No. The PPV model is on it's death bed. "Advisor" Al Haymon is the worst promoter, or he does not let the promoters he has on payroll do their jobs properly. Mayweather is his main hoe who he sported around the business but he was a great self promoter, these other guys need promotion, radio, TV spots, even reaching out to the Youtube boxing reporters would help if they want to run that PPV game. The internet is undefeated and PPV is no match unless you pull a full circus act, May/Mac.
I don’t believe it is. In fact, there are very few PPV fights to be made. The Golovkin-Alvarez rematch and Wilder-Joshua are the two obvious ones. Crawford isn’t a draw. Spence hasn’t been on PPV. I don’t even believe Loma is ready. Mikey nope. Krusher vs who? Pac can do it again after his last performance if he gets a big name dance partner. Some fight of Spence/Thurman/Crawford maybe, but it won’t sell well.
how can it not be? 2 of the top 10 p4p, both undefeated, both world champions, garcia 4 weight world champion with unification wins, spence one of usa's top fighters with a world title and ranked 1 or 2 in the division
Purely because of the level of both fighters and the ridiculous nature of the challenge Garcia is taking. Neither man has the personality to make it a mega PPV though.
Not many fights are "PPV fights", and this doesn't seem to qualify due to the obvious size difference between the two. Spence would win pretty easily imo. But if enough shmucks are willing to buy it, then maybe it is.
no.. fans don't know Garcia. He has won easy titles and to boxing fans people think he is so well known, but he is not... And Spence is not yet a top guy.
both aren't mainstream guys but 120k ppv buys is feasible. at 80$ it'll generate 5mln USD to be split between two fighters (50% goes to cable tv providers) before taxes.
for the general standard the fans hold for PPV, i'm not sure it is. With the way the PPV climate seems to have gone and continues to move, i'd say it is. but this is coming from a UK perspective, so Americans may see it differently.
Is it gonna do well as far as numbers, IDK. Is it worth forking out money for compared to other PPVs we had, yes.
