John Skipper called it "play along game". He is ready to be very long.
"You can not move ESPN in any horizon, really," he said on Tuesday. at an event in Manhattan to launch the American branch of DAZN streaming sports service. "They have too many rights."
"However, there will be a competitor and our job is to get there, and we're not just thinking in the US We're going to be a competitor around the world."
Skipper is Executive Chairman of Perform Group, which owns DAZN, and he was also president of ESPN from 2012 until his resignation in December, citing addiction.
(In March, he told The Hollywood Reporter that he had resigned as a result of an extortion attempt that threatened to reveal his use of cocaine.)
Now Skipper is not only in the first step to try an alternative to ESPN, but on a playground similar to ESPN +, which includes boxing.
Staples such as cable television bundles and a la carte combat cards.
"I love doing something that is agile and fun," Skipper said. "At this point, I like to be disruptive and like to participate, so I'm thrilled."
