Three HBO PPVs in 6 months?!? HBO budget shrinking again?

So far HBO has the following tentative schedule/plan: January: Kovalev-Pascal on HBO February/March: Golovkin? On HBO? Or GGG staying on PPV? April: HBO PPV - Pacquiao May: HBO PPV - Canelo June: HBO PPV - Kovalev vs Stevenson - tentative (Duva says HBO & Main Events want to make that fight on PPV) PPVs in three consecutive months? Three PPVs in the first 6 months of the year (FOUR if GGG stays on PPV)? NOT GOOD for us boxing fans and paying customers. Seems like HBO's budget is shrinking again. Why else would they try to do Kovalev-Stevenson on PPV? I like how only one is a confirmed PPV and the rest or maybe PPV.... but screw it, i'll list them as definite

Pac-Diaz did 250k buys. Maybe it was the solis fight that did 100k? Doesn't make a difference either way, building up a ppv star from scratch doesn't happen over night is the point.

So what, Pacquiao only did like a 100k when he fought David Diaz. Than got lucky Oscar fought him and the rest is history. Chavez use to do like 50k on the ppvs he did but did 400k vs Martinez. If there are no stars willing to fight you, it's going to be hard to be a ppv draw from scratch. it doesn't mean a fighter isn't a draw. And some of these ppv events aren't even to make big $. There just meant to make sure everyone gets paid what they want, that's it. top rank use to do these kinds of ppvs with Cotto too. Floyd sold 400k ppvs for his last fight, but he was guaranteed 30 mill, Berto got like 6 or something. Thats a loss for Showtime despite better ppv numbers than GGG. Pac-Diaz did 250k buys.

Sorry that's strictly Canelo PPV star power, nothing to do with GGG. After the Canelo fight he'll go back to doing his 97k buys. So what, Pacquiao only did like a 100k when he fought David Diaz. Than got lucky Oscar fought him and the rest is history. Chavez use to do like 50k on the ppvs he did but did 400k vs Martinez. If there are no stars willing to fight you, it's going to be hard to be a ppv draw from scratch. it doesn't mean a fighter isn't a draw. And some of these ppv events aren't even to make big $. There just meant to make sure everyone gets paid what they want, that's it. top rank use to do these kinds of ppvs with Cotto too. Floyd sold 400k ppvs for his last fight, but he was guaranteed 30 mill, Berto got like 6 or something. Thats a loss for Showtime despite better ppv numbers than GGG.

He will get almost double then in 1 when he fights Canelo in September hating azz mfer lol Sorry that's strictly Canelo PPV star power, nothing to do with GGG. After the Canelo fight he'll go back to doing his 97k buys.

Lol, this is what a bunch of you lames wanted, "boxing is a business doe". You fell for it hook, line and sinker.

If they wanna cut their budget, HBO should just fire Jim Lampley. I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to find someone younger, cheaper, and more knowledgeable since Lampley don't know sh1t about boxing.

I dont mind paying for some of these. Kovalev vs pascal should be good. Kovalev vs Pascal is pointless and a waste of time. Kovalev won decisively, and Pascal has done nothing in the meantime to merit a rematch or to make anyone think the result would be any different a second time. (In fact, Pascal looked pretty average against Gonzalez.) There is no reason to do a rematch other than the fact that Main Events can't find another decent opponent so they're recycling Pascal.

I dont mind paying for some of these. Kovalev vs pascal should be good. I don't really get Kovalev vs Pascal II. Usually, rematches happen because the first fight was close. Kovalev stopped Pascal, & hardly got hurt himself.

Who said GGG is on ppv? di you see how much his last fight did? doubt it. Kovalev vs stevensen is PPV worthy. I would pay for pascal too.

So far HBO has the following tentative schedule/plan: January: Kovalev-Pascal on HBO February/March: Golovkin? On HBO? Or GGG staying on PPV? April: HBO PPV - Pacquiao May: HBO PPV - Canelo June: HBO PPV - Kovalev vs Stevenson - tentative (Duva says HBO & Main Events want to make that fight on PPV) PPVs in three consecutive months? Three PPVs in the first 6 months of the year (FOUR if GGG stays on PPV)? NOT GOOD for us boxing fans and paying customers. Seems like HBO's budget is shrinking again. Why else would they try to do Kovalev-Stevenson on PPV? I don't know if their budget is shrinking, but with these PPVs, their bank account will be getting FAT.

I dont mind paying for some of these. Kovalev vs pascal should be good.

GGG staying on PPV, he will get to 500k ppv's sold eventually. In 5 total fights. He will get almost double then in 1 when he fights Canelo in September hating azz mfer lol

GGG staying on PPV, he will get to 500k ppv's sold eventually. In 5 total fights. awwww, you made a funny. probably spent all day thinking it up..........

GGG staying on PPV, he will get to 500k ppv's sold eventually. In 5 total fights.

You sure about that $ for Kovalev? He didn't make more then that vs Pascal? If not then damn he's getting jobbed Apples and oranges. Kovalev-Pascal was on PPV in Canada - which actually helps the U.S. network. When a fight is in Canada and is a Canadian PPV, the U.S. network customarily pays less because there are greater revenues available from the other sources. So since Kovalev-Stevenson would likely be a Canadian PPV, that makes it even more affordable for HBO to put it on HBO.

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Haymon has driven prices up so high, what other option does hbo have? Showtime just paid 3+ million for less than 300k in ratings. So imagine what happens when fighters see that snd consistently bring in 1 million plus in ratings? What the promoter pays in purses isn't necessarily what the network pays for the fight. After all, the promoter also has the gate and foreign to use to pay the purse. If the purses were $3M, the likelihood is that the network paid some portion of that, and some portion of it came from foreign and the gate. In any event, ratings on premium TV have little to do with license fee. The fact that Jacobs-Quillin, a solid fight, did 400K viewers probably had as much to do with the fact that there were 3 college football games with national championship implications on directly opposite the fight than with the drawing power of the fighters. I think those three games totaled about 19,000,000 viewers, which undoubtedly reduced the boxing audience.

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I don't think that's accurate, at least with respect to Kovalev vs. Stevenson. Kovalev vs. Stevenson can be made relatively inexpensively. Kovalev has never made more than $750K. That fight can easily be fit into the customary big fight $3M license fee, so it's not big purses that are forcing this fight to PPV. You sure about that $ for Kovalev? He didn't make more then that vs Pascal? If not then damn he's getting jobbed