How to Watch Boxing live or on-demand in Australia

It goes without saying that Aussies love their sport more than most – and are also lucky enough to have a massive range of sports available to us via our TVs from all corners of the planet, including boxing.

Boxing is a sport that’s traditionally been a little more difficult to get a hold of than the others. The hugely popular and often controversial sport has become a massive money-driven thing over recent decades, and with far less frequent headline events than other sports, it’s meant that the price of entry for the big-name bouts has tended to be on the high side. Fortunately for Boxing fans, all of that has changed.

Where to watch Boxing live or on-demand

Boxing used to be something only available via satellite or cable pay TV, or by heading down to a local venue that was showing the fight on the big screen. In a major win for fans, pay-per-view has come to streaming, and outside of just those headline fights, there’s now a thriving world of boxing available to watch at home or via a mobile device – and the options for watching this popular sport have grown immensely.

Let’s take a look at your choices for live and on-demand boxing coverage – and you may be surprised to discover how much variety there is.

When is the next big Boxing match live on TV in Australia?

Trying to find out when the next boxing match is a difficult thing to do. The below table shows you upcoming boxing matches across the available TV and streaming providers.

Main Event via Foxtel / KayoEvent	Date / Time (AEST)	Streaming Services
Canelo v Munguia	Sunday 5 May from 10am	Main Event via Foxtel / Kayo
Inoue v Nery	Monday 6 May from 6pm	Main Event via Foxtel / Kayo
Lomachenko v Kambosos	Sunday 12 May from 12pm	Main Event via Foxtel / Kayo

DAZN – The Boxing Specialists

Arriving in Australia right at the tail end of 2020, UK-based streaming network DAZN has been a big deal in Europe and the US for some years now. They’ve got the global streaming rights to several major boxing promoters’ events – including Matchroom, Golden Boy Boxing and GGG Promotions. And that means they’ve got full access to some of the biggest title fights in the sport, with the launch month alone seeing WBC heavyweight, super-middleweight and middleweight fights streaming live from the UK and US, with full coverage of all the lead-up to each event, including weight-ins, press conferences and more.

DAZN has launched in Australia with a sole focus on boxing, and that means first-class coverage from one of the most experienced boxing broadcast networks in the world, backed up by exclusive shows, replays, analysis, documentaries and more.

The best feature, though, is the price – only $2.99 per month. No, that’s not a typo – access to all of DAZN, including live match streams, is under three bucks a month. At that price, it’s one every boxing fan will want to sign up for and have at the ready. It’s easily the sports bargain of the year.

Stream Boxing live or on-demand with Kayo

Kayo’s apps and platform are top notch, letting subscribers pick the sports they care about, then keeping them up to date with the latest coverage.

Up until DAZN’s arrival, Kayo had been streaming Matchroom boxing events, but with DAZN holding global rights to that promoter, its unknown at this stage whether we’ll see those bouts on Kayo in the future. It may explain why Kayo’s test run of offering pay-per-view from Foxtel’s Main Event channel has turned into a regular thing – those are fights that you can’t see anywhere else, after all.

But that doesn’t mean boxing is diminished for regular Kayo subscribers – far from it. You’ll still find the boxing section packed with content, including regular live streams, full match replays dating back all the way to mid-2019, as well as plenty of shows and highlights. At $25/month and a free trial for access to that as well as the rest of the vast treasure trove of sport Kayo has on offer, it’s still incredible value for money – and if it turns out that some events have gone to DAZN, the extra $2.99 a month for access to them won’t hurt the hip pocket too much.

Streaming devices that support live Boxing

When it comes to which devices you can stream boxing bouts on, both Kayo and DAZN come with extensive support for popular streaming devices, and though there are some differences, all support iOS and Android phones and tablets and will let you cast to a Chromecast device from them.

DAZN, having been in operation overseas for twice as long as Kayo has here, arrives in Australia with a set of apps for almost everything – with the exception of Telstra TV.

Kayo, on the other hand, has a Telstra TV app that even lets you subscribe via your Telstra account, as well as apps for most major streaming devices.

The difference between the two comes with support for smart TVs – DAZN supports both Samsung and LG, while Kayo only supports recent Samsung and Hisense TVs (Sony TVs are supported by both via each service’s Android TV apps). DAZN also has more extensive game console app support.