Comments Thread For: De La Hoya on Tank-Garcia PPV Number: Give Fans What They Want To See - They Will Tune In!

[Roadblock]

If Spence and Crawford aren’t boxing each other, I refuse to purchase a Spence vs anyone else, or a Crawford vs anyone else PPV out of principle.

For me they are too quite, it's happening.

[Roadblock]

I paid, but honestly, the prices that they're at these days is nuts. The last rip off I was part of was Pac-Fraud. Granted each one has been split amongst the count that shows up, but still, paying 85 bucks for an unknown result feels like a gamble itself. If the undercard sucks and the main event fails to live up to the hype, it legit feels like someone just grabbed the money out of my wallet and ran.

I think this might be the last time I pay for a ppv. I mean, the next one would have to be massive. Honestly, if Crawford-Spence got made now, I wouldn't pay for it. I wanted to see that 4 years ago or so. It's long overdue now and I already would have excuses as to who ends up winning and why the other lost.

You pay for the potential of what the hype built a fight up to be, they sold a story and we buy or not, its like betting on a horse if it wins ( great battle) you walk away happy, if it loses ( boring fight) you lose, and here you are cursing taking the bet saying the race wasn't worth it, its ironic that most superfights don't deliver and that's because the hype built them up so high, most super fights are very technical high-level chess because its the best guys.

Sometimes I think fans can't see the line between a fight and boxing, personally, Id rather watch a top-level skill fight than a slugfest, I really enjoy boxing at its highest skill level the art within it, but I get what your saying about high prices need to deliver to justify the high price, Id like to see prices really cheap like $20 with the idea of attracting more eyes I think it would be a better approach than squeezing the ones that will actually buy, they need to hook the people that might buy.

[rmorris003]

Somebody gotta pay for us to watch it illegally but i did not watch this fight as I work weekends and knew tank was gonna win

[The Big Dunn]

If Spence and Crawford aren’t boxing each other, I refuse to purchase a Spence vs anyone else, or a Crawford vs anyone else PPV out of principle.

This is reasonable.

[The tucker]

I paid, but honestly, the prices that they're at these days is nuts. The last rip off I was part of was Pac-Fraud. Granted each one has been split amongst the count that shows up, but still, paying 85 bucks for an unknown result feels like a gamble itself. If the undercard sucks and the main event fails to live up to the hype, it legit feels like someone just grabbed the money out of my wallet and ran.

I think this might be the last time I pay for a ppv. I mean, the next one would have to be massive. Honestly, if Crawford-Spence got made now, I wouldn't pay for it. I wanted to see that 4 years ago or so. It's long overdue now and I already would have excuses as to who ends up winning and why the other lost.

So what Ppv would you pay for then?

[Oldskoolg]

I like this old business model of cross promotion. That's what made boxing so popular back in the 1980s and 1990s. It is also what helped drive up the pay per view buys and live gate ticket sales.

Hopefully Golden Boy and the PBC could do more future cards together in the future. They should try to revisit doing the Jermall Charlo vs Jaime Munguia fight. That fight would be huge also.

Neither of those names are as big with the casuals as last weekend’s fight but I agree in that they could build up to that fight

[daggum]

ryan garcia did great numbers. lets not pretend like those are tanks' numbers. tank did 200k with barrios and 250k with romero. cong**** ryan

[ELPacman]

You pay for the potential of what the hype built a fight up to be, they sold a story and we buy or not, its like betting on a horse if it wins ( great battle) you walk away happy, if it loses ( boring fight) you lose, and here you are cursing taking the bet saying the race wasn't worth it, its ironic that most superfights don't deliver and that's because the hype built them up so high, most super fights are very technical high-level chess because its the best guys.

Sometimes I think fans can't see the line between a fight and boxing, personally, Id rather watch a top-level skill fight than a slugfest, I really enjoy boxing at its highest skill level the art within it, but I get what your saying about high prices need to deliver to justify the high price, Id like to see prices really cheap like $20 with the idea of attracting more eyes I think it would be a better approach than squeezing the ones that will actually buy, they need to hook the people that might buy.

Depends on your definition of a top-level skill fight. For me, I'm not going to pay 85 bucks to see someone jab his way to a decision win with the occasional flurry and at the end of the night, it looks like neither guy had a fight. I'm not just a slugfest type of viewer because even those can get boring if neither guy has power. I enjoy more a power boxer. A dude whose not afraid to mix it up, but can resort back to movements if needed, to setup the opportunity to once against pounce. Something like a Marco Antonio Barrera. Of current times, I think Tank is that definition. Clearly by his KO ratio and he doesn't just rush in ******ly. Crawford as well, as much as he pisses me off for barely fighting a year.

[ELPacman]

So what Ppv would you pay for then?

Right now? Well of course... yeah, none. I'm investing into arm wrestling PPVs at the moment. Every month or two the top 3 guys of each division are constantly facing each other. They get mixed up in like a pot and everyone ends up facing each other. 10-15 bucks for the event, about 4 hours worth of content and if you understand the sport, it's impossible to feel cheated out. You literally get what you paid for.

That said, boxing is always my true heart and passion, but as it's been said a million times, it's a love hate type of relationship. Boxing loves to piss off the fans. Why show support then for ****** events that are overpriced constantly? If that isn't called vote with your wallet, I don't know what is. The more we pay for mismatched and fights that nobody wants to see, the more it'll happen. The politics in boxing are strong and the white collars run most of it.

[The tucker]

Right now? Well of course... yeah, none. I'm investing into arm wrestling PPVs at the moment. Every month or two the top 3 guys of each division are constantly facing each other. They get mixed up in like a pot and everyone ends up facing each other. 10-15 bucks for the event, about 4 hours worth of content and if you understand the sport, it's impossible to feel cheated out. You literally get what you paid for.

That said, boxing is always my true heart and passion, but as it's been said a million times, it's a love hate type of relationship. Boxing loves to piss off the fans. Why show support then for ****** events that are overpriced constantly? If that isn't called vote with your wallet, I don't know what is. The more we pay for mismatched and fights that nobody wants to see, the more it'll happen. The politics in boxing are strong and the white collars run most of it.

Arm wrestling…well to each it’s own but the reason why Davis vs garcia did so good was because it was a fight fans been wanting to see.