is ppv killing boxing fans????

HBO directors have said that they don't make much from PPV, the fighters and promotors get a big chunk.

Free to air TV means fighters make less......yes that is true, but they would still make decent money and be seen by a bigger audience hence bigger endorsements. All the top stars (ie. Tiger Woods make much more through endorsements).

Also the free to air network still have to buy the fight and they will get decent advertising money......and in the long run it helps the sport, which is most important.

 

ppv has been around for ages.when it comes to boxing, mma, and pro wrestling all the marjor event will be ppv.most people should be use to it by now, besides they all have there little shows that come one a few times a week, regular cable or even the free stations.

is ppv killing boxing fans, simply put NO :verysad

 

i think if they put together better under cards on the pay per views then it would not be so bad.

 

Boxing is not popular enough in the US to justify putting it on main free to air channels....... because...... it has been on ppv and most people have lost touch with who the boxers are (and therefore lost interest) which means it has lost popularity.

PPV is like peeing in your pants to keep warm. It helps in the very short run, but later the situation is far worse.

 

You kidding?

I remember back when I was a kid, big name fighters would come on T.V. and people watched, because they established themselves as entertaining, AND talented. I remember watching Roy Jones Jr. come up, rockin' silver sequence trunks. The fights were popular because there was a reasonable talent pool, and you could watch great talent on venues like tuesday night fights on ESPN.

PPV was a way to maximise the profit of certain fights between certain fighters, because the popularity of those fighters had already been established through non pay T.V. Fighters like an up and comming Mike Tyson were on PPV.

Today, boxing has to rely heavily on older boxing fans because there is no reasonable platform to keep track of up and commers, there is hardly a platform to even know who the up and commers are.

You don't catch the sort of talent on non pay T.V. like a James Toney, or R.J.J.

My boxing fanatacism was initiated by my grandfather, who would watch fights, I like to be around him so I watched them, and came to really love boxing. From here, I was able to catch great matchups on Tuesday night fights, or at least be able to watch a very good fighters tune up, which IMO IS the best sort of advertisement possible.

Boxing isn't investing in its youth at all. Not on the streets (boxing gyms, since there are no longer funded programs for youth boxing in most places), and not on T.V. Is there any reason a fight like Forbes vs. ODLH shouldn't be on public T.V.?

 

I think it's a lack of "free" coverage on television that will ultimately spell disaster for boxing. A good comparison can be made with mma. The market share for mma is increasing at an incredible rate. They have an agressive marketing strategy with the foundation based on regularly scheduled television programming where you can see your favorite fighters on a regular basis. In boxing these days if a fighter does good on a televised bout, he is immediately whisked away to be nurtured for a big fight and so is set up with many easy touches untill a big money fight can be made with a "name" fighter. You don't get to know the fighters any longer, unless you are truly a hardcore fan, most of the fighters seem to materialize out of nowhere with sterling 28 & 0 records, ready to fight on a ppv. I'd really like the chance to follow a career, but I can't imagine how.