£40 For Fury vs Joshua?

£49.99 bargain for a mammoth clash like this. No problem at all paying that.

 

Speak for yourself - that might be pocket money for you but not for me lad!

 

Ha fair enough mate. All the best!

 

I won’t be buying it if that’s the price. Funny way of increases being the new norm.

Market is saturated with PPV now with Whyte and Del Boy having all their fights on it.

Fury AJ is PPV worthy obviously but to go above £25 is not on. It will do 2+ mil anyway and they are probably fighting in the Middle East with huge site fees etc, how much money do they need. Both will get £50mil from this that should be enough.

 

I would pay £40 no problem

 

Cmon guys, 40 pounds barely gets you a basic meal for 2 in London. It isn't that much for such an entertainment event and yes i appreciate it is more money to some than others.

Not hard to get a few friends together to share the cost if money is an issue

For this fight, it's not just about the actual fight. It's like going on a luxury holiday, the planning, research and anticipation are as much fun as the actual holiday.

The build up, the hype, the banter with mates leading up to the fight, as much fun as the actual fight.

 

The problem is, where do you stop then? If this is worth £40 then they won't just drop back to down £25. They'll market an AJ vs Whyte fight as "do or die, winner takes all" and make that £40 too.

On a separate note, when the fack did it increase from £14.99 to £25? How the fack have they got away with this?

 

You're a marketer's dream! Great consumer.

 

£50 isn't enough for me, if it was £75 then I could sleep better at night knowing that AJ will soon be able to fulfill his dream of buying the entire continent of Africa.

 

This is very poor, ill conceived logic which is easy to pick apart- it's also ultimately detrimental to the sport as whole.

Firstly, your initial example of a meal in London for two- well, the vast majority of people in this country don't live in London so not sure what relevance that has? You have obviously chosen it as it's relatively speaking a expensive town to eat- but every city has a broad spread of eating options so that's not really relevant. Cost Y vs cost X is never a good road to go down as you end up comparing things which in the end are totally unrelated.

The main problem though with the 'it's only 40' 'it's only 50' etc argument is that by saying that you are automatically excluding potentially huge numbers of people from watching this type of fight, and others like it in the future as the prices just climb and climb. Especially in the long term.

How can that be a good thing?

So suddenly people have to invite other people to their house, as boxing is so expensive they can't watch it alone? That's an acceptable argument for huge PPV increases is it? What if their friends don't like boxing and have zero interest in it? It is a niche sport, it may come as a shock to you but most people actually DON'T watch boxing, PPV or otherwise. Again the net result is more and more people excluded from the sport as prices have risen too much, too quickly purely because of promoters and fighters rampant greed.

Lastly, I am not against PPV in all cases. I have said before on here it clearly has a place. I have paid for various PPV fights on various networks when it has been worth it. But not at any price, or under any circumstance, and there is a limit to what can be justified- not by me financially as an individual necessarily but as an acceptable price generally and as a fair balance.

 

You’ve been hanging around with Eddie Hearn too much.

 

I'll pay £40 on the condition that Fury doesn't sing.

 

Sky and BT pay £11m per match to show likes of Burnley v Fulham. So they should dig deep and put a rights fee up for this fight. Even if it was to keep PPV price down. Could say existing customers pay x non customers pay more and use it as a way to increase overall subscriber numbers.

 

I’d pay £40 but I’d moan about it in the run up.

 

I haven't saw £40 mentioned anywhere else apart from here but it if that's the rumoured price going around then maybe Sky have leaked that info themselves to get people moaning about the price, then they announce it being £30 and everybody is pleased that it's not £40 and Sky still get to gradually increase their price for a PPV.