Usyk and Lomachenko Fights Will Not Be Shown on Nationwide Channels
The rights have been acquired by the streaming service MEGOGO.
The streaming service MEGOGO will exclusively broadcast the fights of the two most popular boxers in Ukraine, Vasyl Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk. This means that the biggest fights of Ukrainian boxers will not be shown on nationwide TV channels.
Upcoming Lomachenko and Usyk Fights
- Vasyl Lomachenko — Teofimo Lopez, October 18
- Oleksandr Usyk — Derek Chisora, October 31
The exclusive broadcast of the Lomachenko vs. Lopez fight has already been officially announced by the streaming service and is the result of a contract between MEGOGO and the promotional company Top Rank. The streaming service also shows other fights from this company, for example, the bout of Ukrainian Viktor Postol at the end of August.
The broadcast of the Usyk vs. Chisora fight and further fights of the Ukrainian boxer have not yet been announced, but commentator Vladimir Kobelkov said in the programme “Boxing Without Masks,” which is available on MEGOGO, that the fight would be broadcast on the streaming service. Also, MEGOGO employee Artem Panchenko hinted at an exclusive broadcast in Stories by posting a poster of the fight.
Since 2008, all the top fights of Ukrainian boxers, first the Klitschko brothers, then Usyk, Lomachenko and others, were shown on the publicly available channel Inter.
MEGOGO has been showing sports on its platform for several years (excluding retransmissions of Ukrainian TV channels). Currently, the company also holds rights to matches of the Spanish, German and French football championships. However, since last year, the service has shared them with the Football 1/2/3 TV channels.
MEGOGO does not only operate in Ukraine. For example, in the Russian Federation, the service acquired the rights to broadcast National Basketball Association (NBA) games.
MEGOGO sports broadcasts are available by subscription for 97 hryvnias per month. This price includes more than 200 TV channels and a library of films.
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