Lance Pugmire: Industry Source Tells Him Crawford/Khan did 150k Buys

Is this the same guy that quote 275K for Wilder/Fury?

OK so it Flopped...whats next? :dunno: Just being on ESPN is not enough

It flopped. No surprise cuz we all knew it would

Gotta say, it's absolutely hilarious reading these comments. All of the sudden everyone is a ppv expert and can do basic math for purse splits. Here we have a fight that does 150k buys with 2 guys who speak perfect English and have previously headlined their own ppvs, with 10m+ in purses. This fight "didn't do well" and Glaser is now a troll not to be believed. Yet rewind back to Golovkin-Lemieux, a fight between 2 fighters who speak poor English, never been on PPV and the total purses were $4m... And that event was a "huge flop", Mr 97k, Rick Glaser is the truth, nobody knows how to do basic math because "I dun kerr wut u say event flop lolololol oh damn I'm late to my Wendy's shift". Yeah, this is a total shtpost, but don't you trolls ever pretend to be anything more than biased fanboys.

I remember Loeffler saying MSG is expensive to rent and they don't pay site fees. I read that MSG charges 500k.

Lmao. Cable and Satellite do not get 50%. Omg who the hell told you that. My best friend is Head of Accounting for a major cable company. They all make a flat $5 per buy. 50% lmao. God you guys just make up crap. The network ESPN takes 50%. Top Rank gets other 50%. ESPN pays for filing and distribution. Top rank pays fighters, fees and venue. Good lord you guys don’t know business at all. Fan of Reason is a total troll and everything he says is wrong.

Here is an article by Charles Jay who has worked in the PPV industry. What are your credentials? If they don't match his then you might as well put me on ignore because you're going on my ignore list if you've never worked in the PPV industry Same thing I said $5 - $49.99 ppv then tv and promoter split 50-50

Lol at the so explosive comment... yeah sure Bobby, we believe you.

$10.5 million guaranteed in main event purses. Only $12 million in total PPV revenue before everyone takes their cut. Cable/Satellite providers getting their 50% off top so you're already down to $6 mil before it's broken up again. I told ya'll that's why Bob was yelling Haymon's name after the fight. The numbers that night were not tracking well and Bob knew he'd gotten washed on this fight. Lmao. Cable and Satellite do not get 50%. Omg who the hell told you that. My best friend is Head of Accounting for a major cable company. They all make a flat $5 per buy. 50% lmao. God you guys just make up crap. The network ESPN takes 50%. Top Rank gets other 50%. ESPN pays for filing and distribution. Top rank pays fighters, fees and venue. Good lord you guys don’t know business at all.

At least he's got the Jeff Horn rematch in his back pocket. :lol1: Seriously though no wonder Arum has been race baiting and acting so pathetic lately. He's ****ing desperate

Gate was probably close to the 2M range and may have gotten decent money from international revenue. Of course they likely lost money but not a HUGE loss, unless the UC fighters were getting big money. Who knows what the real guarantees were though. I wonder how much Shakur and Teofimo got.

$10.5 million guaranteed in main event purses. Only $12 million in total PPV revenue before everyone takes their cut. Cable/Satellite providers getting their 50% off top so you're already down to $6 mil before it's broken up again. I told ya'll that's why Bob was yelling Haymon's name after the fight. The numbers that night were not tracking well and Bob knew he'd gotten washed on this fight. Gate was probably close to the 2M range and may have gotten decent money from international revenue. Of course they likely lost money but not a HUGE loss, unless the UC fighters were getting big money. Who knows what the real guarantees were though.

150k is more than I thought it would do tbh. ESPN, Bob and Crawford himself did nothing to promote it. ESPN talks about it for all of 1 week, Bob opens his mouth saying outrageous thing about a mismatch, Crawford doesn’t say or do enough to promote buys of his fights.

Lol digital buys like never before. Trust me. Arum sounding more like trump LOL, he actually does sound like Trump here. And you can just imagine Trump in his voice saying this. The buy rate sucked, but at least the arena was full and had great energy just from watching it on TV.

Lol digital buys like never before. Trust me. Arum sounding more like trump

And the digital buys line is BS. I'd believe it if the fight did 300k and up. But traditional buys only being 150k shows hardcore boxing fans bought this fight. And hardcore boxing fans skew older therefore more traditional ways of buying the fight will be used. For sure, but they definitely want to transition more in digital buys. I mean I got lied to and was forced to purchase Spence/Garcia on the Fox Sports app lol. But hey, I didn't see no one bringing up digital buys for the Spence/Garcia PPV.

Pugmier is a real boxing journalist so I would believe his numbers over Rick Glaser's any day. Sounds like a bad flop of a PPV. Unless Arum is telling the truth about digital buys being "explosive." But yesterday he was lying so today is he telling the truth? :thinking:

The fight was overpriced and a lot of fans had the gut feeling Khan was going to get mauled. It wasn't a bad card but the main event was trash.

How the other thread with the fake Glaser numbers got more comments than this one? Because you just posted this one

That is horrible. That fight should have done more than that it wasn’t promoted well