Whyte Chisora PPV is a step to far

Benn McClellan was free on ITV!

 

Why does this have to be a Sky/Matchroom thing? Frank Warren was putting Khan v Prescott and Harrison v Rogan on PPV more than ten years ago and in Hearns position he'd be doing the same thing.

I've said all along; a fight is PPV worthy or not if it sells. It's nothing to do with what's on the line, or who has the best record, or anything like that. If this does 50k it's a dismal failure. If it does 500k it's a brilliant result. That's all that matters.

 

I came here to respond with Haye vs Ruiz for the UK, but @caligula4 already came up with that one early in the thread.

 

It is a great fight, first one was quality, then both are coming off very good wins

Eddie has explained about purses 10 million times, he probably couldn't put this fight on without PPV.

This will be more exciting than feather fist yob from leeds and frampton.

 

After Chisora stunk the gaff out against Kabayel, if you said 2 years later that man would headline a PPV, you'd be laughed at.

 

is this sarcasm?

 

It's not really the losses, it's more who they are to. Roberto Duran had lots of losses but fought the best at multiple weights. And he was competitive in almost all of his losses. Where as Chisora has losses to Sugar Helenius, Agit Kabayal, Kubrat Pudding etc. as well as being completely destroyed by a shot Haye and a green Fury.

 

I think that’s it. The only people of any note you could say Chisora has beaten are Kevin Johnson, whose claim to fame was getting battered for 12 rounds by Vitali, and Takam, who seems to have taken on some incredible mythical status because Joshua didn’t floor him in the first 2 rounds.

He’s a good character no doubt, but in terms of his boxing career he has done absolutely nothing to justify headlining a PPV. I’m not sure Whyte really has either but at least he has beaten a former belt holder in Parker.

 

Again, move away from the achievements in the ring and look at the business side. Whyte has headlined a PPV card which did over 400k buys. That is all the justification you need.

I think this boils down to people, and I can't really disagree with them, who'd like to see fighters who take on challenging opponents at the highest level deserving to earn more money. But that's just not how the business works or has worked for a very long time. You can make money by winning, but you need to make people want to watch you if you're after a fortune.

 

You are quite correct, if it make a money, it makes sense. And if it's , A pudding vs A can. if it sells it makes sense.
However the posts above yours are quite right as well. Whyte and especially delboys resume aren't ppv worthy.
We have the choice. I won't be buying it

 

It was but different times. Ask yourself if Benn v G man would be on terrestrial tv now and the answer is a clear no.

Nigel Benn would be cashing in on his popularity via PPV and who would blame him.

 

Allen-Webb is an area level fight.

 

It has only been one year since that fight to be correct, crazy indeed.

 

It's not a 'great' fight. Not in anyone's imagination

Golovkin-Canelo was a great fight. SSR-Gonzalez was great. Spence-Crawford would be a great fight.

This is absolutely nothing of the sort. The first fight was a lot of fun but it was two mediocre HW's fighting gassed out completely void of skill. It was basically a level above Kownacki-Martin.

For the record, Breazeale-Ugohnoh was just as good.

'Feather fisted yob' just gave us a really good fight against Selby. Whyte is unlikely to go to war again. He'll try to box Chisora (like KABAYEL did) and make it dull. Chisora was getting absolutely pasted by Takam, which really should go down as one of the greatest turn arounds in recent time.

 

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