Comments Thread For: Arum: 90% of Fans Don't Care About The PPV Undercard

[hitking]

Arum is spot on.

[Beater_of_ass]

People don't give a **** about the undercard when it's ****ing garbage and that's what Top Rank usually does. Canelo is a decent fighter but nothing special and the right matching on Floyd's cards for so long made him a star. That is all the proof you need, just think if Golovkin was fighting on Manny's cards... or Sergio Martinez, Andre Ward, or Mickey Garcia and I can keep going. People watch at least the fight before, if not the whole thing... we just paid $65 you dumb old mother ****er I'm going to watch as much of it as I can.

[Vasyl’s dad]

People don't give a **** about the undercard when it's ****ing garbage and that's what Top Rank usually does. Canelo is a decent fighter but nothing special and the right matching on Floyd's cards for so long made him a star. That is all the proof you need, just think if Golovkin was fighting on Manny's cards... or Sergio Martinez, Andre Ward, or Mickey Garcia and I can keep going. People watch at least the fight before, if not the whole thing... we just paid $65 you dumb old mother ****er I'm going to watch as much of it as I can.

What about the people who didn't pay and don't post about boxing at all?


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[sweetpea87]

I'm in the 10% that does care about the undercard. If I have to pay the now ridiculous price of $75 for a PPV, the I want to see good match ups the whole night. I have bought PPV with ****ty undercards before, but since they have kept raising the prices I buy a lot less of them.

[al-Xander]

That's probably why Showtime is losing money. SHO/GBP spend more than they make as opposed to HBO/TR spending less, but makes more...On Mayweather fights alone, SHO will go bankrupt in no time starting from his $40 million guarantee, then he had to be supported with expensive boxing stars on Mexican holidays. It's good for the fans, but not necessarily for SHO's subscribers. PPVs are PPVs, you pay for them whether you're a subscriber or not. They spend gargantuan amounts of money on Mayweather fights that very few is left for the rest of the year. Look at how many stars they have who have been inactive for a long while now. I doubt they can do the weekly fights that HBO pulled during the end of last year. Strong undercards may be good, but if the result is infrequent fights for the rest of the year...

[El Malo.]

90% of fans care about spending $75.00 for 3 schit fights and a good main event. Charge $45.00 for your PPV's and no one would complain.....but we all know it ain't happening.

Agree. Plus sometimes the undercard fights are more entertaining then the main event which leaves a good inpression on the casual fans whom in return may look forward for the next event. When you spend $75 and the entire event is a disapointment it turns casuals away real fast

[Vasyl’s dad]

Agree. Plus sometimes the undercard fights are more entertaining then the main event which leaves a good inpression on the casual fans whom in return may look forward for the next event. When you spend $75 and the entire event is a disapointment it turns casuals away real fast

The casuals don't care about "the event". They just want to see the main fight, and thats it. They don't care about revenues, PPV #s, how many stars were there, etc. They just want to see if the hyped up fight was as good as the fight. More often than not, they end up disappointed. If promoters put more stock into the actual fights that are exciting, perhaps they would get more fans to tune in. Its rare that a PPV fight is the most exciting, or even a FOTY. In the last 25 years, maybe 5 of those were PPVs. How much attention did the Vazquez Marquez fights get? None. They didn't even sell t shirts or souvenirs at the fights. Very little stock is put into the known action fights because they aren't "big names". **** the big names and put on the best fights period.