This PPV stuff is getting out of hand. I mean, how much more are they going to try and bleed us? Hard enough for boxing fans as it is. Putting everything on PPV pushes away any chance of growing new fans. Benavidez/Plant - decent matchup. Good HBO main event back in the day. Davis/Garcia - probably justified on PPV Canelo/Ryder - absolutely ridiculous. Especially with DAZN increasing their yearly sub almost 150%. Haney/Loma - great matchup but I swear I thought I heard this was going to be an ESPN fight? Add in Fury/Usyk if that gets done and you have 5 PPV cards in 2 months. That’s just absurd. Pisses me off.
The only fights I would pay PPV for are Beterbiev vs Bivol Fury vs Usyk Crawford vs Spence has lost its lustre for me.
Also remember Deonte Wilder versus helenius was on pay-per-view. Yeah it's crazy because how are new fans going to discover the sport. The whole initial point of pay-per-view was if you were a huge star that everyone knew. Think De La Hoya Tyson Pacquiao and so on. Pay-per-view is not meant for guys that are not household names
Skip the Plant-Benavidez... Gonna be a huge mismatch. Garcia-Midget Yes. Lomachenko -Haney Yes Fury-Usyk Have to- Historic fight Clenelo-Ryder Pass. Boring mismatch. Pac-TBA Always buy a Pac fight
The only matchups that are bonafide PPVs that I would pay for: Tyson Fury vs any top name Gervonta Davis vs any top name Canelo vs Benavidez or Beterbiev Wilder vs a top name (AJ/Usyk/Joyce etc) When fights like Keith Thurman vs Mario Barrios, and Luis Ortiz vs Charles Martin are PPV, that’s how you know boxing’s business model is deeply flawed. All these PPVs are what is contributing to boxing’s lack of growth: it’s a large barrier of entry to the casual fan.
Only Fury/ Usyk and Loma/Haney can be considered PPV. Even then I somewhat disagree. When yuo consider Holmes/Cooney, Arguello/Mancini and Pryor, SRL/Benitez were all shown on regular TV.
Fury v Usyk Haney v Loma Those are ppv main events imo. Benavidez v Plant, CEJ v Benn, Garcia v Davis, none of those should be imo
Tank-Garcia will outsell Haney-Loma imo. I think its a PPV worthy fight, given the history between the 2 over the years.
It might outsell it, but that's a business issue. Loma and Haney are the best two LW fighters in the world.
What's the over / under for PPVs breaking the 140$ mark? I'm guessing about another decade. Just read someone referring to a 75$ PPV as one of the cheap ones.
While I fundamentally agree, I don´t see how this is anything new. We are back to good ol HBO days 2010s, when they were rivals with SHO(the years GPB went to SHO).
