Comments Thread For: Crawford-Spence: PPV Event Generated More Than $55,000,000 In Domestic PPV Revenue

[Roj]

It's a lot of money and well done to all involved. But there's quite a disconnect between their boasts that this was the biggest fight at any weight for 10 years and underperforming Tank vs Ryan in sales.

I think Bud’s whole attitude leading up to the fight depressed the potential sales a bit. He was constantly angry sounding, overly sensitive and defensive in interviews and let his rabbit ears affect him so much that he got into a nasty verbal fight with someone at a press conference. He doesn’t have much personality and charisma anyway, but I’m convinced that turned some casuals off. The only thing that made Bud interesting was getting Eminem to walk him into the ring, but he should have had that sort of engaging approach all the way through the buildup.

Soence did far more to sell the fight - he pretty much did it on his own while both Davis and Garcia did their part to sell their fight.

[Roj]

Did less then half the business that Ryan-Tank did on a short promotional run LOLLL..

and that’s deemed a success!? LOL

Fury-Wilder fights all did more business and all were deemed a disappointment in terms of commercial success.. LOL..

Ryan Garcia is the new face of Boxeo PPV.. just further proof you need the correct promoter for these fights to bring the paying Latino fanbase to the table.

if we use your logic, that means a Garcia-Pitbull Cruz fight should easily do 1 million buys, right? So why isn’t it being made? Why is Cruz practically begging Tank Davis to give him a rematch?

[GFunk23]

Those numbers are underwhelming for a fight of this magnitude. I'm surprised it didn't come closer to 1m buys

[Bronx2245]

Yeah they all forget this was Bob’s position. Said this about Haney v Shakur.

And some wonder why Bud is suing him.

It's also the reason why we probably won't see Tank vs. Shakur in 2023! That's a shame because I'm sure it matches or surpasses Spence vs. Crawford!

[champion4ever]

Yeah Crawford was so hardheaded all of these years not joining them. He was holding the fight up during negotiations last year because he was skeptical of the PBC when all of his options are with them.

There is no place that Terence Crawford could go where he could earn this amount of money. Bob Arum, Top Rank and ESPN was only paying him a flat guaranteed contract/licensing fee of about $4mil a fight.

Also, it's ironic that Bob Arum said he lost money on Bud's fights. Well If he did lose money on his fights then it's because he is lousy promoter. All he has to do is take a good, long and hard look at the gross revenue Crawford generated in his last pay-per-view bout with Errol Spence.

You are right boss. Crawford should have left Top Rank and joined the PBC a long time ago because Top Rank was holding him back for years. He should have followed the blueprint of Oscar, Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao by leaving them.

[Raggamuffin]

There is no place that Terence Crawford could go where he could earn this amount of money. Bob Arum, Top Rank and ESPN was only paying him a flat guaranteed contract/licensing fee of about $4mil a fight.

Also, it's ironic that Bob Arum said he lost money on Bud's fights. Well If he did lose money on his fights then it's because he is lousy promoter. All he has to do is take a good, long and hard look at the gross revenue Crawford generated in his last pay-per-view bout with Errol Spence.

You are right boss. Crawford should have left Top Rank and joined the PBC a long time ago because Top Rank was holding him back for years. He should have followed the blueprint of Oscar, Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao by leaving them.

Bud didn’t have to join the PBC. Foh. The PBC should’ve couldve crossover over fights with Bud, but they chose to keep it in house. Haymon was the reason why Bud couldn’t fight any of those guys. Haymon managed some decent NAME WWs that he could tell to “go out there and make that money for me, we don’t need Bud right now” talk, lmao…. But Haymon knew that Bud was a serious threat to hurt his WW pockets which is why when the WW stable was cleaned out by Spence, he figured that since nobody thought that Thurman could beat Spence and Spence said that he’d never fight Thurman..he gave Spence the ok to fight Bud just keep it G lmao… He made enough money off of Spence and kept him safe for a time being. That’s the way true fans saw this scenario.

[champion4ever]

Fight won't sell? Sorry Bob Arum, but you were wrong again!

Bob only has himself to blame because he kept resigning Bud; After knowing full well in advance that he had no one for him to fight at welterweight. Which is probably the reason why he claims he lost money on his fights.

[OldTerry]

For such a huge population its terrible. What about if they dropped the price to $40 what sort of numbers would tune in then?

In my opinion it would improve the numbers some, but not by as much as you might think. Boxing is a niche sport and there are only so many true fans.

[OldTerry]

The figure places expected domestic PPV revenue north of $55,000,000 in addition to a live gate of more than $21,000,000 in ticket sales from an announced crowd of 19,990 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

It has not been that long ago that Eddie Hearn was saying, "Nobody wants to see Crawford vs Spence.
Spence and James were saying that it was only Spence who had the better PPV numbers, regardless of who he fought.
The Charlo cheer leaders were saying that Crawford should be humble and take 15 or 20 percent that Spence wanted to give him.
Al Hayman himself never said anything but, others attributed things to him, and none of it good.


Spence did nothing to make this fight happen until he wanted, needed, had too cash out, and BLK PRIME was behind the scenes and offering him the 'cash out money' that he wanted, but did not and no way deserve and PBC could not and would not deliver to him.

He should be thanking Crawford BLK Prime and not the other way around for making this fight happen.

Based on Spence's performance, I suspect you nailed it.

[OldTerry]

Bud has said straight out 154 is his limit.

That is also realistic. Crawford is 35 years old and at his peak and any move up beyond 154 would coincide with his decline in physical abilities. He would still be very good at 160, but like SRR not unbeatable.