Eubank Sr believing Jr Vs Blackwell is PPV is actually shocking. This is the model that a lot of people on here warned about, this is what we the boxing fans have been left with, British title fights are now talked about as PPV events. Even the suggestion that Jr Vs Blackwell is a PPV fight is disgusting and just goes to show how far this has gone. This will teach all the people who come on here and bang on about the price (which is irrelevant) of a PPV show is like buying a few beers. This is what you have encouraged by folding and buying terrible cards and kissing Hearns backside on Twitter, you have now created a monster. Boxing fans are being skinned and brainwashed into believing every half decent fight is PPV worthy because the card is "stacked". Next time a PPV event is on go to the bookmakers and look at the odds before any of these events and tell me how many genuine 50/50 fights are on them involving Matchroom fighters. Hearn said he believes Boxnation is getting on a PPV channel soon. The only way this ridiculous situation is stopped is people stop buying into the hype and build up to these one sided mismatches and believing these are competitive and stop handing over money for average cards and fights.
What will also happen is more people will lose patience and investigate streaming, which lets face it will only get slicker and slicker as download speeds increase. Make it fair and keep the business, take the p1ss and drive the viewing underground and make sweet FA
BN do have PPV functionality, but just don't see what fights they get could make decent PPV revenues for them at all, if anything them going down the PPV route is more likely to screw them than sky putting gash on PPV
Here's part 2 for anyone that is bothered, not the same subjects, haven't watched it all yet so cant say if its worth watching or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LunmaYQBe0
He is looking at three PPVs by the Summer excluding Fury/Wlad. Joshua/Helenius doesn't strike me as a PPV fight but who knows now.
How could Chris eubank snr be so stupid. Burn bridges with matchroom and burn bridges with sky TV also Talk about career suicide. Where snr got the idea that fight vs Blackwell is s PPV fight I will never know. Joshua did over 400,000 buys!! God damn, that's unbelievable.. Anthony Joshua is a star...
Like it or not sky are majorly pleased with what Matchtroom provides. Other promoters may not like it but they clearly feel hearn delivers hence the long exclusive contract. ****** had plenty of chances with sky, he can't complain. I really don't understand what the eubank's are doing. They had a good thing going and sky could turn eubank jnr into a real star. Where is he gonna go now? Makes no sense at all!!!
Don't forget about Maloney. He constantly put on average leisure centre's. He had opportunity with sky to build something and never did enough to keep sky backing him.
Agree with N17. Hearn is slowly having a monopoly on our sport along with sky, slowly turning into the same situation in football which has skys dominating influence, to the cost of the fans. Hearn is verging on a conman, with the casuals launching their chequebooks at him. Get ready for a milking.
It's remarkable that eubank thinks his son can get on ppv asap. The froch example is great. Was taking fight after fight with little exposure, small money and it took time to get him to the place he wanted to be. Eubank Jnr has so much time on his hands. There is no rush.
The biggest problem with this debate with fans is the classification of fans between casual/enthusiasts. Supposedly 400k bought ppv and 20k turned up for Joshua maybe 10 percent of that number could actually name a single opponent Joshua and Whyte had fought previously. Hearn doesn't make his money pleasing people that come on this forum its all those casual's which brings him in the $$$ Lee/Saunders on paper should have been a cracking fight but no one showed up? Those with a continued interest with boxing did but it didn't capture the imagination of the public because no quality promotion. Ultimately whilst I don't like it the way Hearn runs his business is probably the best model there is at this point. You Brits complain about PPV in Australia we pay 15-20 pounds on PPV to watch fights shown on regular Showtime/HBO fights and 30 pounds to watch a 40 year old mundine fight.