Haye v Fury - PPV worthy?

What?! So Haye and Fury aren't top 10 heavyweights? Fury isn't unbeaten and often in exciting fights? Haye isn't a former two-weight world champion with ridiculous power? Both haven't had substantial terrestrial TV coverage? Yes, if you put all those things aside, then it just about their outspoken personalities.

 

Don't feed the trolls please

 

Me and over 300k others then haha. If building a draw was only about talent and achievement, HBO wouldn't be dropping Rigondeaux.

 

You're right... it's awful that star power matters as much as talent; unlike any other sport of course. Terrible too that this circus will introduce new fans to boxing, who will help sustain the sport going forward. Also bad that all the undercard fighters will be seen by the biggest audience of their careers, allowing them to further build their own fanbases. There are literally no positives.

 

Just answer one question.

Will this fight entertain the viewing public?

 

No, it is purely based on marketing and talking ****. Fury isn't even a Sky fighter but suddenly they are uber interested when he talks **** to make a fight happen.

People are mugs for marketing, I'm one of them sometimes. Sky will spend the next few months telling us to buy this fight and we'll believe them. Khan Prescott, Haye Harrison etc Embarrassing that anyone buys such fights. I can at least claim not to have been mugged off by those 2 PPVs but generally its about marketing.

Sky could market a number of other fights, get the fighters to talk ****, and then you'd believe it was a must see fight.

 

The casual boxing fan is much more interested in Haye v Fury than Froch v Kessler.

Froch v Kessler is a more worthy fight, but that alone isn't enough.

 

Whatever you think about the merits of this fight you can't ignore the public stir it creates and that's all that matters in certain parts of tv boxing land now more than ever.

It's whoever creates the stir. I mean look at tonight's Hull card; the fights I'm looking forward to most are the Matthews and Selby bouts but they've barely been mentioned in the build up.

 

We could flip that and say Froch/Kessler was just another super 6 fight with 2 guys fighting for second place in the division, whats PPV worthy about that?

See how it works?

 

I don't know what point you are trying to make?

Froch v Kessler is a better fight with two evenly matched opponents, operating at a higher level.

Haye v Fury has the potential to be very entertaining as well for different reasons. Two big characters, two punchers and plenty of needle. This fight cannot be compared to Haye v Harrison.

 

Solaris.... can i go out on a limb and say you don't rate Fury.......every post seems to indicate that