Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemiuex Does Roughly 150,000 PPV Buys

[boxinghead530]

Excuses.... Lil g flopped because he fought a bum. Same reason Floyd flopped with berto and same reason poochiao flopped with algieri/Rios.

How is what I said an excuse. If GGG was American and won the gold medal as an American, his star power here would be out of this world and this PPV would have been a giant success. So yes him not being an American plays a huge role in this PPV not doing all that great.

[The Big Dunn]

Yet when people use the excuse of baseball, WNBA, time of season, etc being a reason why PBC's ratings arent up to par, its totally acceptable by you to be brought up in the thread topic. GTFO...

More deflection. That wasn't me Deveel916. At no point did I ever support any other poster saying PBC ratings were the result of baseball, wnba or anything else. That thread will prove this.

Come on ow Deveel916, no need for dishonest deflection. Lets keep the discussion civil please.

[Deevel916]

More deflection. That wasn't me Deveel916. At no point did I ever support any other poster saying PBC ratings were the result of baseball, wnba or anything else. That thread will prove this.

Come on ow Deveel916, no need for dishonest deflection. Lets keep the discussion civil please.

You didnt call them out on it either like you're doing here though.

[The Big Dunn]

We haven't talked about this before the fight, you're thinking of someone else. It's my first time commenting on this topic. My points still stand, and I don't think anyone would argue them.
-Cable TV and PPV are dying because of internet streaming and Netflix/Hulu
-Having a country behind you means good PPV numbers
-Comparing a fight between 2 foreigners in USA to Floyd is silly.

No one is arguing that the event flopped, at least according to the promoter who said that anything above 200k is a success. They overestimated their ability to promote the fight on PPV.

My point is making these points now, even though they are valid, comes off as excuse making. we didn't see from any GGG fans was this kind of solid reasoning prior to the fight.

Makes you wonder why the call getting head "brains" because the GGG fans doing the most slurping made the most ******ed posts.

I wish the bulk of the GGG fans had your attitude about this.

[Box-Office]

Yeah, as in Ward's numbers were crap.

BET is free, not even subscription, if this **** was on free tv it would've easily cracked the million mark, considering Berto-Lopez was 860K, how do you go from writing those marketing blogs to making posts like these? F.ck sakes.

[LacedUp]

BET is free, not even subscription, if this **** was on free tv it would've easily cracked the million mark, considering Berto-Lopez was 860K, how do you go from writing those marketing blogs to making posts like these? F.ck sakes.

Mate, you're still not reading what I'm saying

ffs.

[NEETzsche]

as you could see from the pre-fight sticky for golovkin-lemieux, there simply wasn't much to discuss about the fight. no real question of who would win and no element of nationalistic fan boyism. if golovkin vs cotto or canelo gets made i expect a bunch of prs/mexicans to come out of the woodwork who truly believe their guy will win, which will incite debate and build hype

[The Big Dunn]

You didnt call them out on it either like you're doing here though.

No I didn't. I show humility to those that display it. If you want me to, bump that thread.

More deflection. Your hands must be ping pong paddles.

As for this thread-about the ppv sales from Saturday- we should be able to discuss in a civil way.

Maybe you and other GGG fans will deign to discuss the possibility that maybe you guys got a little to full of yourselves when discussing GGG's star power.

I wanted this fight to sell more but seeing you and some of the absolute worst garbage on this site scramble to make excuses has been enjoyable.

[j0zef]

My point is making these points now, even though they are valid, comes off as excuse making. we didn't see from any GGG fans was this kind of solid reasoning prior to the fight.

Makes you wonder why the call getting head "brains" because the GGG fans doing the most slurping made the most ******ed posts.

I wish the bulk of the GGG fans had your attitude about this.

I know what you're saying, and yes, most fans get carried away with the (they're gonna do 400k!) proclamations. I personally thought 200k-250k and was disappointed.

And yeah.. some posters here spew some of the dumbest crap ever. Poster by name of "Golovkin" is worst one =/

[boxinghead530]

i agree with you, but try to explain that to delusional golovkids who were saying he is the next ppv king, already had him at a cotto canelo level of popularity... this is why this thread has so many pages...

GGG is a super talent and is star in the boxing realm. But it's takes more than that to succeed in America. You have to have a built in fan base. Guys like Canelo, Pacquiao, Chavez sr, Tito Trinidad, who are all not from the US had a built in fanbase because there is million and millions of Mexicans here, millions and millions of Philippinos here and millions and millions of Puerto Ricans here. So all it took for them to succeed was winning.

GGG is from a country(idk what country he is from) where there is not of whole lot of them here in the US. So for him to catch the American audiences attention it's going to be hard. So his fanbase comes from only hardcore boxing fans and with the boxing fans being so divided these days that makes his base even smaller. It's going to be tough for him to succeed on the PPV stage if he is not fighting someone like Canelo or Cotto who would generate the big numbers for him.