Why PPV will die and is dying

Alex is totally brainwashed Floyd is his Charles Manson He's totally under his spell
Everyone that is honest & unbiased realise Mayweathers career was fabricated . He had the talent but not the heart & stones of a champion He had to cheat to get success

 

You might use alts Alex but that's something I'd NEVER do. The Mods can tell you that. Id rather pay to watch legitimate FIGHTS!! between two evenly matched clubfighters anytime than watch farces like Mayweather's Bull Feces for free. CJ has been in my screen names since I first got on the internet in the mid 90's on Prodigy. Probably before you were born LOL

 

I wasn't even talking about you lol shut up

 

Damn he's a coward too backing off Told ya he wasnt no Texan :silly

 

Lol I challenge you to prove this. Ask away [emoji38]

 

Where do you box?

 

I wouldn't discount the UK market. Haye and Joshua are pulling ungodly amounts of interest in that quarter. Remember that Froch v Groves II did big money and Froch alone netted 14 million. Put any two big UK fighters together and it will make money: CEJ v Saunders, Brook v Khan, etc.

 

They came back after De La Hoya/Trinidad.

 

What I want is access to the kind of fights I can't ordinarily get. That means archive footage of classic fights, and rare stuff from the developing world. I want a subscription service that maintains and restores old footage to look like new, and adds English commentary tracks to foreign bouts and silent film.

I'd also want documentaries on that service to give the When We Were Kings treatment to fighters like Matthew Saad Muhammad and Bobby Chacon.

 

Ridiculously high prices and ****ty undercards, lots of times sub par main events.

 

People seem to think the sport of Boxing will die off since the recent retirement of it's two biggest superstars, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

One thing people seem to leave out is that boxing is a sport run by it's superstars. For example, UFC fights get their audience because of the UFC brand. Boxing cards are watched because of the name of the boxer.

They said boxing will die after ali retired, the same when tyson retired, the same in the lead up to de la hoya-mayweather. They're now saying that boxing will die because mayweather retired.

I don't understand you when you say PPV is dying, when boxing PPV is booming in the UK. Seems to me you don't even follow the sport, if you did you'd know that Anthony Joshua is a huge PPV star over there. His fight (2 fights previous) brought in 400k+ PPV buys. (this is at least 400, could even be 700)

He has grown a lot since that fight, I can see joshua doing a million ppv buys for his fight with Breazeale this Saturday night. If not, definitely the next.

A megafight between fury and joshua could break 2 million buys. Boxing is absolutely booming in the UK & Ireland (sky).

Joshua will also break into the US market - and a megafight with deontay wilder could do very good numbers. I reckon AJ is the new face of boxing, not Canelo.

AJ is very will promoted, he provides knockouts, he's easy on the eye, he's built like a prison wall, he speaks english and has an honest personality. These are the fundamentals for a megastar. I've always thought heavyweight was the main division of boxing.
- of course, these are my own views. you may have your own and that's cool.


Provided that GGG fights Eubank jr next in england, this fight will also be PPV.
I reckon it does around 200k buys, maybe more if promoted properly. And will also fill a large stadium of around 40k people. This will be GGG's biggest ever fight before Canelo.

You also seem to have forgot about crawford as a draw.

Wilder is also a good draw - on NBC.

You've also seemed to have forgotten about David Lemieux, who will probably soon behind to headline cards again.

What about Keith Thurman and Shawn Porter? They are headlining a primetime fight on CBS, the first since ali. Thurman doing 3 million for his NBC debut.
Porter-Briner also doing around 2.4 million.

I could go on for longer... Just remember, PPV or Boxing will never die, there's too much money and too much recognition.

 

My concern is the falling HBO budget. That thing is a fourth of the size it was in 2000, NOT adjusting for inflation.

PBC is also in deep trouble as well. Poor ratings continue. Let's see how Porter Thurman does

 

No sign of it dying yet in UK, ask Hearn.