I can't find a good English source for this yet, but here something I found on some .jp boards. Here's a rough translation:
>DAZN is expected to let their contract with the WWE lapse
>In 2017 DAZN gave WWE an undisclosed sum for broadcast rights in Japan
>DAZN is currently hemorrhaging money, ratings are extremely poor across the board
>It is predicted they will lose over 900 million USD this year
>DAZN routinely struggles to get more than 10000 viewers for high profile Anthony Joshua and Saul Alvarez bouts
>WWE ratings were even worse, live broadcasts of RAW and Smackdown routinely fail to get over 25 (twenty five) viewers
>JSPORTS now also airs Smackdown and RAW in Japan, ratings are much better but are still down
DAZN expected to drop WWE due to poor ratings
Blake Bennett
Luke Wilson
>>WWE ratings were even worse, live broadcasts of RAW and Smackdown routinely fail to get over 25 (twenty five) viewers
Brandon Moore
>25 viewers
Grayson Hall
>WWE ratings were even worse, live broadcasts of RAW and Smackdown routinely fail to get over 25 (twenty five) viewers
still more than Whojapan
Camden Foster
>>WWE ratings were even worse, live broadcasts of RAW and Smackdown routinely fail to get over 25 (twenty five) viewers
Jack Robinson
>WWE ratings were even worse, live broadcasts of RAW and Smackdown routinely fail to get over 25 (twenty five) viewers
>25 viewers
Cameron James
fake and gay
Jason Watson
TWENTY FIVE
Landon Collins
>J Sports
that channel is usually part of a premium package and isn't even available on regular tv, unlike New Japan's TV Asahi weekly show, which is at a shit time slot lol (2:00 a.m. on Sunday)
Ayden Smith
Most of this can be blamed on DAZN t b h
It's hard to get ratings figures out of DAZN, but it's estimated the Alvarez vs Jacobs fight had less than 3000 viewers on DAZN
Meltzer always says their ratings are "pathetic"
Benjamin Long
>DAZN
who?
Liam Morales
>WWE ratings were even worse, live broadcasts of RAW and Smackdown routinely fail to get over 25 (twenty five) viewers
Aiden Brooks
>watching sports on a mobile cellular telephone
Thats an oof from me pham
Wyatt Richardson
Where is the source in japanese?
Eli Flores
>WWE ratings were even worse, live broadcasts of RAW and Smackdown routinely fail to get over 25 (twenty five) viewers
Joshua Hill
>not recognizing Haruhi Suzumiya
John Martin
Why does she sit like that?
Dominic Clark
Why didn't she let the bassist pipe her?
Benjamin Ross
That's Aya Hirano and she is pure and *NOT* for sexuals.
Colton Howard
I mean source on OP claims.
Also Yuki a best.
Hunter James
25 fucking viewers!!
WWE end ya life.
Ethan Kelly
Still more than AEWho
Josiah Russell
>less than 3000 viewers
bloodyelbow.com
who's lying?
Angel Long
I believe it.
Meltzer said DAZN were basically in a death spiral.