Because it likely includes a couple of mega PPV's. That's my understanding of it. I may be wrong but it makes sense.
What can Warren do in the UK? What has he got to play with? Frampton might be finished. Warrington is signed up to fight Galahad. You'd like to think it would be time to make a move with the likes of Yarde, Dubois or Gorman but they just seem to be ticking along as normal. All I've heard from Frank of late was his confirmation that Dubois Gorman 'definitely happens' this year.
But why would they pay up front cash if they haven't even announced a fight never mind a PPV? I don't doubt Tyson could make 80m over the course of his next five fights, but it would need at the very least a Wilder rematch and a Joshua fight in that lot to do it, plus the PPV's would have to do decent business. Arum's not a mug is he. He's not offering Tyson tens of millions up front in order to see him spend two and a half years flapping around against the likes of Pulev whilst the audience including himself nods off.
Does he have to generate 80 million? ESPN simply have to keep their loyal subscribers happy. They must have an incredibly large budget. If they can have a succesful PPV on top of that, happy days. - Put Tyson on normal ESPN v a top ten opponent. Promote the fight on the various ESPN outlets. With a huge customer base, I'm sure it would do big viewing figures out of curiosity if nothing else. It's then up to Tyson to produce the goods. That's the gamble they're taking. - If Wilder or AJ aren't available, do the same again. All the while in theory Tyson's popularity grows. - Land the AJ or Wilder fight and put it on PPV. By now either should be huge. - Land the rematches/trilogy etc on PPV. It may not work out, but it's simple in theory and with the right backing and promotion, it could well work out.
Yes, it did 325k ppv’s, not surprised at £58 a pop. You keep going back to what happened before the first bell was rang...that fight does a lot more than the figure above because of the narrative from the first fight. Just to add, you keep saying over and over and over again that Fury is a boring fighter. Well, he was just involved in an epic fight. Try to think ‘post fight’ rather than ‘pre fight’ when predicting how another fight would sell.
So ol' chessmaster Bob is making big powerplays and has nicked MR's second-biggest fighter after Hearn lowballed him and generally ****ed him around re the Joshua re-match. Expect him to drop some redpills soon on the whole MR situ. Looking forward to it.
So instead of Whyte possibly fighting the likes of AJ, Povetkin and Usyk we are probably going to see him fight Jennings? Not sure how boxing fans are happy about this unless they make Whyte vs Fury soon which I can't see Arum doing.
Friendly reminder that he got f-ed over bigstyle for Joshua rematch originally planned for next month, which for some reason a lot seem to have forgotten.
Also with Football they know what they are getting. With boxing it changes all the time and replacements are quite common. Woth football, despite injuries you know you will still get Man utd v Liverpool on a set date.
A career high pay day with the chance to win 3 world titles and become number 1 HW is not what I call being ****ed over.
