Arum admits PPV is dead. What does this mean for boxing?

Boxing left out of luck and needs it own pay steaming channels , but then again its an contacting business done by fights

 

You're absolutely spot on. I think there are several issues at play here that are contributing to this. Promoters are trying to build up and save guys for that lottery pay day (think Saudi money or Canelo Peyday) and/or milk their guys against subpar competition while extracting money from the networks/DAZN (which seems to be working). IMO the networks (since there are so few) should reject a lot of these garbage cards that get put on television where we know the majority of the time whose winning

Give Charlo a stay busy fight before Tszyu, throw it on YouTube live stream or as a special attraction before a showtime card

 

So it's back to theaters like the 1970's? Do I need to rebuy my 1976 green AMC Gremlin?

 

That's the reason I didnt buy Fury/Whyte. The undercard was terrible. $80 for a meaningless main event? I'll pass.

 

This will solve the problem in PPV.
Between $15-28 depending on the matchup. Less cost can bring back More buyers.

 

$50 is good for top fights, with good undercard. not more.

usually it should be $20 with ok undercard.

 

Mayweather Canelo has Garcia Matthyse as chief support. Only one of note I can really think of.


Way too expensive. Would love it if Spence Crawford was 30 dollars. See what business they can do with that

 

The vast majority of ppl that pirate probably don't buy PPV at all. I agree.

Imagine I sold steaks for a living. If I offered a thousand people a free steak for dinner this week I would get a lot of people taking me up on that. Next week I charge full price. I'm not going to sell a thousand steaks. A large majority of those people are going to go to Mcdonalds instead. They were never even in the market to buy steaks to begin with.

Even if Bob could stop the illegal streams, the vast majority of people watching the stream will just read about the fight the next day.

 

Everything is overpriced in the US. The megarich are draining the place.

 

I've only paid for one PPV.... GGG vs Canelo. I wasn't happy about the draw at all.

 

The faltering if PPV is its own fault. Greed and shitty undercards are killing it.

 

The growing knowledge of illegal streams might have something to do with it too.

 

Fighters are going to have to accept lower purses then.

 

PPV is just not sustainable at any price. People who stream fights are going to still stream them even if the price drops to $5.