Comments Thread For: Hearn: Fury-Wilder Sold No Tickets, It Would Have Did Very Poorly on PPV

[springfiels]

Isn’t he promoted by Warren in the U.K.?

That adds another layer of weirdness, Warren seems to be like a UK consultant for them... He clearly doesn't have any say in actual decision making or the high level discussions.

It was embarrassing during all those Fury-Joshua negotiations - he sounded like us on here making comments in the media not knowing what's happening lol

[Bronx2245]

After how Arum treated Hearn, you know Eddie is loving this! Men lie, Women lie, Numbers never lie!

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After how Arum treated Hearn, you know Eddie is loving this! Men lie, Women lie, Numbers never lie!

Was there even any promotion for this fight over here ? I don’t know I cut my cable off regular television and got back about a week or so ago from vacation so I don’t even know , I know I haven’t seen anything or heard much about the fight and caught the you tube press conference which was terrible.

[Oldskoolg]

When Tyson recovers from covid as many tens of millions around the world have he will be in the fight of his life with a hurt and wounded supersonic hitter that Wilder is . Hearn is just a very good spin doctor and has and is doing his best for his brittle chinned fighter to stay out of the way of Wilder who would absolutely destroy him.

Too right mate. Just more of the same
from the Brentwood reject. Young Edward did the same sort of talk prior to the first two fights in the trilogy until after the second where somehow he feels he was vindicated for his bitterness regarding wilder and Deontay not letting Hearn dictate his career to him to sell dayzin subscriptions in the USA. Young Edward is still quite cross over looking like a muppet over the “it’s signed” Saudi fight and not having any big fights on the horizon. He’s the one promoter that seems to obsess with what Top Rank and PBC are up to…which of course is to divert attention away from the Barnsley/Stoke-on-Trent level fights he’s offering…

[Bronx2245]

Was there even any promotion for this fight over here ? I don’t know I cut my cable off regular television and got back about a week or so ago from vacation so I don’t even know , I know I haven’t seen anything or heard much about the fight and caught the you tube press conference which was terrible.

Other than Fury attending fights, and clowning on ESPN, I haven't seen much hype! Same can be said for Spence vs. Pacquiao too!

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Other than Fury attending fights, and clowning on ESPN, I haven't seen much hype! Same can be said for Spence vs. Pacquiao too!

Ive seen posts on here showing that even the U.K wasn’t promoting it where Fury should get a good number of ppvs . It’s almost like team Fury had no intention of a July fight at all .


Hopefully on July 28th Hearn can get the Usyk fight announced and the Wembley venue officially announced. Get that out of the way in a decent fight at least A.J keeps up fighting top guys consistently.

[KingGilgamesh]

Meh, I don't know.

I'm not sure it would have done poor numbers, but then I'm actually questioning whether it would have been a rousing success either.

I initially thought people would have been excited to see what has become a genuine grudge rivalry, but then I think the recency of Covid would have made it hard to assume it would have generated significant buzz to sell out a stadium. I also think Fury's recent pull out will only further dent the fights marketability.

In truth though, its not like Hearn is really in a particularly strong position either. Check out the numbers below, and that was the first Povetkin Whyte fight...

https://www.***************.net/2020...n-ppv-numbers/

That was his fourth consecutive poor sales in five PPVs. In truth, I am starting to get the impression he likely wasn't massively keen on leaving Sky, but they weren't willing to offer anything better. Sky has seen increasing competition. But in terms of some of the UK bigger sports, football, cricket, F1 etc. it actually seems to have increased its foothold. Whilst competitors like BT Sports and Amazon have chipped away, the sports broadcasting landscape has become so fractured that its not like any one entity can hold anything resembling a monopoly anymore. I actually think Hearn has become increasingly irrelevant in the domestic UK boxing scene, I also think buzz for his biggest heavyweights, Whyte and Joshua has died. I hardly see anyone talking about them with any excitement. Fury and Wilder seem to have completely taken over the public psyche when it comes to heavyweights. There are just too few competitive heavyweights fighting each other. The last good bout seen in the UK among some real contenders was almost a year ago between Joyce and Dubois.

Hearn strikes me as the type who, when bloviating, is doing so to mask his own vulnerability. His most watched interviews are all about the drama between Wilder and Fury...I have barely seen anyone even talk about Joshua and Usyk. Despite it being Joshua best matchup in 4+ years.

[KingGilgamesh]

Other than Fury attending fights, and clowning on ESPN, I haven't seen much hype! Same can be said for Spence vs. Pacquiao too!

And here is where I actually wonder whether Fury/Wilder 3 may actually turn out to be bigger than I expected. I don't know, I live in the UK but in America it seems different. Its like big fights there don't have a big build up but then they suddenly end up being massive. I don't remember there being a ton of buzz before the Canelo/BJS fight but then it ends up packing out the cowboys stadium.

[BoloShot]

Typical Hearn, ****ting on the good fights outside of his promotion, wouldn't say a lick of that if he were in charge though.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

The oracle of PPV has spoken everybody!!! The PPV visionary who gave us PPV mega fights like Parker-Chisora, Whyte-Rivas, Bellew-Cleverly, Brook-Gavin and many more has spoken!

Eddie is clearly an expert on the US PPV market, he’s already sold a whopping 0 US PPV’s in his stellar career. His opinion is unquestionably valid.