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fine for a thursday. What are you expecting on these PPV undercards? Look what we got for Spence/Garica. This is fine, you get some big up and coming names fighting on the UC in what should be solid statements by them. Verdejo fight has the potential to be really solid and Diaz may test Stevenson. Then always good to see Lopez. You're not going to be getting many Garcia vs Matthysse UC type of fights anymore of Gonzalez vs SSR.

Undercard is fine. Don't mind it one bit. fine for a thursday.

They should show a commercial for the fight during Highly Questionable. I'm pretty sure that's the only thing on ESPN that people watch. First take with stephen a and max kellermam is popular

They should show a commercial for the fight during Highly Questionable. I'm pretty sure that's the only thing on ESPN that people watch.

F, I havent seen anything. with that said I seen lomachenko crolla ad today on my roku. They still have roku? I thought that **** went under

No way crawford khan ppv does well enough to pay each guy that much, espn hasnt even started promoting it and crawford is no household name. In order to build interest you have to saturate the fighters daily on tv so fans gain interest and curiosity What i suspect is top rank will just take money from other shows cutting the pay of lower level prospects to pay off khan and crawford. If this ppv does 300k buys it will be a success. Crawfords ppv history was a 35 thousand buys ppv right? All i know is it was so low nobody bought it other than people in Nebraska Espn markets UFC more than top rank boxing. I think 300k is unrealistic. Now, I didn't think Spence/Garcia would approach the 400k mark either, but clearly that promotion caught fire and FOX had a bunch of shoulder programming leading up to the fight. ESPN has done ZERO shoulder programming of note as of now. If it does close to 200k I think that will be a success. You may be able to come close to covering the purses of the main event fighters with 200k. 200,000 * 70 = 14,000,000/2 = 7,000,000 *.9 = 6,300,000 Live gate = ~1,500,000 UK buys 30,000 * 26 = 780,000/2 = 390,000 Sponsorship/International revenue ~2 million That is the path way to at least get close to covering those two purses. I don't know how exactly UK PPVs work so I didn't even deduct the 10% of revenue that in the US that networks like SHO/HBO get. Of course you are still going to lose money on the event, but should both guys be getting around 6 million for this fight anyways? That's the risk you took putting this fight on PPV. The A-side UC fighters are all at least young so none of them will be commanding a million or even a 500,000 payday.

How could we know the answer to this before the PPV numbers come in? Lol boxing fans man.

ufc is beating boxing. ESPN should just go all out with ufc. they won't because they have to prove they are the world wide leader in sports. Ufc is beating boxing but they cant nix boxing because they signed a long term deal with Top Rank long nefore they bought the rights to Ufc broadcasts. So they are stuck with boxing, this is why they dont waste money on promotin boxing maybe they are hoping top rank isnt satisfied and they let top rank buy oit their contract for cheap or the amicably cut ties.

More likely that Khan asked for too much to put it on regular ESPN or even ESPN+. Word is Khan is receiving anywhere from 5-6M, likely closer to the latter, so you know Crawford will get getting around the same. Now, they were supposedly willing to put Wilder on ESPN+ against Breazeale, and he was set to make 12.5M. So if that is the case, technically they could have put Crawford/Khan on ESPN+ as well, no? No way crawford khan ppv does well enough to pay each guy that much, espn hasnt even started promoting it and crawford is no household name. In order to build interest you have to saturate the fighters daily on tv so fans gain interest and curiosity What i suspect is top rank will just take money from other shows cutting the pay of lower level prospects to pay off khan and crawford. If this ppv does 300k buys it will be a success. Crawfords ppv history was a 35 thousand buys ppv right? All i know is it was so low nobody bought it other than people in Nebraska Espn markets UFC more than top rank boxing.

Or that they simply can't with having the UFC PPV a week prior? I mean what are they going to do, spend weeks promoting this fight and not the other UFC PPV? Only so much time and effort you can allocate towards combat sports, and it is clear that the UFC is priority number one for ESPN. I'm really interested in seeing the PPV buys for this fight though. I want to see if ESPN truly does help increase the number of buys or if that is just a myth? I've yet to see any data backing that up for the UFC PPVs, but maybe ESPN helps this PPV out greatly. ufc is beating boxing. ESPN should just go all out with ufc. they won't because they have to prove they are the world wide leader in sports.

Cause they can't afford to pay purses for Crawford and Khan without a PPV revenue stream. I think that if ESPN thought that spending a bunch of money on promotion would significantly improve PPV buys they would be doing it. They are doing the smart thing by keeping promotional spending to a minimum. Or that they simply can't with having the UFC PPV a week prior? I mean what are they going to do, spend weeks promoting this fight and not the other UFC PPV? Only so much time and effort you can allocate towards combat sports, and it is clear that the UFC is priority number one for ESPN. I'm really interested in seeing the PPV buys for this fight though. I want to see if ESPN truly does help increase the number of buys or if that is just a myth? I've yet to see any data backing that up for the UFC PPVs, but maybe ESPN helps this PPV out greatly.

Then why put it on ppv? Cause they can't afford to pay purses for Crawford and Khan without a PPV revenue stream. I think that if ESPN thought that spending a bunch of money on promotion would significantly improve PPV buys they would be doing it. They are doing the smart thing by keeping promotional spending to a minimum.

Because ESPN gave Top Rank a certain amount of ppv slots and arum felt this would be worthy is my guess More likely that Khan asked for too much to put it on regular ESPN or even ESPN+. Word is Khan is receiving anywhere from 5-6M, likely closer to the latter, so you know Crawford will get getting around the same. Now, they were supposedly willing to put Wilder on ESPN+ against Breazeale, and he was set to make 12.5M. So if that is the case, technically they could have put Crawford/Khan on ESPN+ as well, no?

Then why put it on ppv? Because ESPN gave Top Rank a certain amount of ppv slots and arum felt this would be worthy is my guess

I would rate it A+. There is no point in spending a lot of money on promotion for a fight that isn't going to sell well. ESPN are doing the right thing here. Crawford is one of the two biggest stars of TR. I don't get this thinking one bit. They obviously would want the PPV to do as well as it could. And this PPV has some big implications on where the Spence fight will take place at and who the A-side will be. I don't think this is it. I listen to Evan Rutkowski's podcast and he is a consultant for this PPV and said they did some nice hit features for the fight that will be released the week of the fight. Since most PPVs are bought a day before the fight or the day of the fight, they want to push it hard in the final few days. And LIS, ESPN has UFC PPVs to worry about as well. They can't push the Crawford/Khan PPV more than the UFC PPV that takes place a week earlier. So right now the UFC PPV has the attention in terms of combat sports for this week and then starting Sunday or Monday it will be go time for Crawford/Khan promotion.

I would rate it A+. There is no point in spending a lot of money on promotion for a fight that isn't going to sell well. ESPN are doing the right thing here. Then why put it on ppv?

I would rate it A+. There is no point in spending a lot of money on promotion for a fight that isn't going to sell well. ESPN are doing the right thing here. :lol1: funny stuff but true.

F I haven't seen any promotion from ESPN. BTsport has done way more promotion for this fight Exactly the only stuff ive seen is from BT sport on youtube, espn hasnt promoted this fight at all, they invest more into ufc promotion

What Promotion? http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/wtthll.gif I guess you have to watch ESPN all day to catch the Promos :dunno:

I would rate it A+. There is no point in spending a lot of money on promotion for a fight that isn't going to sell well. ESPN are doing the right thing here.