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I mean seriously. No disrepect to these fighters but PPV use to be something reserved for big time events etc. Now fights like Lacy vs Jones, Pinoy Power and Calderon vs Mayol are being put on PPV.
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Most of the time these cards are on small time PPV events because no major network was willing to pick them up (meaning HBO and Showtime didn't want to waste their time & money on it). -
its a simple math
if you have a big enough name fighter where you have to pay him his set minimum, yet a network won't take that fight thus the promoter not getting the money networks would pay for it, you put them on PPV.
Top Rank has a pretty good formula in that a lot of their PPVs are low in cost as they share the TV production costs with another channel (say TV Azteca-Mexico). This keeps their overhead low (basically fighter purses) so the numbers for these small PPVs to turn a profit can be low
they said for the Chavez Latin Fury PPVs all they have to get is 10k buys for it to break even and he averages about 50k so you can see why Bob has him and his other Latin and Filipino stars on PPV rather than being stuck fighting on ESPN or Telemundo for peanutsComment
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