{"id":460134,"date":"2026-02-07T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460134\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:43:23","slug":"frank-warren-promoter-looks-to-what-will-change-for-boxing-after-45-years-as-promoter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460134\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Warren: Promoter looks to what will change for boxing after 45 years as promoter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boxing’s TV situation is complex.<\/p>\n

There are many in the sport who fear more major fights going onto streaming platforms isn’t good for the long-term future, while others argue they need to move with changing viewing habits.<\/p>\n

Warren is one of them after Queensberry moved to DAZN in 2025 after being with TNT Sports and previously on BoxNation and Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

“EastEnders at one time had 15 million, 20 million people watching,” he recalls.<\/p>\n

“They’re lucky to get three now. What fans are watching and how they’re watching is different now.<\/p>\n

“I talk to my grandkids all the time and they hardly watch TV. They get most of their entertainment through YouTube.”<\/p>\n

BBC has recently returned to boxing alongside Boxxer,<\/a> while Sky Sports have teamed up<\/a> with Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP).<\/p>\n

Netflix showed Anthony Joshua v Jake Paul and will broadcast Tyson Fury’s comeback<\/a> against Arslanbek Makhmudov in April which suggest they’re becoming a serious player.<\/p>\n

While TV and pay-per-view remains a huge source of income, Warren believes the live gate will remain key in the next decades, but says there needs to be innovation for the viewing audience.<\/p>\n

“It’s all about how the public change,” he says. “The live gate’s always going to be there.<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen what they’re doing with some football matches now with big screens, which are like a 3D sort of situation. That’s very interesting.<\/p>\n

“The name of the game for any sport, any promoter is to capitalise on how technology is changing, generate income that makes the show a bigger show, makes it successful.<\/p>\n

“And the bottom line of it is [to make sure] the fighters do really, really well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing’s TV situation is complex. There are many in the sport who fear more major fights going onto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-460134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}