PPV Price Tags Over The Years (80s, 90s, 00s to the present)

A lot of folks havd been complaing about the recent Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury PPV Pricing. It was priced at $64.95 Regular and $74.95 HD. So I did a little research to see how much previous PPV match-ups were priced. Also while researching, in the 80s and 90s the cable provider could price it at their discretion. So, one cable company may have this price and another $10 more or less. That is why some have two prices. The ones after 2010ish, I will just list the HD price, which is $10 more than the regular price. Fighters | Price | Year Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns | $15.00 | 1981 Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvin Hagler | $34.95-$39.95 | 1987 Thomas Hearns-James Kinchen | $19.95 | 1988 Sugar Ray Leonard-Donny Lalonde | $29.95 | 1988 Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns II | $34.95-$49.95 | 1989 Evander Holyfield-Buster Douglas | $39.95-$49.95 | 1990 Evander Holyfield-George Forman | $34.95 | 1991 Julio Cesar Chavez-Pernell Whittaker | $29.95 | 1993 Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield I | $34.95-$59.95 | 1996 Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales | $39.95 | 2002 Larry Holmes-Butterbean | $19.95 | 2002 Antonio Tarvar-Roy Jones Jr. | $49.95 | 2005 Manny Pacquaio-Erik Morales | $44.95 | 2005 Winky Wright-Felix Trinidad | $49.95 | 2005 Floyd Mayweather-Carlos Baldimor | $44.95 | 2006 Evander Holyfield-Fres Quendo | $44.95 | 2006 Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather | $54.99 | 2007 Joe Calzaghe-Roy Jones Jr.| $49.95 | 2008 Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez | $49.95 | 2009 Roy Jones Jr.-Benard Hopkins II | $49.95 | 2010 Roy Jones Jr.-Max Alexander | $9.95 | 2011 Erik Morales-Marcos Maidana | $49.95 | 2011 Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson | $54.95 | 2011 Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito II | $54.95 | 2011 Floyd Mayweather-Canelo Alvarez | $74.95 | 2013 Timothy Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez | $64.95 | 2013 Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana II $74.99 5| 2014 Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao | $99.95 | 2015 Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux | $59.95 | 2015 Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol | $59.95 | 2016 Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan | $69.95 | 2016 Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalez | $69.95 | 2016 Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalez II | $64.95 | 2017 Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin | $79.95 | 2017 Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin II | $84.95 | 2018 Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury | $74.95 | 2018

Comments (20)

You are crying at a man because he refuses to be a pawn in other men's games and calling him the child? Refusing to assist in making change is what makes you the pawn. You can work within the system to become king or you can over throw the system to become king. But you'll never become king refusing to participate.

7y ago

Kezzer

Considering inflation, it's not as crazy as people make it out to be. The thing that impresses me is that PPVs used to vary in price a lot. Now, anything on PPV is top dollar. They're bleeding the loyal fans, rather than growing the industry, which is why I believe the promoters are the cancer of the sport. Inflation is the key comparison, it is also interesting they kept spitting out remarks about 2nd highest turnover at staple center for a boxing match. I was more interested in how many boxing matches had there been and what it ranked in “real terms”; given they refused to answer questions along those lines I’m assuming the gate was as poor as people made out.

7y ago

Toffee

I pay it, but if money was tighter I'd struggle to justify it. The strangest thing about boxing PPV is that you don't know what you're going to get. People in Australia just paid more for Horn v Mundine's one minute fight than they did for the Fury v Wilder 12 rounder. If I was a casual follower then the model just wouldn't make sense to me. I agree with the poster above comparing to Netflix and Spotify. Work on a subscription model. Instead of taking $50 every so often, charge me $120 a year. Under this model I couldn't even watch a replay of Fury Wilder a couple of days later. They wanted to charge me another $50!

7y ago

I could not look myself in the face in a mirror knowing I voted for Trump. Or Hillary. If one person was going to rape and murder 30 children if put in charge and the other was going to rape and murder 25 children if put in charge, to remain agnostic is irresponsible and immature. Real adults make tough choices.

