(Open Letter) Dear Top Rank, enough JCC Jr.-headlined PPV's.

PLEASE! You're only embarassing yourself. The cheap price tags aren't fooling anyone, there's no way you're selling enough of these to make it worthwhile. I know you're trying to build a profitable name but you're going about it all wrong. If you have the dosh to stage a PPV, there's got to be some better cards you can scrape together, you're not a terrible stable.

 

Yeah but they have to pay the venue, and all the third-parties involved with arranging and broadcasting the event, and the fighters...and I'm sure even though he's on the undercard Arce's salary demands have to be a lot steeper than the average $20 undercard fighter. They can't be making a ton of profit. I wouldn't be surprised if they were hedging their bets on JCC Jr. becoming a superstar and paying off for them later, but taking a hit or barely breaking even in the meantime.

And I hope you're not serious, six of these would come out to $120 worth of Chavez Junior PPV with pisspoor production and guys like Arce and Concepcion being fed cans! atsch

 

It's likely regional fans, all clustered in one geographic area, or pockets here and there with strong Mexican fanbases. And even they will grow unwilling to part with their money so often unless he brings a little more excitement to his own fights or they become padded with better preliminaries. I don't see those sale numbers as being sustainable at the current rate.

And if it's $35 that's just absolutely unforgivable for JCC Jr vs. ANYBODY, no matter WHAT the undercard. $20 was bad enough...

 

I'd LOVE to kick back with a beer and watch that...on Wednesday Night Fights. :good

 

You're missing out, those channels put on cards that occasionally rival or surpass some VS and ESPN cards.

And that's the level that Mr. Metaphyte belongs on until his balls drop.

 

Well I am - it's **** like this that turns people off boxing. Say a casual fan who's heard of his old man pays thirty five bucks for one of Julio's Top Rank PPV's. They inevitably get a steaming pile of boring, and say "this is the best the sport of boxing can provide right now? this is a Pay-Per-View event??" (not realizing that Top Rank's shows are the redheaded stepchild of the sport) and another ones bites the dust.