Comments Thread For: Destruction Of The Pay-Per-View Template

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By Jake Donovan - Say what you want about this weekend’s matchup between faded legends Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones. In the end, it’s a matchup necessary for both fighters if they insist upon fighting on.

The fact that it was bound for pay-per-view was inevitable the moment it gained a realistic chance of becoming a reality. This much was accepted, even if not overwhelmingly embraced – HBO’s own involvement is limited to that of distributor, not investing a dime into the production end of the broadcast. [Click Here To Read More]

[Left Right Left]

Sad part is I dont think that this fight will reach over 100K in paperview sales. I for one am interested in watching this fight but not for the $50 price tag associated with it!! And as far as the undercards are concerned promoters should really feel ashamed with the lack luster cards they are showing. Especially with the hefty fee that come with the paperview buy. But what can we do?

[RSBonos]

I'm a boxing addict but even I can't bring myself to waste money on this.

Note to the promoters, if you would have made even a minor effort in putting on a decent undercard I would have purchased this POS PPV.

[Maidana vs Rios]

So does this mean Lampley, Steward, Lederman, and Merchant/Kellerman won't be working this fight?

[KILLA RIGHT]

What a piece of **** card

[gauze]

personally, i dont buy ppv's and i never will again. but even watching these undercards on free streams is so painful and hard to endure. they should just get rid of televised undercards altogether if they arent gonna show anything worthwhile. hyped boxers (jacobs or any GB/top rank future hopeful) should be getting their inevitable victories against bums/exposure on friday night fights

[REMOVED SHARK 97]

Boxing isn't available to the general market, so it's not reaching it's maximum audience for it's major (use this loosely for Roid and Boredhard) stars.

Who the **** pays for this crap anyway.

[Sabembe]

This fight should put under charity boxing match that the proceeds be donated to the needy. There is no excitement on this fight anymore. If the promoter(s) of this event tought of profit, I won't say no chnace at all, but lets see how it goes anyway.

[gingeralbino]

personally, i dont buy ppv's and i never will again. but even watching these undercards on free streams is so painful and hard to endure. they should just get rid of televised undercards altogether if they arent gonna show anything worthwhile. hyped boxers (jacobs or any GB/top rank future hopeful) should be getting their inevitable victories against bums/exposure on friday night fights

its actually not a bad idea scrapping the undercard altogether (for tv, the fans in the audience will need to see a few fights) if its gona be complete ****e, just show the main event stars' previous fights.

A better idea would be to put some entertaining well matched fighters against each other, they dont have to be well known, just some guys with a half decent chin who have no idea what defence is and let them batter each other!

[xAUGUSTUSx]

They need to start putting together good fights for the undercard. Then they need to hype those fights aswell as the main event. Thats how the UFC does it and people enjoy they're whole cards that they put on. You should be somewhat entertained for the 2 hours that you payed $50 for. Seeing preview clips of the main event over and over does'nt cut it. They need to start catering to the boxing fan. Instead they cater to people who don't follow the sport on a daily business. If they keep ****ting on the actual fans of the sport one day we might not be here anymore. So GBP,Toprank,etc need to smarten the **** up!