Comments Thread For: Haye: The Klitschko Fight Will Outdo Lewis-Tyson on PPV

[Gumby McPokey]

Nobody would have cared about this fight a decade ago. The main reason why there is so much hype behind this fight is because Wladimir is fighting a genuine challenger and not some bloated fighter going for a paycheck.

The level of this interest just shows how these Klitschko Bros have ruined the HW division for a decade with their robotic style of fighting and nobody wants to pay to watch mundane fights.

I'd have thought we'd been through this often enough.

1) Wladimir has fought a much higher level of opposition than has David Haye.

2) Haye fans have paid a surprising amount of money to watch fights that don't even reach the level of "mundane". The Valuev and Harrison fights were complete jokes, but somehow David Haye's fans continue to buy into his claim of being "exciting".

[Dave Rado]

you know, not everyone is american

Yes, but see here.

[Dave Rado]

Tyson was beyond shot when he fought Lewis and he also got caught smoking drugs prior to the fight,so if this fight beats that ridiculous fight fraud named Tyson -Lewis it is not a big deal.

Of course it would be a big deal if it beat that fight because that fight broke all PPV records. But it can't beat that fight, because most of the PPV sales for that fight were in the US, and this fight won't be on US PPV. The UK PPV for this fight has no chance whatsoever of doing better than the combined US and UK PPV for that fight.

[Manny#1ATG]

The fight is on regular HBO here. More Americans would know Klit from TMZ than from seeing him box. If you showed people a picture of Haye nobody would know who he is.

[Dave Rado]

Yeah i get irritated sometimes when people talk like america is the only country that watches and buy boxing event, Am pretty sure Haye was refering to PPV sales in the UK or Europe,

If so he was being highly misleading. See here.