I assume that’s after he lost to AJ, Whyte shouldn’t be calling out a beaten fighter in all honesty. Hopefully that fight happens next after the Arreola fight. I don’t think Wilder fights either.
It tells you everything when the likes of Whyte and Chisora are PPV fighters. I wouldn’t pay tuppence extra on my subscription to watch them.
I think you will have to elaborate as to why the UK boxing stakeholders suggested this was a PPV fight. I'm not scriking on the internet. I've no problem with you or anyone else forking out money for non-title fights. IPTV subscription 60 quid a year and I get to watch all the evens for sweet fa. I'm a happy camper, I have actually changed things with regards to my own situation.
I do think there’s at least 5 active heavyweights that would knock out Whyte, maybe more, but he’s a decent contender and will continue to be in some entertaining scraps.
They’re lining up Trevor Bryan for the WBA regular belt. Surely there is no way Eddie can stick that on PPV. I mean he will but Jesus Christ.
He's probably got one last comical ko defeat in him so at least we have that to look forward to. By comical I mean he and Eddie seriously bigging up his chances, the Matchroom massive buying into it in every way possible and then boom, galia goulash
£20 ringside?! It is not the 1950s anymore. I would have thought a ringside ticket for a fight between two of the top twenty heavyweights in the world, has not come under three figures this side of 1980...
Actually no one can or should take anything from this victory. Povetkin looked so frail and old in there and his legs wobbled every time he moved. Ruiz is far too dangerous for Whyte and maybe even Wilder. I didn’t see anything last night that propelled him to a real contender level, just a win over a past sell by date boxer. 30yr old Povetkin would have embarrassed Whyte. Saying that I like Whyte as a fighter, he will fight anyone and he says how he feels no pretending he’s something he’s not. Hope he gets his fortune payday.
Boxing is about money, if Matchroom can get SKY to play along, a fight will be PPV. That has been the model since what? Bruno/TysonII?! The fancy cannot at the moment go to fights, so this is way to keep the sport going in its current model.
I get that. Do you think Whyte is worth the money he's demanding? What numbers did last night's card do? Did both parties get a return on investment. From a business perspective, I understand how it works but do you deem the fight big enough to stick on box office? I don't blame Matchroom, I don't blame Sky and I most certainly don't blame the fighters. I just think a fight of that magnitude shouldn't be PPV.
Fair points; my point is in the current world/market we live in, the fight is PPV quality. I agree, the fight lacked magnitude, but that standard has long since been eliminated by SKY et al. We as fans are lazy, we either pay the money (guilty) or find other ways of watching, we do not challenge the establishment. And moaning on this forum really is not a challenge.