney-Regis Prograis PPV event. 

The fight is the 11th major PPV boxing match for the industry, which more than doubled last year's output. Showtime's April 22 Gervonta Davis-Ryan Garcia event set the pace for the year with a reported 1.2 million PPV buys. 

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R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.