The New Face of Boxing: Dmitry "Mr. 45K" Bivol draws 45K PPV Buys in his Rematch with Artur Beterbiev. A Card in which Turki Alalshikh proclaimed the greatest boxing card of all time.

[BirdSong]

Disgusting...a fight card of this magnitude deserved AT LEAST a million buys. Anyhow, if this is true, it begs the question how the hell are the Saudis making any money from boxing (in addition to paying the huge fighter & promoter salaries) and for how much longer will this continue?

its working for them they are involved with so many sports saudi dealings are normal now which is a W for them cong**** perfectly executed sports washing

[crimsonfalcon07]

Disgusting...a fight card of this magnitude deserved AT LEAST a million buys. Anyhow, if this is true, it begs the question how the hell are the Saudis making any money from boxing (in addition to paying the huge fighter & promoter salaries) and for how much longer will this continue?

Making money isn't the point. You are talking about people who make enough passive income in an hour to buy out Top Rank or any of the other major promotions.

And this stuff is just unconfirmed numbers with no source for just US buys, nevermind the rest of the world. The US isn't really the center of boxing anymore anyways, and the fight card was at a time that only worked for those of us with disposable income and time off during the day. As one of those who bought the card, I loved it from top to bottom except for Shakur. Pacing was way better, and I liked having the day for boxing, and then still having the night to spend with my woman.

[Nash out]

The Great Nash bought it and you can't put a price on that. The night was a huge success. Nash out - His Most Majestic Majesty

[HisExcellency]

its working for them they are involved with so many sports saudi dealings are normal now which is a W for them cong**** perfectly executed sports washing

Yes something doesn't add up because they're certainly NOT making any money from it!

[HisExcellency]

Making money isn't the point. You are talking about people who make enough passive income in an hour to buy out Top Rank or any of the other major promotions.

And this stuff is just unconfirmed numbers with no source for just US buys, nevermind the rest of the world. The US isn't really the center of boxing anymore anyways, and the fight card was at a time that only worked for those of us with disposable income and time off during the day. As one of those who bought the card, I loved it from top to bottom except for Shakur. Pacing was way better, and I liked having the day for boxing, and then still having the night to spend with my woman.

Agreed but why do you think they've entered boxing (and other sports such as football and golf) if they're NOT making any money? Surely it can't just be to boost the public profile of the country and to turn it into the next major tourist destination like Dubai?!

As for the card itself, I also bought it and felt that I got MORE than my money's worth. Also, like you said, it's GREAT that they listened to the fans and stacked the card with competitive fights from top to bottom and reduced the time between fights.

[BirdSong]

Yes something doesn't add up because they're certainly NOT making any money from it!

the point is NOT to make money the point is to normalize relations with the ROTW and its working great!!!

[Dakuwaqa]

Shoutout to Shakur's 10 fans helping up the ppv buy numbers

Report: The Last Crescendo US PPV Buys The Riyadh Season event, headlined by the undisputed light heavyweight rematch between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol has reportedly done an estimated 45,000 PPV buys in the United States.


The event, Turki Alalshikh-led event, self-christened the greatest boxing card of all time, was available for purchase at $25.99, live on DAZN PPV.

https://x.com/brunchboxing/status/18...VCM7SVJdHGukBg

You seemed pleased that a brilliant card of boxing did badly? Are you even a boxing fan?

[Dakuwaqa]

Two slavs that avoided each other until one of them was a past his prime 40 year old? And people are surprised this didn't do well?

Two slavs? What a Chechen and a half Korean?

[ELPacman]

I also hate the start time being on the East Coast. It's a bad time because a lot of folks are doing their Saturday weekend errands around then. I'd much prefer to wind down and enjoy a fight with some drinks and food later in the evening, than in the middle of the day when I know I need to go to places. It's like putting an anchor on yourself where you really don't want to miss it, but you got **** to do. So it doesn't surprise when the sales are terrible.

Though I don't think Turki and team really care about the sales. They're not in it for that, but the big picture. Putting eyes on Saudi Arabia as the new business capital of the world. Whether staging big events there, pulling in investors and to increase development projects. Or to simply increase tourism. Anything that can get more eyes on the country and make people remember that it exists and isn't such a bad place to go.

[HandsofIron]

I tried to argue this with somebody on here, but most are too thick headed.

The format was bound to fail, the fight was way too early state side and both Beterbiev and Bivol are unknown to the casuals. Should have done the fights in Germany or Russia.