Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT Sports and Dazn said Thursday they are joining forces to launch a monthly boxing series called The Fight, with the first card slated for July 4. The events will run on TNT and on Dazn streaming platforms, with related programming on TruTV for the debut broadcast.
The companies are pitching the alliance as a way to put boxing back in front of a broad U.S. audience, in primetime and on television. Walker Jacobs said the goal is to “have one championship fight every month in primetime on TNT and simulcast on DAZN,” while Raphael Poplock said putting matches on TNT “can bring in the more causal fans.”
The plan matters because boxing’s mainstream footprint has shrunk since HBO left the sport in 2018 and Showtime followed in 2023., Dazn and Netflix all still show bouts regularly, but the sport no longer carries the same halo it once did after the heavyweight pay-per-view era was anchored by premium cable.
Dazn brings a ready-made stable of promoters to the deal, with the ability to curate fights through its alliances with Top Rank, Matchroom Boxing, Golden Boy Promotions and Queensberry Promotions. That gives the new series a built-in pipeline of matchups while TNT supplies a broadcast stage that reaches viewers who may not seek boxing out on streaming services alone.
The partnership also grew out of a separate collaboration between TNT Sports and Dazn to carry the FIFA Club World Cup 2025. Both companies were impressed by the advertising results from that project, and Jacobs said the broader aim is to “make boxing part of the mainstream culture” and restore some of the size the sport once had.
There is still a tension at the center of the venture: boxing needs bigger reach, but modern sports programming is increasingly fragmented, and the biggest cable-era backers are gone. TNT has been trying to build new properties less dependent on the major leagues, including the three-on-three Unrivaled women’s basketball league and a new Dunkman league with Shaquille O’Neal, and The Fight is the latest bet that original franchises can still draw viewers when they are packaged like an event. The first test comes July 4, when TNT and Dazn find out whether a monthly boxing night can become something casual fans remember to tune into.
