Statement: PPV-boxers should be payed less, but there should be more PPV-stars on 1 card in order to maintain progress in PPV. As we all know, illegal streaming is booming right now + people can watch fights every second they want nowadays, so buying a regular PVV is not so attractive as it is used to be. Now, what would help: stacking a card with multiple PPV-worthy fights, like Alvarez-Mayweather. Not only was the main fight(Alvarez-Mayweather) great, but Garcia-Mathysse was also a fight that was great. Result: great PPV numbers. Look at the most PPV-fights of the last half year, excluding Mayweather-Alvarez, they all made pretty bad numbers. The reason is because buying a PPV is not so attractive anymore. The solution, like I said, would be a stacked PPV card. Not just a good undercard, but one with multiple PVV-stars. The only problem with this, is that it will cost more. Unless!, you pay the fighters less in order to make more fights. For example(let's assume that there is an imaginary world where Top Rank and GBP get well together): Main card: Pacquiao-Thurman Undercard: Mathysse-Provodnikov Danny Garcia-Tim Bradley These fights would do far better numbers in total than the fights would do if they were different PPV's. What do you think of this idea? PS: don't come with the BS of Mayweather-Maidana was a good card. Amir Khan-Collazo and Broner-Molina were not PPV-worthy, that was a big mistake of TMT and GBP to think that card would sell well.
No, the headliners attract outside of the hardcore fan base and deserve more. I tend to agree with arum that no one pays for the undercard.
Not with most of TR's undercards no. But with bigtimers and fights fans look forward to on the undercard, it's a big difference. I remember people joking about Matthysse vs Garcia being the main event on the Floyd vs Canelo card. That fight surely brought in a big # of additional PPV sales.
