Mayweather vs Ortiz on Primetime, Live Tonight!!

Given that ppv is now a part of the furniture in US television, and has been for some time, if we UK fans start lobbying against ppv, undermining the service and all of that, isn't there a danger that all we will achieve is that some of these fights won't be shown in the UK at all?

I'd obviously rather watch a fight for a cost absorbed within my regular television costs, rather than pay extra from time to time, but at the same time I am conscious that I have to move with the times. I am 37 years old, and obviously remember a time before satellite/cable television existed in this country. Now we take that for granted. I just fear that if we fight ppv then there will come a point where we simply don't get these fights on our television.

The ppv money is now an element of the negotiation between fighters to get fights made - we could chase the whole sport over to America, in terms of both the live events and the television coverage, if we make ppv unviable here.

For me, my only hesitation is whether a card merits ppv status. Paying £15 (or whatever it was) to watch a scared Audley throw one jab against an overrated Haye is not, for me, value. But this card has three WBC titles, one of the greatest boxers of his generation, an exciting new champion defending his title, an unpredictable KO artist looking to cause an upset, and they even throw in Crolla for free as a sweetner to more hardcore boxing fans.

While obviously I would rather not pay extra to watch fights, I am very glad that Primetime has entered the mix, I bought all of their SuperSix fights, I have bought all their Klitschko fights, and I will buy this card, too. Within the context of a society where ppv has become the norm, for me they are offering value that has sometimes been lacking in uk boxing ppv events. I bought Setanta cards, too, when they were available.

(Plus we seem, on balance, to like their commentator, while Jim Watt comes in for endless stick on here).

Anyway, probably setting myself up for some abuse but I just think that boxing fans should be uniting to support people who are bringing live boxing to television in the UK, rather than just hurling abuse and asking why they won't show the Berto fight (to which the answer seems obvious and has been laid out on here).

 

Anyone know if this will be recordable on a V+ Box, I like to watch the fights back later.

 

Don't know about V+, but on Sky+ you can record ppv but they automatically delete a few days later, so you can't keep them long term. So if that is important to you, I would check that detail with them, too. Sky told me I could record ppv, but of course did not mention that it would delete automatically a few days later...

 

Venus.. you got any more jobs going mate?

 

No it wouldnt. Its not as if promoters would say no to selling the tv rights if it meant the fight wouldnt be on PPV.

 

Ill be streaming this for free thanks.

 

I hate saying this, but it’s only because of Sky that boxing still has any life in the UK. Funny considering it’s also Sky that relegated it from the mainstream, but I digress.

If Primetime have even moderate success, they put more and more events on PPV at inflated prices. Some may pay for them and their clownshoes production, I will not. Sky may opt only to show domestic boxing, and we’ll be forced to pay for international boxing, but only the fights PT can get. That’s a rubbish situation.

I simply will not pay for PPV anymore. I bought the Froch-Dirrell/Abraham-Taylor double bill from PT. It was appallingly low quality even for the internet stream. Setanta did it much better and provided on-demand services too.

I miss Setanta.

But, I digress again.

I will simply watch using other methods.

 

Hilarious. You've brightened up the gloomy weather. I don't like ppv in principle, all I am saying is that we are stuck with it and at least this card has decent fighters/fights on it, two things which have often not troubled Sky.

 

But if there is no money in it, and it is not hosted by a UK broadcaster, it will often be shunted off peak viewing time and be on a minor channel, so the lot of fans in the UK will be worsened. I'd rather get it live on Primetime than at midnight the following Monday on Sky Sports 4.

 

LOL at that guy trying to justify a fight in a America being ppv in the uk, aimed at making two multi millionaire boxers even more richer.

WTF does that **** have to do with the UK, this fight has no right to be PPV, it doesn't put money back into uk boxing or even boxing on uk tv, it makes a bunch of americans richer and a stupid ****ing **** of a boxer who burns money even richer.

**** the lot of them

 

I like your posts even when I disagree with them. It's better to burn out than to fade away, after all.

 

Leave Simon Templar along you bad, bad man. :|

 

I don't mind, we're never all going to agree - some would say that that is the enduring appeal of sport - and I appreciate his, er, direct approach to expressing his views. I can take it!

 

If i was homosexual i would bum you, you seem a very nice chap.