Originally posted by Nay_Sayer
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Gennady Golovkin vs David Lemiuex Does Roughly 150,000 PPV Buys
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I don't know that PPV is a totally dying model but there is a clear way to do it right which I don't think they really did.
The fight quite simply needed to marinate, mainly on the Lemieux end. Lemieux was a fairly obscure guy even with his title. That title fight was on like FS2 when those stations were brand new, I remember the fight thread because I was watching the fight and there were maybe 10 dudes in that thread for what was a quality fight. More people were watching the garbage Ward fight simply because more people had access to BET.
He needed more exposure to really be a PPV B-side, a couple decent looking wins on HBO along with some talk of the fight building over time would have done wonders. If they were serious about maximizing PPV numbers anyway
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Originally posted by Nay_Sayer View PostIf these numbers hold true then Bumlovkin can just forget about a Cotto or Canelo fight.
I bet that Andre Ward fight is looking very tempting to K2 right about now. Ward vs "B" Side Bumlovkin coming Spring 2016.
Lol..
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It makes me happy. If it would have been big, every fight after this with him in it would have been PPV. Reality is a good thing. The sport will only get more sliced and diced with pay per views. Sick of them.
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Originally posted by The Gambler1981 View PostI don't know that PPV is a totally dying model but there is a clear way to do it right which I don't think they really did.
The fight quite simply needed to marinate, mainly on the Lemieux end. Lemieux was a fairly obscure guy even with his title. That title fight was on like FS2 when those stations were brand new, I remember the fight thread because I was watching the fight and there were maybe 10 dudes in that thread for what was a quality fight. More people were watching the garbage Ward fight simply because more people had access to BET.
He needed more exposure to really be a PPV B-side, a couple decent looking wins on HBO along with some talk of the fight building over time would have done wonders. If they were serious about maximizing PPV numbers anyway
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Originally posted by Jsmooth9876 View Post9 million would be 150,000 sales plus gate and sponsors...GGG made 2 million...Lemieux 1.5 million.. The main undercard was a couple hundred grand each guy I think...
They probably made out ok but hoped to make much more...
Also, does this number include Canadian PPV?
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Originally posted by Luiz View PostPay per view is a rapidly declining market. Mayweather just did around 400K. Cotto-Martinez was around 250K. 150K is a solid debut.
— Chris Mannix (@ChrisMannixSI) October 20, 2015
If Canelo vs Cotto does 400k I think we can start talking about maybe Floyd vs Manny & Manny vs his subpar opponents pre-Floyd & Floyd vs subpar Berto post-Manny PPV's having a overall negative impact on PPV, but I think its just the formula of fights seen as lacking in competitiveness &/or hype not generating big numbers not the PPV going to ****.
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