Comments Thread For: Showtime's Espinoza Says Piracy Is Depressing PPV Buys By At Least 30-40%

[rudy]

IPTV is the best thing in Boxing

[letsgochump]

The problem is selling a garbage product for a high price. A fight night like Wilder vs Helenius with trash undercard and short main event isn't worth 30$ and yet they can charge 90 for such trash.

Fights are often interesting but not worth the price tag. And no, ain't paying for Spence vs Crawford either or anything that rewards these B-level "stars" in boxing to fight once per year.

PPVs are usually worth about 10$ or less so no wonder people don't wanna pay. Think about it, Oldtiz vs Martin was an inteteresting scrap but 40$? Nope.

Espinoza blaming piracy for fights not getting made is like saying the water on the ground causes the rain. Finest level nonsense.

[Bad_Guy]

This is what happens when you act like a bunch of greedy ****s and kill the sport by milking **** matchups as PPV.

[Fist_ti_cuffs]

The problem is selling a garbage product for a high price. A fight night like Wilder vs Helenius with trash undercard and short main event isn't worth 30$ and yet they can charge 90 for such trash.

Fights are often interesting but not worth the price tag. And no, ain't paying for Spence vs Crawford either or anything that rewards these B-level "stars" in boxing to fight once per year.

PPVs are usually worth about 10$ or less so no wonder people don't wanna pay. Think about it, Oldtiz vs Martin was an inteteresting scrap but 40$? Nope.

Espinoza blaming piracy for fights not getting made is like saying the water on the ground causes the rain. Finest level nonsense.

But I'm sure you'll being buying Usyk vs Dubois....SMH!!

[Wir109]

Will never pay for ppv the best doing it was Don King

Don king's undercard fights were better than many of the main event fights we get now.

[AmpMcv]

The problem is guy's like him. They lie to themselves. Quit pampering every single prospect by lining up a bunch of tomatoe cans and hollering to high heaven about how this is a fight of the year contender.

Boxing sucks. Judging sucks. Espinosa sucks. Hearn, Ellerbe & Arum suck. It's corrupt as heck. How many fights have ended in outrage the last 5 years? We see robberies ALL the time. Does he think we want to stay up until 1 am for that crap? I ain't paying a dime.

[Jab jab boom]

The bigger problem are boxers not being willing to fight the best opposition available consistently, promotional companies over charging for Ppv’s and then making trash undercards. Don Ming used to have the market on smash because he’d have a main event with Chavez and then have guys like terry Norris and Trinidad on the undercard.

[DClefthook]

It's so funny how people are up in arms about the price of PPV fights but these same people have no problem with expensive port subscriptions. Your credit cards are linked to more XXX port sites than regular retail sites. You goofy motha fuqers go to the strip clubs on payday and spend all your money on some where named lollipop and then spend whatever is leftover on call of duty downloads. STFU! Out of 365 days a year we probably have 6 or 7 that are PPV days which runs from 300-400 dollars a year. If you don't have that much money to spend on things you enjoy then you probably have bigger ussues in life you need to deal with. FOH!

[Boxing Scene]

They stop paying these idiots millions and charging $50 to $100 a fight and your problem is solved. It's absolutel insanity that these boxers make this much money.

[elmaravilla]

Piracy is not the problem. It also existed back in the 90s and 2000's when boxing events were selling at all time highs. It's the ridiculous pricing of $80+ for a PPV event, which usually doesn't even feature the biggest draw in boxing and a good undercard.