Comments Thread For: Arum Feels Lowering PPV Price For Haney-Loma Will Result In Increased Interest, Buy Rate

[BritJimbo]

Lomachenko-Lopez wasn't a PPV fight but this is?

I encourage everyone to stream this. What a joke.

I look forward to smoking a fat one and watching this one for free on Sunday morning with my cat.

No, I don't feel bad at all about not paying.

[BritJimbo]

Most people think that Haney will hug himself to UD and neither is ppv star so good luck with this

It doesnt have the makings of a barnburner, skills aside.

[BritJimbo]

Price is definitely part of the issue.

For me, PPV works with a stacked, must-see undercard.

Only Don King and HBO pulled that off.

The price for this card is more than I spend on food for the week.

I remember the DK shows throughout the 90s and how stacked they were...Terry Norris, JCC sr, Fenech, Nelson, Ricardo Lopez on undercards...

For the price they charge us now, we should get to work the corners as well.

[STREET CLEANER]

The match up and popularity of the fighters is what makes the fight sale. Good matchup on paper but Haney is boring and neither is a superstar with a huge following.
Good fight but IMO is not ppv worthy.

[j0zef]

I buy most PPV fights every year, and have been for over a decade.

I don’f particularly like Benavidez or Plant, but I felt the fight was intriguing and will likely be exciting. I also wanted to see how quickly Benavidez could dispatch Plant. Surprisingly Plant survived the entire 12 rounds. It was a great, entertaining night. Plus I got to see Colbert get beat up and win anyway. Good undercard overall.

With that said I pay for PPV’s based on what I think the entertainment value will be like. Not really who I like or don’t like.

Haney just isn’t good entertainment value, unfortunately for Lomachenko, because he is. But Haney has the ability of single handily stinking up the joint with his holding and jabbing. The ref doesn’t address it, it happens for 12 rounds because Haney is an extremely light puncher, and with his opponent being held for 12 rounds there’s not much they can do.

If I don’t think a fight is worth the PPV price, I don’t stream it. Because my gripe isn’t it’s too expensive. It’s mostly just that the fight will probably lack any entertainment at all, and that’s why I watch boxing. Boring fighters like Haney defeat the purpose of watching boxing.

The guy isn’t just a light punching, serial clincher…he barely throws anything other than jabs. And he’s VERY good at that. It’s a great winning formula for him. And it’s a very boring sight.

Agree with this. I'll likely still watch the fight because it COULD turn into a great fight, but yeah, spot on.

[Smash]

i think loma will do better than most expect him to do, i hope he can make it a close exciting fight with a clash of styles but i wouldnt bet money on it but both loma and haney are more proven than cryin ryan by a long way & tank just has a different way of doing things & his fans think he just beats everyone anyway

[jockpunk]

The undercard is such dog ****. Do mexicans really like oscar valdez that much that they will buy this?

[_original_]

60 bucks for what’s guaranteed to be a technical fight (not complaining about that) between two guys with zero personality? This is gonna bomb hilariously.

[CharlieStewart]

Arum is deluding himself. Loma
vs haney isn’t a PPV worthy fight. It’s gonna bomb badly no matter what they price it at.

correct, however it says a lot about boxing and boxing fans that tank vs garcia is the ppv fight and this isn't.

[hitmanjosh]

Arum is very smart and understand that it’s too much, however $60 is too much as well, I’ll wait a week or couple days afterwards to see these too Pity Pat one another.