“There are a lot of reasons [for the decline], but I think the main reason is that pay-per-view took over,” he explained. “So, in 2017, you have to pay for sports, and Germany wasn’t approved [ready] for it. We were approved [ready] for free TV, so we don’t want to pay for sports events. But that’s why it’s a good momentum now, because streaming takes over now, and every German household has DAZN, Netflix, Amazon, so we can compete now. This was the main reason, to be honest.”
Winter’s coming: German boxing renaissance predicted
