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Three years after saying ‘RIP pay-per-view,’ DAZN announces Canelo vs. Bivol will be on PPV

Here’s a video from 2019 that didn’t age well:

Canelo Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs) was DAZN’s big signing back in 2018 when he inked a massive $365 million deal with the streaming service. Then he eventually got out of that contract through his Golden Boy Boxing lawsuit and even though he’s back on DAZN for at least the next couple of fights, it’ll now cost extra to watch the undisputed super-middleweight champion compete.

Alvarez has signed a lucrative offer to face WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (19-0, 11 KOs) on May 7th, and should Gennadiy Golovkin defeat Ryota Murata in Japan this spring (hardly a given at this point), we would see Canelo vs.