WLAD K2 and their "offers"

I don't doubt that it would be big. What I said is that it wouldn't do anywhere even close to 1 million buys. Do the math for a second. Probably 6 to 10 people watch a fight for every buy, right? They watch with friends or at a bar. To get 1 million buys from a population of 60 million (the UK) that means at least 1 out of every 10 households would have to order the fight. Ridiculous. As I said, Lewis vs. Holy did 1.2 million worldwide. Probably about 200,000 buys were from the UK. This wouldn't even do that.

 

I don't think the argument is that Haye deserves 50-50, it's that noises coming out of K2 is that 50-50 was offered and Haye rejected it which the other side are saying isn't the case.

It's a hard split to judge but as someone said Haye will sell over a million PPV's in the UK at £15 a pop (he sold 800k against Valuev) which will add a big slice to the pot as well as HBO saying they would be interested in picking up this fight.

 

Hatton vs Mayweather did more than a million buys in the UK and it went off at 4am.

 

rofl dude, u dont even know what does "paper champ" mean so please stop talking about it.

secondly Haye shouldnt even hold his paper belt as in reality wlad defeated the rightfull wba champion in chagaev. Haye holds this wba worthless belt only because of corruption.

 

Where's the link? Serious, do the math for a second. 4 people in the average home, right? One million buysatsch means 1 out of every 15 households in the UK bought the fight. Come on.

 

Haye doesnt deserve 50-50 and Wlad was vety generous to give him that share.Wlad is a real champ

 

I'd also like to see a link for that. Sounds unrealistic. Fair play if it's true though.

 

well Haye gets a lot of **** for taking on Barrett, yet who is Tua fighting next? that's right, Mr Barrett. I will be expecting the same amount of abuse being dished out.

 

According to Wikipedia, Hatton vs. Mayweather did 850,000 buys in the US. You're telling me that the fight was bigger in the UK with 1/6th the population than it was in the US....at 4 a.m. not less.

Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?

 

Klychko became the WBA champ when he beat Chagaev, yes Haye is a paper champ.

 

Tua doesn't call himself the savior of the division or even the champion of the world. Tua doesn't make tee shirts of decapitated Klits. He doesn't stop them when they are attending charity events to talk smack. You see where I'm going with this.

Your bargaining for Haye is ridiculous. "But what about, xyz, he fights **** fighters, go slag him off" :|

 

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Ricky Hatton shatters viewing record
By Gareth A Davies, Boxing Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:42am GMT 20/12/2007

The Ricky Hatton-Floyd Mayweather WBC welterweight showdown 11 days ago in Las Vegas will break all Sky Box Office pay-per-view records in the UK, with estimates as high as 1.2 million buys.

Bigger than Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson in 2002 (750,000 buys), greater than Frank Bruno-Mike Tyson in 1996 (660,000 buys), Hatton has outstripped the heavyweights. They are calling it 'The Hatton Phenomenon'. The signs were there even as the Mancunian lay prostrate on the canvas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in round 10 being counted out by referee Joe Cortez. Hatton's followers cared not, still cheering his name, still chanting of a 'Hatton Wonderland'.

The reality is that the Hatton 'Wonderland' is paved with gold. When the counting is done, the 29-year-old former carpet fitter from Hyde is set to earn between 15 and 20 million pounds from his prize fight with Mayweather, the greatest amount ever earned by an individual British sportsman for a single sporting event for the first loss of his 44-fight, ten-year career as a professional. Hatton's pay day is greater than linear world heavyweight champion Lewis earned for any of his US fight nights. This year Hatton will have earned almost 25 million pounds, and with his management team this week projecting five more fights in the next 24 months, Hatton could hang up his gloves in two years' time with over 45 million pounds in career earnings. No fight in his future, however, is likely to match the earning power of this contest, which captured the public imagination for a number of diverse reasons.

Although official Sky figures will not be known until late January 2008, the indications are that ppv buys on Sky Box Office are well over the million mark, and could climb as high as 1.4 million, creating revenue of 20 million pounds upwards. What is most surprising is that it will eclipse the Lewis-Tyson UK ppv buy record of 750,000 in 2002 by some margin. But the event also broke other records. Bookmakers reported 10 million pounds of betting on Hatton, more than had been staked on Lewis Hamilton to win the F1 drivers' championship, or on any other single British sportsman in history, a fact which distorted the odds for the contest against the world's No 1 pound for pound fighter, but which indicated huge public interest.

Since 1996, Sky Box Office has screened 40 pay-per-view boxing nights. The first domestic pay-per-view on Sky was in March 1996, the night Frank Bruno fought Mike Tyson in Las Vegas. Since then, diverse factors, involving the characters, the experience, the billing, the time of the fight, and indeed the mood of the nation, have affected ppv sales.

"It is about the experience, the occasion, a one-off. It's not so much about the boxing," said Barry Hearn, the sports promoter, now successfully taking Premier League darts around the country. "It is very much about the media, the momentum and the characters involved, and that's what you had here. It could be mud-wrestling, as long as the media are behind it. I haven't seen anything like promotion for this fight in the media for a very long time." It was billed as good versus evil, mouth versus manners, England versus the USA, with, significantly, Oscar De La Hoya, the promoter of this fight, consistently talking up Hatton's chances against Mayweather.

For the first time in ppv boxing history, this event will return more UK pay-per-view buys than in the USA. There were 850,000 domestic pay-per-view buys Stateside, representing $47 million US dollars in television revenue.

As records go, those buys represented the biggest pay-per-view fight in US history in a fight not involving Oscar De La Hoya, or the heavyweights Mike Tyson or Evander Holyfield. Earlier this year, on May 5, Mayweather's light-middleweight contest with De La Hoya broke numerous records. That including 2.4 million PPV buys, and with gate receipts a total income from the fight of 165 million US dollars, an all-time record. Hatton/Mayweather should generate, in both the UK and the USA, almost 100 million US dollars. In 2007 alone, HBO's eight boxing events sold 4.8 million units and generated $255 million US dollars. It broke the previous year record, set in 1999, of 4 million buys and $200 million US dollars.

Hatton has a long way to go before breaking the two ppv kings - De la Hoya and Mike Tyson. De La Hoya's events have generated 626.4 million US dollars in revenue, while Mike Tyson sits in second place with 545 million US dollars. In British terms, Hatton remains a phenomenon.

Pay per view on Sky Box Office

• Ricky Hatton v Floyd Mayweather (2007) 1,000,000 +

• Lennox Lewis v Mike Tyson (2002) 760,000

• Frank Bruno v Tyson (1996) 660,000

• Tyson v Evander Holyfield (1997) 550,000

• Tyson v Julius Francis (2000) 500,000

Pay per view in the US on HBO

• Oscar De La Hoya v Mayweather (2007) 2.4 million

• Tyson v Holyfield II (1997) 1.99 million

• De La Hoya v Felix Trinidad (1999) 1.4 million

 

:good Thanks.

 

I love how people rip K2's offers. If Haye can setup a better business proposal then why doesn't he run the event and make an offer to the Klits?

In over 2 years I have only ever heard of offers that the Klits made to Haye and Haye constantly kept saying the offers were bad. Why hasn't Haye/Booth ever made a single fight offer?

Some food for thought for the overly naive Haye defenders.