PPV prices are just ridiculous now!

PPV sucks ass. I wonder if the PPV cost would be 10-20$ would they make same type of money? Would the PPV buys increase so much?

I doubt it.

If im a awake i stream or get the match other on my pc on the very next day.

 

I don't know of any of our local bars showing the fight tonight. The local cable company charges an arm and a leg for a business to air these PPV events.

I spoke to a bar owner once to see if he was getting one of the Pac fights a few years ago and he told me it was something like $1000 for him to show it through the cable company. He'd then have to have some type cover charge to offset the expense and he didn't want to go that route.

I haven't gotten a PPV event in many years due to the cost. Like others have mentioned, I don't have a lot of friends that are so into boxing that they'd chip in for a fight, and that whole scenario goes against my grain. When I have folks over for anything, I don't expect them to pony up.

 

Not worth it unless it's like Hatton vs Mayweather or Manny vs Floyd or somebody like Canelo vs Mayweather.

Not Pac Man vs JMM Number 4!!!
WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT 3 TIMES, WHY ANOTHER?

 

**** that I ain't paying 70. I won't even get guys together for this. The ppv sales should suffer for this

 

Stop buying them! Thy raise the prices because people buy them. If we want to see the cost lowered. Stop buying them.

 

Why not? I paid from $300-500 a YEAR on PPV back in the 90s. Now I only pay around $200-$260 a year and now we don't have to deal with terrible fights on PPV as often as in the 90s.

People look at the $70 price tag and it looks intimidating. This is the American way, they would rather pay less throughout a time period even though in the end it equals more than what they would pay for upfront.

 

...I, like most people in today's economy, am cheap as ****. It isn't an option. You have to be in order to make ends meet. I don't even have a cable provider to order the ppv through! That alone saved me 80 bucks a month, nearly a thousand dollars per year. To generate that thousand dollars you need to make about 1800 before taxes. Think of it that way. To make 1800 bucks I need to work a couple of weeks. I am not going to do that , just so I can pay another couple hundred per year for the big boxing ppvs. I simply watch on the Internet the next day.

 

To take it a step further you pay 1800 before taxes for cable just to order a ppv, then let's say you ordor three 60 dollar ppvs. To generate 60 bucks you need to gross about 100. Now you have spent 2100 before taxes just to watch three boxing ppvs. The average income is about 40k in America. So that's just over 5% spent on watching tv. If it's worth it to you then great. But for most people it is just too much.

 

an older friend of mine said this about 90s boxing on ppv he said one night you'd get a barn burner the next it'd be a cuddlefest then the week after that you'd get guys so scared of getting hit they just ran and played paddy cake

he got sick of it by the 00's and just said to hell with it
we tried having him down for the delahoya vs hopkins fight and he wasn't having it ! lol he wanted no part of it

 

The reason for those prices is that pacman, the people's champ, is getting around 26 millions for the fight and that money has to come from someone's pockets. The fight is on basic cable where I live, you only have to watch a few commercials between rounds which isn't a big deal.

 

How come it's $70 in the USA, but "only" £15 here in the UK on PrimeTime? That's about $25.

 

It's the return of Gamboa; we're lucky they aren't charging $140

We also get to see Javier Fortuna knock out that pale Team Snooki fighter, really hope Hyland is getting a decent payday

 

Time difference.

 

Even fights at 10pm here are still only £15, I've never seen a PPV anymore than that here.

 

our gym in mass got busted 2 times for that 5 k fine and a 15 k fine cheaper to pay 70.00