7y ago

Banderivets

PPV prices are nuts. I understand that some people use the argument that people pitch in and have PPV parties but that's not really the case anymore. These are not the days of mega stars like Tyson, and the only PPV parties I went to in my time where Manny P fights because I have a lot of Filipino friends and those guys would have their grandmothers up at midnight watching the fight 20 deep in a single room. I usually have friends over for fight nights, but they don't really watch, people socialize and boxing is just on the TV with myself pinned to the screen and everyone else casually peaking in. So prices are just too much for me and a friend to split on.....100$ on PPV, 50$ on beer another 40$ on pizza........That's a 200$ stay at home night....fqck that. 20$ is what I'd pay. 200$ I'm taking the wife out on a date not watching the TV at home. If they want to start piracy they need to find a price point at which people will just dish out the cash for a fight. Look at the music industry...Why bother finding illegal music sources if you can just get Spotify for 10$ or whatever and have everything. Look at Netflix and Amazon Prime....I used to pirate everything now I just don't bother.

7y ago

PPV is like buggy whips were more than a century ago. With streaming apps in vogue, we will see PPV fights disappear. DAZN and ESPN+ have many of the good fights, and other fights are on Fox. HBO has left boxing, and I'd bet Showtime is not far behind. I do blame you because you voted for somebody with absolutely no chance of winning, instead of doing your part to prevent a catastrophe. Very irresponsible and immature.

7y ago

MasterPlan

Are the prices adjusted for inflation? Those are the prices and what year they happened in.

7y ago

RGJTMMRDCMJRJSM

Are the prices adjusted for inflation?

7y ago

MasterPlan

Two things, These prices, drive away the common viewer not building the brand or "stars". Drove people to stream. Is the super bowl on PPV? NBA finals ect? It's hard to compare those sports to boxing. Anf not so the competition aspect but the money aspect. How a fighter get paid is different than how a LeBron James gets paid. But as far as Super Bowl and NBA on PPV, no. But they're trying to get it back into the mainstream on stations like Fox and ESPN. Every now and then they will stick a fight on PPV to really get the fighter paid. Im a few years if boxing takes off to how it once was then a huge fight csm happen on network TV and PPV will actually only be used for the small fights that hardcore fans want to see and not the other way around.

7y ago

Mr365

those Postol-Bud, SOG-SOK & G Jacobs, David matches flopped

7y ago

B-Hop vs Chad Dawson was a $55 PPV? I remember watching on HBO for some reason and B-Hop getting body slammed lol. The first fight bombed on PPV. The rematch was on HBO.

7y ago

man_down

Two things, These prices, drive away the common viewer not building the brand or "stars". Drove people to stream. Is the super bowl on PPV? NBA finals ect?

7y ago

MasterPlan

B-Hop vs Chad Dawson was a $55 PPV? I remember watching on HBO for some reason and B-Hop getting body slammed lol.

7y ago

MasterPlan

Holyfield vs Oquendo was a ppv...lol It was a Fox Sports PPV.

7y ago

Real_King_Kong

Holyfield vs Oquendo was a ppv...lol

7y ago

G_G_G

It's good. I hope $100 becomes the standard for PPV within the next 2 years. I would love it.

7y ago

rolshans

Lots of people making positive statements, that things should be as they are because that's how they've been.

7y ago

MasterPlan

Considering inflation, it's not as crazy as people make it out to be. The thing that impresses me is that PPVs used to vary in price a lot. Now, anything on PPV is top dollar. They're bleeding the loyal fans, rather than growing the industry, which is why I believe the promoters are the cancer of the sport. There were more PPVs back then. Sugar Ray and Tommy Hearns fought Tune-Ups on PPV in 1988 past their peak. Also, found out there were 6 PPVs in the span of 2 months in the summer of 2005.

7y ago

mathed

They'll charge $84.99 for the rematch and do less buys.

7y ago

Redd_Foxx

7y ago