why not have fights on regular tv?

preaching to the choir buddy

 

It's just not a mainstream sport anymore. Blame PPV.

 

I'm wondering that it might be a corrupt sport ran & played by very greedy personalities?-too may weight classes & too many governing bodies & too many belts?

 

I miss Fox's Saturday Night Fights...sure, the whole series was started through that joke Tyson-McNeely fight, but they put on some good cards up until they canned the series 10 years ago. I remember I first saw Hopkins fight on there.

 

Do the match $55 PPV at 2 million buys. $110 million gross. Mayweather-Pacquiao would not touch Super Bowl ratings, not even close. But even if they could get a $500k per 30 second commercial, there is only a minute in between rounds. The fighters would be giving up tens of millions.

 

I would absolutely love if the major fights were on regular tv. Boxing wold be a bigger sport now for it.

 

Don King started this PPV crap years ago.

 

No money in it. They'd have to get some serious sponsorship going on. Plus, no major network would pick it up nowadays.

 

The old days are gone.

 

I think boxing on regular TV would be the best thing that can happen to boxing, but it is not going to happen. The point of Network TV is to sell advertising. If a fight is compelling and lasts 12 or even 10 rounds than people will watch. However if the fight is boring or ends quickly than the Network can lose money.

My soulition is for the network to sell sponsership for the whole fight. Such as NBC Fight Night Presanted by AT&T. Like in soccer the AT&T logo would be up on the screan the whole time.

 

Possibly if a fighter who was good enough signed a deal with a TV network and then with the extra viewers he could improve himself as a brand and bring in more endorsements for himself in the long run. Which in the end would keep most of the money away from the Jewish media mafia and in his own pocket. A certain Audley Harrison tried to do this after he won Gold in the olympics.

 

Boxing is far too criminalized for even television executives to take a chance on the sport anymore. Didn't Tyson have a free fight scheduled on one of the major networks and backed out at the last minute? Last nail in the coffin. Boxing had a few moments in the light and it withered. I think it likes it in the shadows better, on ppv just like porn.

 

Vitali vs Briggs has set a new record for Klitschko fights on German free-to-air TV:

13.3 million viewers, 57.2% market share