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

[jqSide]

That's why I would never, ever believe the reported PPV results or figures. They are all fake and exaggerated. I might believe them 2 decades ago when there was no internet.

Nah, not in this day and age. Even the 60K - 90K range are fake and exaggerated. Not to mention this sport has become as niche as ever. I have 4 brothers and we used to watch the sport together. Now they have zero interest in it.

All the reported numbers are fake. They should never be taken seriously. At all.

Espinoza himself have decided long time ago that he will only report numbers if they break 2.5 million buys.

Anything not coming from Showtime is bogus. It's made up.

[jqSide]

Here you go:

Espinoza Explains Showtime's Position on PPV Numbers



Espinoza said the network will only release the figures “if it’s a huge record setter, if we break 2.5 [million buys].” But “the normal course of business” will be to withhold the numbers, he said.

“I don’t think it’s particularly healthy,” he said of having the PPV results released to the public. “We just decided we didn’t want to particularly feed into it anymore.”

[tophat1]

Make the prices more affordable and limit the number of ppv events. Ppv should be just for the fights that cant be made without ppv money, if they overpay fighters its on them.

[GhostofDempsey]

Try putting on better fights and undercards. Force the best to fight one another.

[MulaKO]

Fugh off you fughin weasel