Fights That Don't Belong on PPV

I am reading more and more about how promoters want to build certain fighters so that they can make them PPV stars, such as Broner and Alvarez. PPV used to be reserved only for megafights featuring megastars. Now, promoters will thrown anything on PPV because they think boxing fans are so stupid and gullible that they can feed us bulls..t if they promote it as filet mignon. There are very few fights and fighters out there today who actually belong on PPV and, for one, am tired of being told I have to pay or may have to pay $40 to $60 to see a decent fighter fight another decent fighter. Showtime. After De La Hoya lost to Mayweather, his next fight was against Steve Forbes, but it was not on PPV because De la Hoya knew that it was not a PPV worthy fight. Fights like Bradley/Marquez and Pacquaio/Rios should not be on PPV. No fight featuring Adrien Broner should be on PPV regardless of who he fights and no fight featuring Alvarez unless it against Cotto, Martinez or Cotto should be on PPV because, quite frankly, neither Alvarez or Broner are good enough to carry a PPV. I have been a boxing fan for 30 years, but if promoters start a trend where the only quality matchups they make are put on PPV, I will definitely stop watching it.

Comments (8)

Honestly you can probably count with one hand the PPV worthy fights we've had in the past 5-10 years... I agree thou that they do try put ANYONE at PPV now adays. It's either 2 descent fighters vs each other or a good fighter vs an eh ok fighter. I remember when cards were staked on a PPV event & best of all the main even was 2 guys that everyone actually did want to see go against each other. Now it's kinda predictable. I my self have stopped purchasing them. I go to a bar or freinds for a PPV. Plus most of the fights come out on show, hbo, espn, TV Azteca ect. Like this Broner vs Maidana card is pretty good, but in now way is it PPV material... Only if your new to watching boxing it might sound like a deal, but that should be a standard Saturday night card on hbo/show IMHO.

12y ago

Kev

Well PPV is relatively new in boxing. It's like it started back in the 40s, it started with in the mid 70s. But if you think about how long boxing has been around, PPV is actually pretty contemporary. You can't really give it an identity of what it used to be or what it is. Especially like it was mentioned, networks do it to make the money to pay the fighters.

12y ago

mrlopez

every fight other than manny v floyd, vitali v wlad, and canelo v chavez jr. DAMNNNNNNN, we can agree on something! lmao

12y ago

Sugar_Adam_Ali

pretty much every fight should be on regular tv, unless its a true superfight like floyd-manny, serg-chavez jr, the 1 or 2, maybe 3 fights a year should be ppv,,, this year, floyd-canelo should have been the only ppv, maybe klit-povetkin,,, but other than that- they should all be on regular tv,,,,, ppv is what is ruining boxing's popularity with the general masses,,,, Bring it back on free tv and you would see the popularity comeback like it was in the 60s-80s..

12y ago

Russian_Crushin

10 years ago there were like 15-20 PPVs a year! HBO alone would have close to a dozen PPVs. So it's actually got a lot better believe it or not. It's now at a point when there are really 2-3 a year (not including the tiny independent cards). 10 years ago we had a black box:alucard:

12y ago

NEETzsche

froch-groves

12y ago

Russian_Crushin

Fights go on PPV because the network cannot afford the purse. Marquez Bradley had $10 mil in the main event alone and Pac/Rios have like $25 mil +. HBO cant going to pay that, its not hard to understand.

12y ago

The_Big_Dunn

every fight other than manny v floyd, vitali v wlad, and canelo v chavez jr.

12y ago