Top Rank are preparing to announce an agreement for a new broadcast deal with DAZN.
The influential promoter had been without a broadcaster since the conclusion of their eight-year partnership with ESPN in July 2025, when Xander Zayas defeated Jorge Garcia Perez.
Two of their leading fighters, Raymond Muratalla against Andy Cruz and Emmanuel Navarrete against Eduardo Nunez, recently won well-received title fights on separate promotions shown on DAZN, and after a period of considerable uncertainty they will join fellow leading promoters Matchroom, Queensberry Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions in working with the broadcaster that has long branded itself the “home of boxing”.
Bob Arum’s organisation, on Wednesday in New York, is expected to confirm the agreement of a multi-year contract potentially encompassing in the region of 10-12 promotions a year. They are also expecting to work with a budget of up to $5m, and to have the option of staging promotions on DAZN’s pay-per-view model, but are said to favour avoiding doing so where possible.
The agreement that could make them as busy as they were with ESPN is set to commence in May or June and means that in addition to Muratalla and Navarrete, the promising Zayas, Keyshawn Davis, Abdullah Mason, Bruce Carrington, Teofimo Lopez, Janibek Alimkhanuly, Richard Torrez Jnr and more will have a platform on which to continue their careers.
“I think you’ll see the likes of Xander, Keyshawn, Shu Shu, and Abdullah Mason in short order,” a source told BoxingScene. The same source stressed that they are not expecting a limit on fight dates because Top Rank have been told that if they consider a fight ready to be made, they will be encouraged to proceed.
Top Rank also expect to continue to have the flexibility on other platforms. After they stopped working with ESPN, they promoted, among other contests, Zayas-Baraou on the Top Rank Classics channel, The Roku Channel, Tubi and Vizio.
