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I'm from the UK and usually watch the UK broadcasts but having spent the past month in Korea, i ended up streaming the Golovkin fight from the HBO broadcast.
The end of this broadcast told me everything i need to know. They started talking about how they helped build Manny up as a star and spoke about a bunch of parallels and similarities they could find between Golovkin and Manny...
It seems to me HBO are getting desperate because they lost Floyd a while ago, Manny is on the way out. They have Canelo and Cotto but another loss to Canelo might damage him as a "PPV Star" and a loss to Cotto would do the same, he's approaching 35 too. After that, there's nobody.
They, or their broadcasters are desperate in their search for a guy who brings in the big money, they know it lines all of their pockets. So people talking about Golovkin and his team for the poor PPV sales when it seems to me it's actually HBO pushing the agenda more than anybody. They're trying to force something on to people that doesn't exist. I love GGG but he has no business on PPV right now but his team will go along with HBO because HBO even admitted at the end of the broadcast they had a helping hand in promoting Manny, now GGG.
The guys who work on the boxing shows know their bread and butter is the big money shows. It's another reason why commentary is often one sided, like in the Gonzalez fight, they're promoting their product. It's the same as Sky in the UK. They won't allow anyone to say anything negative about Anthony Joshua or his opponents because he's their next product because they don't have much to fall back on. Froch was their main guy and he's gone, Khan and Brook will only sell a big PPV when they're against each other or genuine household name like Pacquiao or Floyd. So they're in the business of feeding the illusion that Joshua is the future, that he's must watch, that he's a PPV star, so they do everything in their power to make people swallow it, as HBO do with certain fighters. And they know that should a guy like Golovkin or Joshua get beaten, people will point the finger at the fighters saying they weren't great, not at the networks who we're the ones pushing it onto people.
Just for the record, i think Golovkin is that good and a good ticket seller, but PPV? nah not yet, that just smells like HBO desperation in their quest for a new golden boy.
I don't think we'll ever really see guys getting good PPV numbers against limited opposition like we got with Manny or Floyd. Them days are gone and maybe the likes of HBO should accept it or they will keep producing numbers like 97k or whatever it is because thats the reality of the sport and its popularity in the coming years. Everyone's so desperate to line their pockets that they're forcing something that isn't there and it isn't working.
The end of this broadcast told me everything i need to know. They started talking about how they helped build Manny up as a star and spoke about a bunch of parallels and similarities they could find between Golovkin and Manny...
It seems to me HBO are getting desperate because they lost Floyd a while ago, Manny is on the way out. They have Canelo and Cotto but another loss to Canelo might damage him as a "PPV Star" and a loss to Cotto would do the same, he's approaching 35 too. After that, there's nobody.
They, or their broadcasters are desperate in their search for a guy who brings in the big money, they know it lines all of their pockets. So people talking about Golovkin and his team for the poor PPV sales when it seems to me it's actually HBO pushing the agenda more than anybody. They're trying to force something on to people that doesn't exist. I love GGG but he has no business on PPV right now but his team will go along with HBO because HBO even admitted at the end of the broadcast they had a helping hand in promoting Manny, now GGG.
The guys who work on the boxing shows know their bread and butter is the big money shows. It's another reason why commentary is often one sided, like in the Gonzalez fight, they're promoting their product. It's the same as Sky in the UK. They won't allow anyone to say anything negative about Anthony Joshua or his opponents because he's their next product because they don't have much to fall back on. Froch was their main guy and he's gone, Khan and Brook will only sell a big PPV when they're against each other or genuine household name like Pacquiao or Floyd. So they're in the business of feeding the illusion that Joshua is the future, that he's must watch, that he's a PPV star, so they do everything in their power to make people swallow it, as HBO do with certain fighters. And they know that should a guy like Golovkin or Joshua get beaten, people will point the finger at the fighters saying they weren't great, not at the networks who we're the ones pushing it onto people.
Just for the record, i think Golovkin is that good and a good ticket seller, but PPV? nah not yet, that just smells like HBO desperation in their quest for a new golden boy.
I don't think we'll ever really see guys getting good PPV numbers against limited opposition like we got with Manny or Floyd. Them days are gone and maybe the likes of HBO should accept it or they will keep producing numbers like 97k or whatever it is because thats the reality of the sport and its popularity in the coming years. Everyone's so desperate to line their pockets that they're forcing something that isn't there and it isn't working.
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