Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis vs. Mario Barrios - PPV Card Officially Announced

[daggum]

the guy who beat barrios is fighting on his undercard lol boxing

[Bronx2245]

No way not for a PPV

I'm good with it! I think Tank vs. Barrios is very interesting because the size difference, Lubin vs. Rosario is a do or die situation for both, and i think Akhmedov is good, deserved a rematch with Barrios!

[jojo003]

Young Davis is attempting to do a Hank Armstrong.....I will be watching

not even close

armstrong held LINEAL TITLES in 3 different weight classes at the same time

gervonta hasnt even won 1

and same thing for canelo except when he did it he atleast had the lineal middleweight title


the only one who cam close to armstrong was floyd

[Hatesrats]

This is PPV... lol
(Hard Pass)

Will watch somehow.

[Michael1437]

Only because it’s Tank and he did well the last time out. This should be a SHO championship boxing card.

Completely agree, I enjoy watching Tank, but I am not sure if I can pull the trigger to pay for this fight.

[Michael1437]

Any fight that will make more money via PPV over the go to platform option = PPV worthy to the folks with skin in the game more often then not.

People are assuming a PPV means something special. It doesn't. Plenty of fights waaaaay less "PPV worthy" than this fight have been PPV fights.

I don't know, if I am "paying" for something, it better be worth it, I understand the more money aspect, but this feels like paying full price for a beat up not running 1993 honda civic

[GhostofDempsey]

I don't have a problem with the fight itself, but I don't think this is PPV worthy. At least not for my money.

[Eff Pandas]

I don't know, if I am "paying" for something, it better be worth it, I understand the more money aspect, but this feels like paying full price for a beat up not running 1993 honda civic

Sure, but there are those that see a PPV as a whatever cost & just a lil fun Saturday night expense also. And there are enough of those people that it makes more money for everyone involved to do it as a PPV over letting Showtime or Fox or whoever handle the money.

For the most part PPV's aren't for hardcore fans is the thing I think most hardcore fans fail to understand as well. If someone is big enough to do a $50-$100 PPV event they got enough of a casual audience that the fight is trying to appeal to those types more than the average NSBer & our high level needs for what a PPV is or isn't in our minds much more often than not.

[Michael1437]

Sure, but there are those that see a PPV as a whatever cost & just a lil fun Saturday night expense also. And there are enough of those people that it makes more money for everyone involved to do it as a PPV over letting Showtime or Fox or whoever handle the money.

For the most part PPV's aren't for hardcore fans is the thing I think most hardcore fans fail to understand as well. If someone is big enough to do a $50-$100 PPV event they got enough of a casual audience that the fight is trying to appeal to those types more than the average NSBer & our high level needs for what a PPV is or isn't in our minds much more often than not.

Doesn't that mess up boxing for the rest of us? I mean honestly, the reason why PPV's like this happen is because of casual fans purchasing anything on PPV, this gives the power to boxers to put everything on PPV, just wish that boxers would rather fight for the fans rather than who brings in the most money.

[Eff Pandas]

Doesn't that mess up boxing for the rest of us? I mean honestly, the reason why PPV's like this happen is because of casual fans purchasing anything on PPV, this gives the power to boxers to put everything on PPV, just wish that boxers would rather fight for the fans rather than who brings in the most money.

Idk that boxing gives a fook about that. I mean its not like boxing is a monolith to begin with for there to be a "boxing". Its a bunch of individuals who are involved in boxing. Its a making money, asses in seats business. If a fight can generate $8M on a non-PPV platform & it can generate $9M+ on PPV its better for the folks with skin in the game to have it on PPV.

You can argue that putting a paywall between fans & certain fights, usually bigger fights, is problematic for the sport long term & I'd agree with that. I think the sport has gotten smaller over the last few decades &/or not grown as much as it could've cuz of these paywalls between fighters & fights people wanna see. Thing is idk how you make it worthwhile for all these promoters, fighters, networks, managers to work together towards the greater good of boxing when the best move for them personally is whatever makes them the most money now. Which is sometimes PPV.