Comments Thread For: Kovalev Sees Andre Ward as Perfect Pay-Per-View Foe

[tiliheels]

I think 200K-250K will be a huge success. Anything exceeding that will Floyd-Manny numbers boggle my mind.

one thing i know about white america is if you're white..YOU ARE WHITE...SIMPLE AS THAT

[tiliheels]

isnt it Haymon who gives free tickets for his fights?Imagine Hbo doing this for GGG fights...they would need some football arena

certain fights to promote his fighters he's allowed fans to fill the seats..it is a way of building his brand and like i said promoting his new charges...but garcia vs khan2, peterson2 ,broner, porter, or thurman are all better than ggg vs lemieux if u really know david...

[hitking]

in PPV fights "guarateed money" comes from PPV buys.What comes on top is a bonus when PPV numbers where higher than ppv expectations

So according to you, two guys making their PPV debuts, are basing guarantees off projected buy rates. I know Schaefer is gone and GGG's folks are new to this. But they can't be that ******.

[hitking]

one thing i know about white america is if you're white..YOU ARE WHITE...SIMPLE AS THAT

Race plays a huge part in boxing. Always has, always will. Its ridiculous for folks to pretend it doesn't. That said, boxing basically has a cult following at this point. These fighters aren't nearly as popular ad these new fight fans think they are. I deal with casual fights, as do most of us all the time. And in the last year or so. I've talked up GGG as a guy that could beat Floyd among casuals. And 0% of them had ever heard of GGG.

[sicko]

Easy on the PPV's HBO! Boxing is not that damn popular for everybody to be fighting on PPV. However, I would be OK with this fight on PPV as well as GGG vs Ward but not everything is PPV Worthy! GGG vs Lemieux I don't think is PPV Worthy but HBO has a Budget so they just can't put all these fights on their Network, some of them must be on PPV for them to happen so I understand that.

But in orders to be successful on HBO, these fighters need to do a better job at capturing the attention of the Casual American Fans and it takes more than Knockouts to do that! You have to be interesting outside of the ring as well and that is why a lot of fighters while popular with Boxing Fans, they're literally unknown away from boxing.

[hitking]

I prefer Stevenson v Kov myself as do most rational boxing fans whose opinions are not designed to help HBO keep their in house fighters from facing their toughest opponents.

Gotta disagree with you there homie. IMO Stevenson isn't special. He's almost a light heavyweight version of Cotto. Caught the champion at the perfect time. And even though he has the belt, isn't the best in the division. We know Ward is legit. Kovalev appears to be legit.

[brettWall]

What would be the reason why a boxing fan would reject this fight?

[Najuk]

certain fights to promote his fighters he's allowed fans to fill the seats..it is a way of building his brand and like i said promoting his new charges...but garcia vs khan2, peterson2 ,broner, porter, or thurman are all better than ggg vs lemieux if u really know david...

how can guys with several loses be better than undefeated champions or current champions with 1 lose?

[Najuk]

What would be the reason why a boxing fan would reject this fight?

Ward moving up

[hitking]

how can guys with several loses be better than undefeated champions or current champions with 1 lose?

Who was better, Sven Ottke or James Toney????