Question...if Calzaghe,Hatton are so good...

[squealpiggy]

Not one Hatton fight has been watched by as much as 200,000 people in Britain.

Do you have a source for this?

[EliteSoldier]

Calzaghe has been on PPV twice - against Eubank and Reid.

How come his big-super fight against Lacy wasn't on ppv over there? hahaha

[Brother Blues]

This has been a good learning session for me...

If you are a fight fan,its much better to be in England...cheaper anyway.

[Dimebar]

How come his big-super fight against Lacy wasn't on ppv over there? hahaha

Nobody would have bought it. It may have been a super-fight for you Americans, but it wasn't over here.

And, because Calzaghe's promoter was signed to a TV network that doesn't do PPV.

[Cletus Funk]

Not one Hatton fight has been watched by as much as 200,000 people in Britain.

You're so full of ****. The Tszyu fight did 200,000 PPV buys and that was hardly prime time viewing.

http://www.frankwarren.tv/drill/News/Articles/2006/03/07/calzgahe-lacy-draws-2m.html

The Magee fight had 350,000 viewers.

http://www.secondsout.com/uk/colevans.cfm?ccs=217&cs=12109

In 1 year alone Hatton was mainly responsible for cumulative viewing figures of 3mil on Sky TV.

Even the Maussa fight got 132,000 PPVs.

Google mother****er. Learn how to use it instead of just inventing ****, you freak.

[Peder]

PPV is a very very bad thing for the sport. So why on earth would someone use it as a barometer to rate fighters against? We should be applauding those fighting on channels which are free to watch.

I agree to that.
PPV sucks big-time. Not because of me having to pay money, but limiting the public access to the big fights, means possible new fans have to be lured in by crappy weekday cards and so on.. They are killing boxing, and I can only applaud the fighter/promoter/network for doing it differently.

[Dimebar]

You're so full of ****. The Tszyu fight did 200,000 PPV buys and that was hardly prime time viewing.

http://www.frankwarren.tv/drill/News...-draws-2m.html

It's false.

[Dimebar]

The Magee fight had 350,000 viewers.

Holyfield was fighting and the Lewis-Tyson build-up.

[Dimebar]

Even the Maussa fight got 132,000 PPVs

No it didn't.

[Cletus Funk]

It's false.

It was probably more than 200k given that Warren was trying to belittle him in that interview. Prove me wrong, dip****.

Holyfield was fighting and the Lewis-Tyson build-up.

Holyfield was fighting at prime UK viewing time, was he? Thought not. Sorry, but nobody stays in on a Saturday night to watch a 10 minute fight build up.

No it didn't.

Yes it did, found the link earlier. Prove me wrong.

The Urango fight had 1.5mil US viewers too.