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

[Dimebar]

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

It was a promotion of Warren's.

Prove you wrong? Frank Warren's News of the World column every single week for the last two years. There's false info in every article, every last one!

[Cletus Funk]

No it didn't.

**** off

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/s/204/204308_boxing_hatton_camp_in_bbc_talks.html

[Cletus Funk]

It was a promotion of Warren's.

Prove you wrong? Frank Warren's News of the World column every single week for the last two years. There's false info in every article, every last one!

Yes, prove me wrong. Let's see the links to these "4 figure viewing figures" of your's.

[Tony628]

**** off

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....bbc_talks.html

thats because no-one likes to pay for PPV's over here

[squealpiggy]

If you extrapolate the 132,000 buys for the Maussa fight by 5 to account for population difference that's like a half a million buys in the US.

[Cletus Funk]

If you extrapolate the 132,000 buys for the Maussa fight by 5 to account for population difference that's like a half a million buys in the US.

Indeed. Naz used to get 3-400k and that's DLH country per capita.

[squealpiggy]

So the Tszyu fight is close to or exceeding a million buys, when accounting for population, and it was on at half past ****** in the morning in England. I watched it here in Canada.

[Cletus Funk]

So the Tszyu fight is close to or exceeding a million buys, when accounting for population, and it was on at half past ****** in the morning in England. I watched it here in Canada.

Yeah, that crossed my mind earlier. Tszyu wasn't a name fighter over here either.

Got to say I'm pretty amazed at the Joe C v Lacy figures. It was on a free channel but still impressive given the time of the fight.

[MickyHatton]

I'm not sure what the point of this thread is?

I mean its not as if PPV is doing the sport any good so who cares who is on it (which is dictated by the networks anyway).

Boxing as a sport has declined in popularity over the last 30 years, this has been intensified by PPV.

I was not shocked by the amount of people certainly here in the UK who had never heard of Floyd Mayweather or DLH, in the eighties when Hagler fought Leonard it was a spectacle, everyone spoke about it and both fighters were household names.
Sadly this is no longer the case and PPV has had a big part to play in that!