Amazon’s Prime Video Inks PBC Boxing Multiyear PPV Deal

Amazon‘s Prime Video and Premier Boxing Champions launched a multiyear rights settlement to convey prime pay-per-view boxing events to U.S. viewers.

Launched in 2015, PBC choices over 150 energetic fighters all through diverse weight divisions, along with prime contenders and current world champions. In 2023, its matchups have included David Benavídez vs. Caleb Plant, Gervonta “Tank” Davis vs. Ryan Garcia, Errol Spence vs. Terence Crawford, and Canelo Alvarez vs. Jermell Charlo.

Prime Video will distribute PBC’s PPV events inside the U.S, with the first event anticipated for March 2024. The events is perhaps accessible for all viewers to purchase, whether or not or not or not they’re Prime members. In addition to, inside the U.S. and select nations, Prime Video will utterly stream a PBC Championship Boxing assortment of events, showcasing prime matchups amongst boxing’s current and rising stars. (Particulars on specific taking part in playing cards, dates, and locations is perhaps launched at a later date.)

Beneath the pact, Prime Video moreover plans to ship related content material materials with the PBC, along with behind-the-scenes docu-series and dwell weigh-ins, along with current on-demand entry to earlier events, highlights, archival footage and further.

“We’re thrilled to affix with Premier Boxing Champions to convey the proper boxers on this planet to Prime Video, and to current additional followers than ever the prospect to experience these must-see events,” Marie Donoghue, VP, U.S. sports activities actions content material materials and partnerships for Amazon. “With dwell safety of PBC movement all by means of the calendar 12 months, Prime Video continues to convey viewers inside the U.S. and all around the world the proper in sports activities actions.”

Bruce Binkow, CEO of Constructed-in Sports activities actions, distinctive firm for PBC, added that “Prime’s unimaginable attain and unprecedented promoting and advertising and marketing power, we’re very excited to reach new audiences for our sport as we proceed to present basically essentially the most thrilling, aggressive and largest fights in boxing.”

The deal expands Prime Video’s rising lineup of dwell sports activities actions globally, which includes the NFL’s “Thursday Night Soccer,” the WNBA, the NWSL, the Seattle Storm, the New York Yankees, Further time Elite and the Expert Pickleball Affiliation inside the U.S.

Pictured above: Caleb Plant (r.) takes a punch from David Benavídez all through a WBC great middleweight fight at MGM Grand Yard Space on March 25, 2023, in Las Vegas