Calzaghe-Jones does 225k buys or less

[Kris Silver]

Hopkins/Pavlik did under 200,000 as well. Neither were worthy of PPV imo anyways.

Boxing is really shooting itself in its foot by *****g up too many PPV's and too many non-worthy PPVs as well. Last year HBO had I believe 6 total PPVs. I think it's at or over 10 already for 2008. IMO there should be no more then 3-4 PPV fights a year!

A critical time is coming for American boxing since all of it's stars are old and near retirement. It would serve itself well in the long run to have LESS PPV's, or else it will only alienate fighters from the masses even further and there simply will no longer be any real american star fighters.

PPV debate was good a few months ago. I agree, more than a few a year has said a few a year tops awhile ago. But loads more are being put on in the hope it simply means more money. It usually doesn't, it means less trust in the system, and less money. All the various PPV's are shooting themselves in the foot, the more there are un planned later in the year, the worse it gets all round, especially in current times.

There's too much reliance on the PPV format as it is, in the UK, and usually I think in Europe, such prices so often are just not acceptable. The balance books need to be looked at because some promotional companies are raking it in ridiculously whilst others are being more conservative generally in the scene.

[ANDROID_DOES]

Hopkins/Pavlik did under 200,000 as well. Neither were worthy of PPV imo anyways.

Boxing is really shooting itself in its foot by *****g up too many PPV's and too many non-worthy PPVs as well. Last year HBO had I believe 6 total PPVs. I think it's at or over 10 already for 2008. IMO there should be no more then 3-4 PPV fights a year!

A critical time is coming for American boxing since all of it's stars are old and near retirement. It would serve itself well in the long run to have LESS PPV's, or else it will only alienate fighters from the masses even further and there simply will no longer be any real american star fighters.

I think last year HBO had 9 ppv's and they promised to cut that number this year which i think they did. But for anyone who doesn't think the economy is a factor is plain dumb. The economy has affected alot of things and the citizens of america is what's affected. Either way the card ******!

[ИATAS]

I think last year HBO had 9 ppv's and they promised to cut that number this year which i think they did. But for anyone who doesn't think the economy is a factor is plain dumb. The economy has affected alot of things and the citizens of america is what's affected. Either way the card ******!

HBO Boxing - 4,795,000 (total) among main events including:
Mayweather v. Hatton
Cotto v. Mosley
Pacquiao v. Barrera
Hopkins v. Wright
De La Hoya v. Mayweather
Cotto v. Judah

[The Hammer]

The main event was great, but the undercard stunk.

They should have had Judah vs. Salita instead of both fighting unknowns, and there should have been a title eliminator or fight between two up and coming LH contenders (like Tavoris Cloud and Chris Henry) on the undercard.

[Thread Stealer]

Jones only did HBO PPV for Ruiz, maybe the Tarver rematch (?), Trinidad and did indy PPVs for Hanshaw & Ajamu his entire career....

Toney, Griffin II, Gonzalez, and Harding were also PPVs. Of those, only the Toney fight did solid numbers. The Ruiz fight changed Roy's PPV numbers, because all 3 Tarver fights after that were PPV, and did solid numbers. The Trinidad fight did good #s as well.

[-Antonio-]

I'm not gonna lie, I thought with the 24/7 treatment and the name Roy Jones, it'd do a lot better. I was expecting 400 plus.

HBO probably lost **** loads of money on this. Those shows cost a fortune.

[-Boxzilla-]

i am not surprised, even with the 24/7 truth is the outcome was all but set before the fight and JC is not well known or liked in north america. i ended up watching the fight in a bar and no one even knew who JC was and where he was from. RJJ Trinidad did better because of all the PRs and because it was 2 well known well liked fighters in america.

trinidad had some amazing epic huge fights so it makes all the sense in the world for it doing better.

[Pullcounter]

Good to see. This fight imo should not have been on ppv and the undercard was one of the worst i have ever seen.

c'mon.... people knew that rjj was shot...

[Kris Silver]

i am not surprised, even with the 24/7 truth is the outcome was all but set before the fight and JC is not well known or liked in north america. i ended up watching the fight in a bar and no one even knew who JC was and where he was from. RJJ Trinidad did better because of all the PRs and because it was 2 well known well liked fighters in america.

trinidad had some amazing epic huge fights so it makes all the sense in the world for it doing better.

I understand what your saying, but this speaks numbers it really does. All that's said of RJJ versus Tito, is that RJJ is shot facing an old blown up Tito. All I'll say is that it was the opposite this side of the Atlantic. Thus it wasn't taken too much notice of here. The SMW and LHW #1 facing RJJ was rightfully taken more notice of.

[-Hyperion-]

i dont get where people think Roy is a huge draw............i mean im a huge fan of his but his PPV history is piss poor.......his only decent PPV #'s before 2003 was Toney wich did like 300k.......then he did like 650k vs Ruiz and around 350k for each Tarver fight.......Trinidad was the draw in their fight....and he did better numbers with Winky Wright.......