£12.95

Boxing will die if it continues to extort a small number of boxing fans for cards of this quality. This is not good for the sport.

 

I've seen other people type similar. I think you guys are putting yourselves in a tough spot though. You want cards that can only be funded through a PPV style model (whoever runs it) for free. Well, I also think that would be nice. Not likely though, is it.

In the meantime either pay or don't - but it's not the end of the world.

 

An ITV entrance to boxing is going to kill things?!

 

In the US they pay 5x as much for a card, I suppose boxing is dead there already so you may have a point.

In NZ we have to fork out twice as much for cards 10x worse

 

Good point from James there. Thanks James for letting us know NZ totally sucks.

 

Worth noting that the Primetime cards used to get around 35-50k buys.

With ITV behind them they should be aiming for that number at the very least.

 

Absolutely.

The huge UFC fights are on BT Sports without PPV and no wonder the public watch that these days instead of boxing.

 

Since the event was announced last year I have to admit I was a bit sceptical whether the event would actually take place.

I cancelled my Sky Sports monthly subscription and sometimes pay £6.99 for a day pass to watch a standard fight night show effectively making it PPV (for me anyway).

If I'm in on the 4th February twiddling my thumbs I might find the additional £5.96 and watch it tbh. At least with the undercard you can now put it more inline with a Matchroom standard fight night card.

 

I wont be buying this boxing event because the reason is i dont think its worth the money, so no i wont be buying it because of reasons and thats my reason
and i dont have a problem with promoters making money as long as theyre not ripping me off and in this case i think theyre trying to rip me off the same as i did for aj v molina and so i didnt buy that. The product doesnt deserve the price theyre asking.
If you think its worth it then buy it.
Personaly i dont think its worth it and i wont be buying it

 

Ten pounds says you buy it.

 

Your trolling..youve got to be, no one can speak this much crap, without an agenda.

 

Exactly. Shall we the good folk of ESB draw up a long list of things we'd rather spend £12.95 on and send it to Chris Eubank Senior?

 

A lot of fights that are being funded by poor selling PPVs would be better off being on terrestrial in the long run if there was any sort of consistency to the broadcasts.

As with many high grossing generously paying sports advertising is the key and all you need for that is high ratings which a well delivered set of programming would easily deliver IMO. It also removes steaming as a prob.

You could hold PPV in reserve knowing you had the cash to cover mega fights that everyone is willing to pay extra to make happen with a new larger following of the sport to market your PPV to.

 

But you gotta standardize the money, for example how much is big mac in US, UK and NZ?
It's like 4.50$ in US so we pay 13 big macs for our PPVs in US.

 

That would be awesome if it could happen again, in the 90's it was the norm
Those days seem like their long gone now though, and it has a lot to do with expectations of the fighters, promoters and networks.

You could call it greed and you would probably be right, but the cost of living has increased dramatically since then and almost everything is more expensive now.