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

[-MAKAVELLI-]

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

yea...it's not really just a matter of $70...i'm already paying like $150/mo...add $70 plus the taxes on top of that and i'm basically adding another $100 to my bill

[Infamous]

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

People still buy albums??? Really? Y? I still buy PPVs because the quality is better, but what's so different about an album that's paid for versus an album that's downloaded for free?

[Fetta]

I buy all cause i want a big screen with HD but this floyd fight i finally heard from friends that they steamed it for the first time and will go that route from now on. I guess its becoming that.

[Sweet Pea 50]

I'm not going into the whole "how much did the Mayweather PPV sell thing".

But just about everybody I know that buys fights, bought it.

My sister called me at around 6:30 asking if I was going to go over there to watch it. (She loves Floyd and Manny. She is a weirdo, though.)

Can't make it, sis. Sick.

My brother-in-law in the background:

"Pussy."

[RiC-DiC]

Best quality (HD), no chance of interruption, no lag. Pretty much a must have when you have guests.

[wangler the 3rd]

causer poeple aint broke like you. boxing is a businesss

[BIGBOXINGFAN]

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?

Streams are cool but there is nothing like a big fight party with the big screen on drinking a cold one with your friends and watching a great boxing match.

Beats sitting in front of a computer with slow streams that look like crap, stop and pause, with buffering problems.

[Mr Ehrmantraut]

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...

Haha that's me.

Got the official RBR thread open to refresh as soon as the round is over.

[billeau2]

because I'm able to afford it.

Hold up....you live in the Bay Area? you pay for housing in the Bay Area....No you are not able to afford no doggone pay per view!

[CityByTheBay]

Hold up....you live in the Bay Area? you pay for housing in the Bay Area....No you are not able to afford no doggone pay per view!

Lol....yes sir..I live in SF and I'm able to afford it pimp.