Not many people are gonna watch Mayweather/DLH

[The Wire]

2 million PPV buys aint a bad look for boxing. You have to take into account all the people that are going to have friends and family over for the fight. Mutha phuckers on here will hate just to hate. I don't give a damn if some Euro or Canucker has some small **** syndrome over this. Guess what, WE DON"T CARE... So if the shoe fits, wear it. And this has nothing to with race, origin of country or whatever. PBF vs DLH is great for boxing. It will get some youngins to get back into the sport. It will get people that have swayed intrests from boxing BACK to watching the sweetest science. So hate all you want. I'll be sitting with my nephew on May 5th, and that is a good thing.

What the **** are you on about, hating? My whole point was that this was a fantastic fight and that it's a shame more people won't be watching. How is that hating?

You're one ****** mother****er, hombre.

OK. Almost everyone's missed my actual point which is this. 2 million ppv buys does equal a lot more people actually watching it BUT STILL NOT AS MANY AS SHOULD BE WATCHING IT FOR AN EVENT OF THIS MAGNITUDE. John H Stracey vs Jose Napoles drew hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide because it was free.

My point is that boxing is becoming more and more a marginalised sport and some of that blame has to fall on the shoulders of ppv's. Fifty five bucks is a lot of money to be paying for one night when you're not even going to the ****ing event, so a lot of people that might watch what will hopefully be a good advert for the sweet science will not watch it because of cost. And slowly but surely boxing's fan base dwindles.

To the guy that said I know nothing about the market - you have totally missed my point. By a mile. If this were free advertising revenue would surely go through the roof because of the amount of people watching it, so would the promoters actually make less money?

To the guy that said that if Eastenders were a ppv it would generate two hundred buys - you're absolutely ****ing right. I don't watch that **** - my point was that something as bad as Eastenders gets more viewers than one of the most exciting fights of the last twenty years!

This shouldnt be. This Saturday should be as big as the superbowl but it's not. And why? Because every ****ing boxing match is on ppv. And that is bad for boxing and will ultimately lead to the demise of this great sport as less and less peole want to fork out for it. (I've repeated this in case it got lost as it was at the end of the last page)

[Sweet Pea 50]

Holy ****, are you mad are what? All I was trying to say in my post was this is GREAT for boxing. Let's see, 2 million PPV, average 10 people per house hold, you got whole bunch of people watching boxing. Sure it's not going to hold up to the magnutide of a Super Bowl. In the closed circuit, Ali days, boxing was KING. But that's not going to ever happen again. And thats a shame. I might be ****** HOMBRE, but it is what is...

[The Wire]

Mutha phuckers on here will hate just to hate. I don't give a damn if some Euro or Canucker has some small **** syndrome over this. Guess what, WE DON"T CARE... So if the shoe fits, wear it.:

This is what you said. That's why I got angry.

You totally missed my point. Yes, this fight is good for boxing. But it should be better than it is, about a hundred times better.

I bet that there's not as many viewers for this fight in the states as there would be for an FA cup final over here, and there's a lot less people in this country. It shouldnt be that way. This fight should be a mega event that everyone's talking about, but it's not

[Sweet Pea 50]

Hey man I agree with you for the most part. All I was saying was this fight is a sucess in terms of the money. Both parties involved are going to make a whole lot of bread. The fight itself, well, I got Mayweather TKO by the 10th. But thats just my dumbass prediction. Wire, have a good one watching the fight.

[Kball15]

when they say 6 MILLION PEOPLE watched the contender, they are multiplying the number of actual TV sets with the channel on, by the average number of people per household.

Also count the fact that people flip throught channels and stuff.

2 million times about 6, is like 12 million. Thats like an NFL playoff game AND you have to pay for it. Thats big stuff

[The Wire]

Hey man I agree with you for the most part. All I was saying was this fight is a sucess in terms of the money. Both parties involved are going to make a whole lot of bread. The fight itself, well, I got Mayweather TKO by the 10th. But thats just my dumbass prediction. Wire, have a good one watching the fight.

You too, mate

[CottoOverrated1]

OK, congratulations on completely missing my point there.

What I'm saying is that whilst ppv records stand at 2 million people - 2 MILLION PEOPLE IS NOT A LOT

Eastenders (a British soap opera on four times a week) gets 8 million viewer EVERY TIME IT'S ON.

If ppv's were cheaper perhaps more people would buy them and the promoters would actually make more money. In a country as big as America a fight as big as this should be hitting 20, 30 even 50 million buys. Not 2.

do you have to pay 50 plus bucks to watch the easterners?

[Verstyle]

OK, congratulations on completely missing my point there.

What I'm saying is that whilst ppv records stand at 2 million people - 2 MILLION PEOPLE IS NOT A LOT

Eastenders (a British soap opera on four times a week) gets 8 million viewer EVERY TIME IT'S ON.
If ppv's were cheaper perhaps more people would buy them and the promoters would actually make more money. In a country as big as America a fight as big as this should be hitting 20, 30 even 50 million buys. Not 2.

I bet its free also.neeeeeeeeeeeeeeext. more ppl tend to watch **** more when its free. This is nothing new.

[Verstyle]

do you have to pay 50 plus bucks to watch the easterners?

EEEEEEEEEEEXACTLY.

[The Wire]

EEEEEEEEEEEXACTLY.

OK, can people read what I've actually written before writing bull**** about how you don't have to pay for eastenders. My point is basically that ppv's are bad for the sport as a whole, and that this is (being the biggest boxing event for maybe 15 years) should be attracting audiences in the hundreds of millions. But all I've got is loads of people saying that Eastenders is free. It certainly is.

Amir Khan fought Mario Kindelan in an amateur fight over here and he drew 8 million viewers. Boxing can be one of the biggest sports on the planet but it's not and that is down to ppv's. They could still make mad money if it was free and they sold advertising.

2 million ppv buys = about 12 million people watching. My point is it should be a lot, lot more than that for what is one of the most exciting fights for many years.