Comments Thread For: Hearn: Pay-Per-View Market Is Dwindling; Fighters Should Take The Guarantee Instead

[MC Hammer]

He'd advise guys to be employees rather than owners. Dazn is dwindling here not ppv.

[MC Hammer]

Possibly the dumbest comment ever. Do you really think more people would pay to watch Gervonta Davis at $75 on Fox PPV than on DAZN for a $20 one month subscription?

They literally just did. Canelo hasn't been getting 200k+ views on dazn. Neither has Garcia. Television is a larger audience

[bballchump11]

Why would I care about a promoter's opinion who's never done an American ppv about the viability of ppvs?

[champion4ever]

Oh no, not that! Al should sell Canelo on the chance to sell many, many PPVs! He should tell him that FOX is all in, and he should treat this fight like an audition! Haymon has 3 fighters for Canelo (Plant, Charlo, and Benavidez)! FOX would love to have Canelo fight all 3, but at least 2 on their platform! Can't piss off Canelo at this point! Too much at stake!

You are right! I one hundred percent agree with you. I was only saying that about Canelo Alvarez in part jest

[Fighter78]

I think Canelo should sign with the PBC. If anybody can get a million buys out of Canelo its the PBC's marketing machine.

[greeneye99]

Exactly! You are absolutely correct! It's not going to happen. Al would be a damn fool to allow one of his fighters to leave his platform to fight on a rival platform with one of his title belts still intact.

What good would Caleb Plant be to Al Haymon coming back to the PBC titleless? He would be no good for him at all.

Chances are Al will release Plant from his roster if he signs a deal with Matchroom and Eddie Hearn and take his IBF Super middleweight title belt over to DAZN and lose to Canelo Alvarez.

Al should tell Canelo "Get the fuck outta here man"!

Why shouldn't Al Haymon make sure Caleb Plant gets this Big fight opportunity regardless of the platforms
Geez...
Ya'll Fans keep acting like Boxing promoters instead of actually Boxing Fans?
I just wanna see Canelo vs Plant
Best fighting the Best!

[Fighter78]

They literally just did. Canelo hasn't been getting 200k+ views on dazn. Neither has Garcia. Television is a larger audience

I agree.....you may get upfront money on DAZN but there will be FAR LESS eyes on you and that's just a fact.

[Bronx23]

We’re now in the age where 200k PPV buys is now being considered good numbers when just only 3-4 years ago those where considered terrible numbers lol. PPV just seems so outdated to me. There used to be a time when PPVs were exclusive to the biggest stars/fights, now we got Andy Ruiz headling PPVs ffs lmao.

This doesn’t matter to me though I stream all the PPVs as well as the fights on DAZN & ESPN+ all for free. It’s 2021. Everything is online & it’s not hard to find. What people spend their money on is their business so if people are willing to fork over their money for a PPV I say keep making fights on PPV

[Bronx23]

I agree.....you may get upfront money on DAZN but there will be FAR LESS eyes on you and that's just a fact.

What matters more? The eyes or the money? No one on PBC/PPV is making more money than Canelo

[Fighter78]

Dazn paid Canelo $35 million fixed amount. I wonder what his numbers would
look like on ppv? I have no clue what dollar amount or percentage fighters get
for every ppv sold! What would be reasonable number of legal ppv purchases?

I would appreciate some input.

DAZN doesn't pay Canelo 35 million for each fight....they paid him close to 35 million for the Callum Smith affair....he didn't get as much for BJS I believe.