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

[Southpawology]

Everyone these days has a computer/laptop with a high speed internet connection. It's extremely easy to stream any live feed for FREE. I don't understand why people are paying $50-$60 for a PPV fight when google is your best friend.


Anyone have an explanation for this?

Because if you support the sport and the fight you should buy it instead of mooching off streams. I can understand streaming a fight in a foreign country thats not on tv though, but if you support boxing you should buy the PPV.

[BUNGALOWS]

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.

Good point. I meant for mega fights though. I agree, anything less than a mega fight should be on HBO/ESPN/FOX or another national station.

[Bushbaby]

I agree. I'm a proud streamer right now. I ain't buying $h!t.

[Sweet Pea 50]

Meh, I could make the excuse that Comcast is already getting me for over $200 a month.

[PeterinMI]

Everyone these days has a computer/laptop with a high speed internet connection. It's extremely easy to stream any live feed for FREE. I don't understand why people are paying $50-$60 for a PPV fight when google is your best friend.


Anyone have an explanation for this?

I go to the theater to watch the big fights like Mayweather bouts. Next best thing to being at the fight and the prices are better than PPV.

[COYG]

Good point. I meant for mega fights though. I agree, anything less than a mega fight should be on HBO/ESPN/FOX or another national station.

But is not that part of the problem, you limit the audience for the biggest fights, how is that supposed to increase the interest in boxing.

For instance if the Superbowl were to be on PPV would that not do damage to that sport?

[Grimmer]

'Cause I got a job and am not a cheapskate lol

[CityByTheBay]

because I'm able to afford it.

[BUNGALOWS]

But is not that part of the problem, you limit the audience for the biggest fights, how is that supposed to increase the interest in boxing.

For instance if the Superbowl were to be on PPV would that not do damage to that sport?

That's true. It's combat sports, so what can you do?

[BostonGuy]

Sometimes it's nice to make the fight "an event" like the supah bowl. You show the fight on a nice plasma flat screen with surround sound and you sit comfortably on your couch, instead of hunched over a tiny computer screen watching a ****ty chopping internet stream and switching back and forth from the fight to boxingscene...