Bellew v Haye 2 did 775,000 buys

They both sold the HELL out of the first fight. And it turned out to be massively entertaining with a surprise result, when it was supposed to be a freakshow, and it kind of was a freakshow but not the freakshow many anticipated, but I don't think anyone really went away unhappy with what they'd seen.

The 2nd fight was always going to sell on that basis. You have Haye fans thinking this will be retribution, he's gonna knock Bellew's head off like he should have done the first time, and Bellew fans thinking "same again".

They didn't even have to sell the 2nd fight to sell it!

 

£15 for a ppv was alot back then. Its only risen by £5 since then. Social media and the internet in general has had a huge part to play also and not forgetting the mastermind behind it all, Eddeh

 

Mayweather vs McGregor did 1.1 million at 5am

 

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So going by the Barb Figures. These are the Sky Sports Box Office Numbers For these PPV fights: Mayweather v Pacquaio (May 2015)- 876K. Brook v Gavin (May 2015)- 139K Joshua v Whyte (December 2015)- 660K. Joshua v Martin (April 2016)- 964K. Joshua v Breazeale (June 2016)- 512K. Golovkin v Brook (September 2016)- 644K. Joshua v Molina (December 2016)- 606K. Haye v Bellew (March 2017)- 1.4M (Hesitant). Joshua v Klitschko (April 2017)- 1.5M. Brook v Spence (May 2017)- 275K. Mayweather v Mcgregor (August 2017)- 874K. Joshua v Takam (October 2017)- 887K. Joshua v Parker (March 2018)- 1.4M. Haye V Bellew 2 (May 2018)- 775K. I was wrong most are certainly realistic and accurate bar Haye Bellew 1.

 

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nah, it was his first world title fight and a lot of hype around it, i still dont know how Haye-Bellew 1 and 2 done so well. Brook-Spence done poorly. Mayweather-Pac/Mcgregor also did not break UK PPV Records which was heavily reported

 

Yeah another fight that disproves this ridiculous notion that you see on ESB where people predict ppv numbers on the amount of friends they speak to who are not talking about the fight.

AJ is guaranteed money every single fight.

 

i pay for PPVs coz i want to watch boxing, its that simple. i didnt have any excitement whatsoever for Parker/Fury and i bought that. I just enjoy watching boxing and am willing to spend my money watching what i love, and theres not one person on this forum or in real life who can tell me how to spend the money that I earn. it really isnt that much, people spend A LOT more throughout the year on things they dont need or things they dont use.

 

It said "early indications". A Sky Sports Representative did not confirm it directly. However their is a chance the Barbs rating could be wrong. It states Haye Bellew 1 done 1.4M Buys and Mayweather v Pacquiao only done 876K.

 

This is why we get rubbish PPV's. If that many people were willing to buy that then expect the quality to keep going down and the price keep going up. We will soon be paying American prices for the real big fights like AJ vs Wilder or Fury.

 

course not, and not everyone is in a position to indiscriminately buy fights. i think if a fight has that "WWE" feel, casuals will buy it, and it think thats what happened with Haye/bellew 1 but the 2nd fight i do not get, that fight was a foregone conclusion i think.

 

Truth. I love boxing and have no problem with buying ppv's, if not i would just spend the money on other sh!t i dont need. Plus if i didn't want to pay for it i wouldnt watch it, simple as that. I wouldnt get my knickers in a twist and start venting on a forum lol...

 

You're right about the WWE feel to the first fight. As for the 2nd fight being a foregone conclusion, well you say that, but Haye was still the clear bookies favourite (I think around 4/6 for the win, Bellew around 2/1 I think). I was keeping an eye on the price and it didn't move much at all in the 3 weeks leading up to the fight, and personally, I wasn't confident enough to bet on it either way, hindsight is 20/20 and all that.

I think a lot of people didn't realise just quite how shot Haye was, even the people on here predicting Bellew would knock Haye out didn't predict an early KO.

They say the best con is the one where the mark doesn't even realise he's been conned. I think that applies quite neatly to Haye/Bellew II.