- DAZN have set Wardley vs Dubois at £24.99 PPV in the UK with the Ultimate plan price-matched at the same monthly cost
- Ultimate covers both Wardley-Dubois on May 9 AND Usyk-Verhoeven on May 23 — two heavyweight world title fights inside three weeks
- After years of UK boxing PPV chasing the £20-£25 line on a single fight, the bundled offering is the fairest deal British fans have had in a decade
Right Then — The Number Is £24.99
Right then. DAZN have set the price for Fabio Wardley versus Daniel Dubois on Saturday at £24.99 in the UK as a one-off PPV. That price includes a one-month DAZN subscription. If you're already subscribed, the PPV is bolted on at the same number. And here's where the maths gets interesting — the DAZN Ultimate monthly plan, also £24.99, includes the fight at no extra charge.
Three weeks later, on May 23, Ultimate also covers Oleksandr Usyk versus Rico Verhoeven from the Pyramids in Giza. Two heavyweight world title fights for one £24.99 invoice if you time it right. That, in the context of UK boxing PPV pricing in the past decade, is the fairest call we've had on a major heavyweight night in a very long time.
The Build-Up Has Earned The Number
Make no mistake — this isn't DAZN being charitable. This is DAZN being clever. They've worked out that the British heavyweight scene is the most engaged audience in world boxing right now, and that pricing two world title nights as one combined month gets you 10 times more new sign-ups than pricing them as two separate £20 hits would. The fight buyer who balked at £21.95 for a single Saturday night is the same fight buyer who'll happily eat £24.99 for a month if there are two events in it.
That logic only works if both fights deliver. Wardley-Dubois is, in pure styles terms, the fight nobody can call. Two big punchers, two warriors, one belt. Usyk-Verhoeven is the curiosity fight of the year — the pound-for-pound number one against a kickboxing colossus over twelve. Neither has a disappointing version. Both could deliver fight-of-the-year contender minutes.
What The Bundle Actually Buys You
Let's be straight about what the £24.99 covers if you go the Ultimate route on a fresh sign-up:
One month of full DAZN coverage. Both PPV fights — Wardley-Dubois and Usyk-Verhoeven — at no additional charge inside that month. The full undercards on both shows, including David Morrell vs Zak Chelli, Bakhodir Jalolov vs Agron Smakici, Liam Cameron vs Bradley Rea on Saturday's Manchester bill. All the back catalogue of DAZN documentary content. And the rest of the May fight calendar, including the Angelo Leo vs Ra'eese Aleem IBF featherweight bill from Atlanta on the same May 9 night.
That's a properly stacked month. Anyone telling you UK boxing PPV is still being abused at this number is comparing it to a single-fight £21.95 Sky Box Office bill from 2019. The market has moved.
Where The Bundle Hurts You
Here's the bit DAZN won't put in the marketing copy. The Ultimate plan, if you sign up and forget to cancel, will keep charging at £24.99 a month. So you're paying for May, June and July of Ultimate before you've even thought about it, even if there's nothing on Ultimate in those months that you actually wanted. That's how DAZN turns a £24.99 promo into a £74.97 quiet quarter.
The fix is straightforward — set a reminder for late May, watch the Pyramids fight, and downgrade or cancel before June 23. If you can do that, the Ultimate route is the right one. If you'll forget, take the one-off PPV instead and accept that the Usyk fight will cost you a separate £24.99 later.
How It Reads Against The Sky And ITV Era
Let's not pretend the old Sky Sports Box Office numbers were charity. Anthony Joshua versus Andy Ruiz II in Riyadh cost UK fans £24.95 in 2019. Joshua-Usyk II went for £24.95 on Sky in 2022. Fury-Wilder III ran at £24.95 on BT Sport Box Office. The £25 line has been the unspoken UK heavyweight ceiling for nearly a decade.
What's changed is what's bundled around it. In 2019 you got the one fight, the undercard, and that was your night. The Ultimate model now wraps the fight inside a month of subscription product. For the casual fight fan who wasn't going to subscribe to DAZN anyway, that's worse value. For the engaged fight fan who watches half a dozen fight nights a month already, it's the best UK boxing pricing has ever looked.
The Take
Brilliant pricing call by DAZN. They've used a properly enormous Saturday in Manchester to anchor a month that also includes the heavyweight curiosity fight of the year and the IBF featherweight title from Atlanta. £24.99 for that volume of content is fair. The fight fan who buys in on Friday and remembers to cancel on May 24 has had a class deal.
The fight fan who signs up and forgets about it has had a class first month and an expensive second one. Stay on top of your subscriptions. The fights are worth the money. The auto-renewal might not be.