Has PPV done any good to Boxing?

[Davros?]

I cant think of to much good that it has done apart from giving a few fighters big loads of cash. Has PPV done anything good to boxing?

[titanium]

It helps the fighters but hurts the fan base, so overall it has hurt boxing.

[withoutthee666]

It helps the fighters but hurts the fan base, so overall it has hurt boxing.

It hurts the fighters by turning away fans.

[$Bullsfam$]

It definitely hasnt. Boxing would be so much bigger again if they showed a few big fights on National TV like ABC or CBS.

Mosley vs Pac was tailor made for CBS. **** showing the countdown ***** on there, SHOW THE FIGHT!!!

[bojangles1987]

It wouldn't be a problem if it was just big fighters that can reliably draw a large number. If a fight can't sell 300,000 PPVs, it shouldn't be on PPV. Maybe lower that to 200,000.

Boxing is not an easily accessible sport, PPVs are part of that.

[luke1979]

No. If you wanted to intentionally go about ruining the sports fanbase because you hated boxing, introducing ppv is a good start. Short term gain and greed from the promoters and a handful of fighters is exactly that short term. The model will continue though as long as there are people dumb enough and/or rich enough to pay for it. The advent of live streaming will hopefully force the issue to be reviewed. 3d movies in the cinema are just a reaction to stem piracy and they will probably do the same thing more and more over time with boxing on ppv to combat live streams. Hopefully though they will realise bringing it back to the masses is the best option and make their money from advertising revenue and be happy. They wont make the same obscene amounts granted but the wealth and exposure would be more evenly spread and the sport will become stronger and more sustainable. We will never have icons the size of Ali in the future as long as there is ppv limiting the exposure of the best boxers to only die hard fans.

[$Bullsfam$]

It wouldn't be a problem if it was just big fighters that can reliably draw a large number. If a fight can't sell 300,000 PPVs, it shouldn't be on PPV. Maybe lower that to 200,000.

Boxing is not an easily accessible sport, PPVs are part of that.

Totally agree with this.

It's also pretty sad when the only way you can get the whole world to watch a fight is to sell out and say "it's the fight to save boxing!" When anybody who knows anything about boxing knew that Floyd-Oscar would never be a Gatti-Ward, Hagler-Hearns, Ali/Frazier type fight to really put boxing back in the mainstream.

[J.R]

Without doing any research...

Football is like the most popular sport in the UK right, maybe even the world, but TV stations don't charge it's fans to watch matches, yet boxing is maybe 4th most popular in the UK after Cricket, Football & Tennis, and it doesn't even make the front OR back pages like Football does yet they fleece us of our money to watch what the suits deem to be a PPV 'event'......

It's bullshit, start charging football fans and put boxing on Sky Sports.

[-Boxzilla-]

Overall its bad but at least the whole sport isnt ppv only basis like UFC. I don't mind a ppv once a quarter at most anymore then that is too much. Lowering the cost and online buying options would be smart as well

[Pac-KO]

Without doing any research...

Football is like the most popular sport in the UK right, maybe even the world, but TV stations don't charge it's fans to watch matches, yet boxing is maybe 4th most popular in the UK after Cricket, Football & Tennis, and it doesn't even make the front OR back pages like Football does yet they fleece us of our money to watch what the suits deem to be a PPV 'event'......

It's bullshit, start charging football fans and put boxing on Sky Sports.

I think rugby and maybe even golf is more popular than boxing in the uk