Tyson Luke Fury vs. Francis Zavier Ngannou

300k.

 

East coast 1pm, west coast 10am.

 

• Main event ringwalks (approx): 5:40 p.m. ET / 10:40 p.m. UK / 12:40 a.m. AST (Sunday)

 

Oh I thought you meant the start time for the PPV. Yeah octavius is correct with walkout times for the Main Event.

 

200k U.S. ppv buys. I'd be very surprised if it went much over.

 

Tyson Fury is slowly becoming the New BUTTERBEAN !

 

Based on available appearances, Fury does look thinner and reasonably fit.

However long the odds are against him - I’d like to see Ngannou go all in (his best chance for a win) rather than trying to last a relatively admirable X number of rounds if not the whole distance.

If Francis isn’t already well and truly set up to lose, his trying to pace and last rounds will only set him up even more so.

I hope Mike Tyson, reflecting himself somewhat, is actually training Ngannou to release an intense 2-3 round bombardment - at least as best as Francis can manage.

 

You nailed it. This is the only way I would approach it.

 

It's promoted very well

Most of the PPV audience will be UFC fans

Over 1m PPV buys easily

 

It will go big despite some being so determined it won't.

400,000 plus I suspect.

 

MMA fans and casuals will lap it up. So I expect it will do in the million range. Fact is hardcore boxing fans who don't care much about this fight are a minority when it comes to overall PPV numbers on big events, while we are the back bone of the fanbase in boxing there's not enough of us alone to make a PPV event sell huge numbers.

 

1.3m

 

With the amount of money being thrown around promoting it, you'd hope it would be the biggest fight of the year. Otherwise, it will reflect very badly on Fury and pro-boxing. Especially if the numbers are significantly lower than a Misfits event. Not that I'll be buying it, though.

Having said that, even if it doesn't do well, we all know the play book by now: Warren will just pretend he has forgotten what the numbers actually were, then give some pie in the sky estimate in the build-up to Fury's next fight.

 

Christ, can you imagine if this was actually a real fight, and how irresponsible it would be given the potential fallout.

Ngannou is not only a boxing novice, but he will also have been out of the ring for nearly 2 years, coming off a knee surgery, oh and did I mention he is now 37 years old... So, who are they matching him against in his boxing debut?... The World Heavy Weight Champion.

It would basically be a playground question of how many millions would it take to let me give you brain damage in a legalized and very public beating.
Jeezuz! It would be the end of boxing.


hmm...I'm going Ngannou on points