Why do so many people still buy PPV fights? It's 2013, not 1993

[The_Demon]

You aren't a real boxing fan if you are too stingy or poor to actually support the sport,what an idiot

[edgarg]

the same reason people still buy albums instead of just downloading it for free

Yes, I agree with you, it's just sheer ******ity. Boxing fans are not noted for spacious reasoning.

[edgarg]

PPVs are bad for the sport. As Ross Greenburg himself said:

"I can't tell you that pay-per-view helps the sport because it doesn't. It hurts the sport because it narrows our audience, but it's a fact of life. Every time we try to make an HBO World Championship Boxing fight, we're up against mythical pay-per-view numbers.

HBO doesn't make a lot of money from pay-per-view. There's usually a cap on what we can make. But the promoters and fighters insist on pay-per-view because that's where their greatest profits lie."

PPVs hurt boxing because they mean less people are going to see the best fighters in the sport. For a sport that already has limited exposure, it limits it even more. When you buy a PPV you're not helping boxing, you're making Schaefer/Oscar/Arum and Manny/Floyd that little bit richer.

I had something similar written out but as I so often do, I said..."why bother" and just cancelled it. But seeing your post which hits the situation squarely and accurately decided me to chip in with my applause.

[thuggery]

Imagine if the NBA finals where on PPV? It's absurd having to pay to watch a sport.

[Jloro]

i dont understand this either. i go to my friends house to watch ppv's. he hooks his laptop up to the tv and streams it. nobody finds the matches less entertaining because we're seeing it for free.

i saw this post earlier regarding andre ward fighting on ppv:



it's almost as if people want to and prefer to pay for fights and not just something they deal with because it's the only option. it baffles me.

Lol nice quoting me


God forbid people give money to a sport and fighter they love!

Like seriously have some friend over and put up 10 bucks each. Cheap ****heads lol

[Jloro]

Imagine if the NBA finals where on PPV? It's absurd having to pay to watch a sport.

now also imagine NBA players fighting to get to that point, and only a handful of them even get the chance

[StxWolf]

Because I make a good amount of money and I like the quality. If you paid for it you don't have to worry anywhere near as much about crappy resolution, freezing/choppy feeds, or the PPV being shut off midway through a fight.

Bingo. I have yet to see a live web feed that even comes close to the quality of the HD PPV.

Were I younger and broke I'm sure I'd make use of free web feeds. I'm not though. Being able to afford the occasional $70 PPV is one of the perks of having busted my ass working for the past 20 years.

[ИATAS]

Aint no one going to have a fight party huddled around a computer.

I don't remember the number but I believe for every PPV bought on average 6 people are watching. Big fights an event typically shared with friends and family.

[thesenuts]

For those saying you don't want to deal with crappy/choppy/laggy/freezing streams, you aren't looking hard enough. It is indeed 2013, you can watch streams in amazing quality hooked up to your TV via HDMI.

I still buy some PPVs, but ones that are not worth it get streamed.

Exactly. The quality of streaming has improved GREATLY over the last few years. A cable to hook up to your tv is cheap and combined with a high quality stream looks every bit as good as if you were to drop 60 bucks on a PPV match.

You people need to get with the times. Perhaps if more people stop buying these on bogus fights, the people who run boxing would wise up and start putting out fights that boxing fans demand.

[silentscoper]

I´m not so sure about that,boxers have been paid by the millions before PPV and the sport was just fine. PPV basically means they get to be a few millions richer,which you have been brainwashed into believing that´s ¨good¨ for the sport.

I never said that PPVs were "good" for the sport, I just stated that declining PPV sales are bad. As long as PPVs are still around declining sales of them will only appear as if boxing's fanbase has decreased. Other than them selling tickets they don't have any way to gauge the demand. That's just the way I see the system. I don't think the system is a good one but its the one that's in place until boxing can establish a place back on mainstream television (if that is even possible)