Comments Thread For: Keith Thurman-Mario Barrios Official For February 5 As FOX Pay-Per-View Headliner

[Nightfall]

Keep Thurman is a ho and clearly ducked the Lopez rematch, Terence Duckford, Boots Ennius and Vergil Ortiz jr. Barrios hasn't done nothing at 147. I Hope keep gets knocked out

Ho ass keef Injury time Thurman

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Was Leo stripped? Looks like it's not at stake.

[Rodtang]

Garbage fight, Garbage undercard. I mean I know Al Haymon owes Floyd Mayweather millions of dollars but why take it out from the fans with trash fights on ppv??

Because if your not willing to make real fights with the rest of the boxing world, then your limited to what you can offer. And if the fool's keep paying for it, they'll keep selling it.

[Rodtang]

what a strange stroke of "luck" if thats what you can call it for this guy. he gets battered around the ring by akhmedov and gets a gift decision which leads to a big ppv payday vs tank, and now another big ppv payday vs thurman. politics is everything. akhmedov even if he had won wouldnt have gotten any of these fights. it was almost preordained to happen for barrios. boxing definitely not a meritocracy

Barrios is the sacrificial can.

[Greenfield02]

Blame FOX Corp. they want more PPV because it is very Profitable FOR THEM!


Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/foxs-re...ve-11635970321

So yeah notice they already announced 2 PPV to start 2022 (Ortiz vs Martin and Thurman vs Barrios) and that does not include Spence vs Ugas in March so that makes 3 to start 2022 with more to come. I don't agree with it at all but you are at the mercy of these Networks a bit when you work with them and I think FOX Corp./FOX Sports have like 3-4 years of Options still with PBC so despite all the talk that PBC Deal is up in 2022 they will likely continue to show some boxing events and do some Boxing PPV Events still. We shall see how it plays out but what looks like a FLOP to us is not always a Flop to these Networks because it is the Traffic the want to their APP which gets them Ad Deals for Millions from Big Corporations

And everyone keeps claiming boxing is dying and UFC is taking over.... Well UFC just lost 13% of it's value, and boxing keeps doing what it has been doing for 120+ years. I'm still waiting for the UFC takeover everyone is been claiming was going to happen since the mid 2000s.... These PPVs while not dynamic, bring in money, and that's the bottom line.

[DFM]

How is this fight PPV? Typical PBC BS.

[TinAgeOfBoxing]

Who is ****** enough to pay for this?

Can we get one confirmed poster on here that would actually throw their money away to buy this?

Anyone?? Lol

Anonymous source says this fight sold 450k.

[rickJen]

Blame FOX Corp. they want more PPV because it is very Profitable FOR THEM!


Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/foxs-re...ve-11635970321

So yeah notice they already announced 2 PPV to start 2022 (Ortiz vs Martin and Thurman vs Barrios) and that does not include Spence vs Ugas in March so that makes 3 to start 2022 with more to come. I don't agree with it at all but you are at the mercy of these Networks a bit when you work with them and I think FOX Corp./FOX Sports have like 3-4 years of Options still with PBC so despite all the talk that PBC Deal is up in 2022 they will likely continue to show some boxing events and do some Boxing PPV Events still. We shall see how it plays out but what looks like a FLOP to us is not always a Flop to these Networks because it is the Traffic the want to their APP which gets them Ad Deals for Millions from Big Corporations

What do ads have anything to do with PPV being profitable?
Where does that say in your link?

Networks rarely make money off of PPVs in boxing.
Most of it goes to greedy fighters.

Like Showtime Espinoza said:

“The reality is that pay-per-view is a tool to help fights happen that wouldn’t otherwise happen..."

[jonnyc420]

PBC doesn't care about fans. They want money for garbage fights. Got a part timer vs a guy more concerned with his hair than winning a fight. Embarrassing.

[Hatesrats]

I'm intrigued by a Thurman comeback but come on... PPV. (Barrios?)

Running out of Mexicans over at the PBC.