It's a complete rip off, especially on top of sky subscription. PPV should be reserved for high profile British fighters in significant world title fights. Even Brook v Gavin was a rip off.
Can you imagine if you had to pay PPV for the Wimbledon final? Or the FA cup? The World darts? Hell even something from the states like the Superbowl? Boxing fans really do get it in the neck! £16.95 for a British title fight is shameful. I really used to like Hearn, he said when he started he wishes to reach out and grow boxing audiences. He was going so well, Froch-Bute and Brook-Hatton were on regular Sky and got record audiences! Who knows how far it could've gone.
It's a pretty solid card and one i would stay in for and like to see, but just nowhere near worth the additional £17 on top of your Sky subscription. Definitely in the top three or four domestic cards this year.
A British title fight, Bellew against a guy who's been KO'd by current WBC Champ Grigory Drozd, Mitchell fighting for an interim title, Campbell against Tom Bob Anderson and Josh Warrington defending an international belt.
Casuals who came round Saturday I asking about this one. On Saturday I went through a few names with them - GGG, Canelo, Kovalov etc. Not one flicker of recognition, but AJ v Whyte is a must see event. I don't really want them back so soon because they have no interest in the undercard
Wasn't it £!6.95 to watch the UNDISPUTED HW CHAMP OF THE WORLD a week ago? And now it's a pair of domestic HW's? Laughable. Realistically, these guys might not even be the best HW's in London! And we're getting charged £17 to see a derby? Ha, no. Disgraceful behaviour from Sky & Co.
BELIEVE ME....this win for aj will be the worst controversial desicion in history. ...aj will land a shot and ref will do a backflip amd stop the fight. ....eddie will pay judges and ref nice xmas bonus to make sure whyte doesn't win
It's just laughable PPV for a british title fight. No sensible boxing fan even pay the fee for a british boxer fighting for a european title right? Complete rip off, should be on regular sky. Only way sky and hearn stop doing this is we the public do not buy in numbers.
£17 to watch two of Britain's best Heavyweights from the comfort of your own home; I maybe getting old, but I will take it! Better than messing about getting to the O2 and blowing a couple hundred quid on poor views and poor beer.
It shouldn't be PPV but I personally would rather pay for a PPV with a good headline and a solid undercard, like this one but with a more significant headline fight, than one like Froch vs Groves I, where the undercard was absolute garbage but with a very good headline. Personally I see more value in a great card than one great fight. I do think this is a good card but the moment every good card is PPV is a bad thing for the fans.
isn't Eubank jr vs O'sullivan on the undercard too ?? I reckon that will be a right juicy punchy up, I don't really care if it's for a title or not !
It's a crazy decision to put this on PPV- it's just greed from Sky and Hearn. I suspect it will do a decent buy rate though.
