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It hasn’t generated a great deal of conversation, but the next two weeks are likely to serve as a critical point for the financial future of combat sports. The DAZN over-the-top streaming subscription service has big aspirations in both mixed martial arts and boxing. Having spent massive sums of money to secure the rights to Bellator MMA and Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing, the next few weeks will go a long way towards settling whether that investment by DAZN was financially prudent and whether it is likely to be sustainable moving forward.