Gavin vs Brook: PPV or not?

Card - yes
Fight - no

 

Sky might be trying to take boxing on the old school WWE way of promotion- which is: Stack one sided or "squash" bouts on your regular show (Fight Night in Sky's case) and then tie up feuds, showcase superstars and decent 50/50 fights on PPV a few times a year. I suspect if buyrates are reasonable you'll see two or three more PPVs this year.

Hearn is already talking about Haye's comeback being PPV which seems to back up my theory.

 

No.

 

All these fights are mismatches? Explain to me how Mitchell/Linares is a mismatch or Selby/Gradovich, how about Hibbert/Ryan, Blackwell/Ryder, Cardle/Evans. None of those are mismatches and all interesting fights that I'd want to see.

Although it will probably be one sided Joshua is stepping up too. Brook/Gavin is more of a keep busy fight but Gavin isn't as bad as people are making out, and he's the next highest ranked contender in the IBF. If the PPV was being sold on that fight alone then fair enough but there's several other good fights unlike the Bellew/Cleverly card which was just full of names who were expected to win.

 

Mitchell is going to lose one sided to Linares. He isn't world level. He was done years ago when Burns destroyed him in 4 rounds. He had some good come back wins but nothing to warrant him being a PPV attraction.
Its completly insane that he was headlining this PPV before the inclusion of Brook vs Gavin.

The others are good fights , but there are what you should be seeing on regular Sky shows.
The standard of the cards this year has been terrible. Half this show over two Saturday nights and you get the standard which we should expect being a Sky customer.
Cramming it all into one night doesn't justify it being PPV.

PPV is reserved for a super fight being the headliner.

Only 3 years ago regular Sky cards looked like this.

Kell Brook- Carson Jones
Kerry Hope- Proska
Gavin Rees- Derry Mathews
Lee Purdy -Chris Johnson
Scott Cardle
Rocky Fielding
Kal Yafi

 

Yeah, I can see your point, the shows this year have been pretty awful. Just think this card is a really good card and if they are going to put on two PPVs a year, this isn't a bad card to be PPV. It's far better than Bellew/Cleverly and some of the other PPV cards over the years.

If it's not PPV are they going to have the money to get two world champions over and make these other good fights even if it was split over two shows? :think

 

hearns cards on sky are poor but his ppv cards are terrible considering ppv should be only for the very best cards and this fight is not a ppv level fight I wont be buying it

 

if you buy it then I pity you

 

3 brits fighting for world titles on same bill id pay 15 quid for this

 

Should probably not be PPV.

 

but you kind of do by paying the 40quid for skysports already.

after the football seasons out if sky don't give me loads more months of half price sports I'm cancelling and will just by the occasional day pass.

 

The whole card is the best there has been in years. As a stand alone fight it isn't ppv but the card is top quality. Whoever said the fights are all mismatches had no clue what so ever!

 

I'm going to the event so wether it is ppv won't affect me, if I wasn't going though I'd have no problem paying £15 for 3 world title fights of which 2 are 50/50s as well as 2 British title fights again both being 50/50. I'm not a fan of ppv on the whole to be honest but feel this card is a very good card.

 

Pathetic that this is on PPV. Being taken for absolute mugs yet again. I thought they said about 18 months ago that PPV was going tobe reserved for "special occasions"???

 

dont buy it then mate simple as that, hes holding boxing fans to ransome with the ppvs but this has got some decant fights on it too be fair all interesting apart from brook gavin which Is a mis match