Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis vs. Lamont Roach is 'a hard pill to swallow'

[brettWall]

Why would anyone care who this guy fights? He's making tens of millions of dollars fighting nobodies.


According to this bogus writer, obviously a fanboy, Davis made $25 million in the Frank Martin fight. And Frank himself made $3.25 million. See how these clowns massively exaggerate figures?

https://www.thesportster.com/gervont...rses-earnings/


Just years ago uncle Al paying his fighters $1 million was a huge deal. How in Neptune purses became so significantly huge in this day and age of fans streaming fights for free? Size of the fights are not even that any bigger compared to fights in the past where boxing is still relatively popular? Maidana vs Broner is hands-down bigger, yet did Broner made at least $5 million?

How the *** PBC able to pay Davis $25 million fighting an unknown Martin? $25 million for such a small fight.

Which is why you don't take any figure coming out in this sport nowadays, PPV numbers, purses, estimated earnings, etc. seriously. They are massively exaggerated. If you've been following boxing at least starting from when PBC started, you know exactly the realistic figures are. Danny Garcia's purse, for example, in the Rod Salka fight was $700K, which was seen as already huge at that time. Leo Santa Cruz made $750K vs a former sparring partner. Again it's seen as huge. And these figures were not hard to find at that time. $1 million is a huge deal even to this day. How in the world it went from $1 million to $10 to $25 million? What changed? Certainly not the size of the fights, not the PPV numbers, not the crowd size, not the investors, etc. What changed is bogus writers, like you said, youtube channels that lie about anything and get away with it.

[DClefthook]

that why he consistently sells under 100k ppvs

and you chose poop**** as a screen name

[DClefthook]

Heys guys I have this radical age-old idea that used to work great. If you like the fight and want to buy it then do it. If you don't like the fight then don't buy it. Fuqing simple!!!

[Jc8804]

This fight is a waste , its dookie .

This is glorified sparring vs an inferior opponent .
Cherry pick


I wont be supporting such garbage

[DClefthook]

The funny thing is that all of you that complain about the PPV fights and yell and scream that you're not going to buy it doesn't make any difference at all. The networks (Prime, Espn, Sho, hbo, Dazn) all know who is and isn't going to buy the fights when they decide to make it a PPV. Neilson ratings my friends! They work on cable and streaming services as well. They have data on every address in America about who does what in that house. Every address has a well documented history on every PPV that was purchased. They know which credit card under whatever name was used. They know if this house only buys Canelo - De la Hoya - JCC fights and they see what the pattern is. In my house (which was built in Sept 2004 - happy 20 yr anniv to me) they can see that I purchase PPVs featuring Tank, Canelo, Spence, Wilder, Pacman, PPVweather, De la hoya, Tyson and so on. They know they can count on me to purchase Tank vs Lamont. So they can crunch their numbers and project that the fight will hit a certain amount. Once both fighters are satisfied with their take then the decision will be made to make it a PPV. They already know if there is going to be a profit. That's why when you lying jealous mothasuckas keep saying that Tank only did 50k in PPV sales and then you are shocked to see his next fight going right back on PPV you stoopid idiots cant figure it out! That's why Shakur's debut on matchroom was going to be a PPV and then the numbers came in and all of a sudden he hurt his pinky finger. Dazn was going to lose bigtime on that fight!!! And besides all of what I just shared, you poor broke ass suckas don't have 80 to spend if top rank told you they would send those two sexy ass ring girls over for the night for that amount. haha

[BrankoB]

Heys guys I have this radical age-old idea that used to work great. If you like the fight and want to buy it then do it. If you don't like the fight then don't buy it. Fuqing simple!!!

I wonder how many people on this forum actually buy fight - pay for tickets or ppvs. Just thinking out loud. I used to but I don't any more.

[rickJen]

It's possible PBC has no money for big fights. This is the cheapest they can make for their supposed cash cow.
I would have maximized my take home pay if I were Roach since I'm their only choice.

[elegua]

This guy was supposed to fight Loma 5 years ago. What happened? Now he's trying to sell fights fighting any bump. What a nerve! Floyd style...

[fistandfury]

As long as Tank's fans keep buying tickets and ppvs, he will keep doing it. Easy money for no risk and little effort. He clearly does not care what boxing experts are saying of what boxing fans on forums like these are saying. If I was making $10M per fight by cherry picking easy opponents, I must say, I would probably do it too.

Little effort? Are you serious? When is the last time you did an 8 week training camp?

[fistandfury]

I wonder how many people on this forum actually buy fight - pay for tickets or ppvs. Just thinking out loud. I used to but I don't any more.

CRAZY to think about, I haven't bought a PPV since Mayweather/Marquez, and that's after decades of buying, boxing is literally pricing fans out of the product. Beyond ******.