After being on the sidelines, Netflix has started dipping into live sports.
Netflix's recent forays into live sports programming not expected to create any big waves soon’s third season of “Untold” did its first episode on Jake Paul’s rise in boxing and the controversies that nearly derailed his career.’s case, live sports serve as shoulder and support programming for the documentaries and series, which is the opposite of what usually happens.
“Everything that they’re doing has compelling storylines. It doesn’t matter what genre we’re talking about within sports and entertainment,” Garson said. “The way that they’re going about it is also putting a very high production value into what is being distributed acrossvice president of nonfiction sports, has said in recent interviews that they have talked to every league and team but have mainly discussed series and documentaries.
Like many who follow boxing and combat sports, Jim Lampley is waiting to see whether the Paul-Tyson bout means more events on“If they commit to the sport, care about the fighters and every match they’re doing, understand what the human values are, want to promote and relate to it, yeah, it can be good,” said Lampley, a boxing announcer who called fights on ABC and HBO for over 30 years and currently does work for PPV.com.
Irwin Kishner, the co-chair of the sports law group with the New York law firm Herrick, Feinstein LLP, is not as skeptical about the fight but also thinks “They’ve been totally around the edges , but I still think this is going to get a lot of eyeballs,” he said. “I think it’s just a matter of time before they become much heavier players in this space.”
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