Comments Thread For: Gennady Golovkin and The Pay-Per-View Dance Partner

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

By Cliff Rold - The numbers aren’t official yet but estimates as of Wednesday had the Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux middleweight unification bout doing between 125-150,000 pay-per-view buys. Prior to the fight, the Golovkin team tried to temper expectations by saying something in the ballpark of 200,000 would be a home run for the promotion.

The ball stayed in the yard.

It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback (can a basketball analogy work it’s way in here? Time will tell…) so let’s go ahead and do it.

Could more have been done to build the promotion outside the ticket buying audience in New York? It was certainly a gate success. Priced right for consumers, Golovkin-Lemieux packed the house and the house was loud. They were loud for the main event, loud for Roman Gonzalez-Brian Viloria, and really loud for Donald Trump.

It was a fine night at the fights.

If one wasn’t going to be there live, seeing it live doesn’t appear to have been a high priority for US households. Had the fight been on HBO, it likely does a solid number with US viewers in the millions. [Click Here To Read More]

[doom_specialist]

150K buys sounds like good numbers for a debut IMO. If he can get the other top guys at 160 to face him, his stock will definitely keep rising.

[LA fight fan]

no ward no p4p

ggg - ur fun to watch and strong ... but put the bong down
canelo and cotto won't fight u at 160 so u will have to beat them at 155 - which u can

or if u want to be p4p fight ward at 168 ... or miss ur window and hit singles and doubles at best - but no home runs

ur choice ...

[SlySlickSmooth]

150K buys sounds like good numbers for a debut IMO. If he can get the other top guys at 160 to face him, his stock will definitely keep rising.

The only guys that matter are:

Winner of Quillin-Jacobs
Wnner of Cotto-Canelo
Andy Lee

It would take less than 2 years to get those fights in since GGG fights 3+ times a month. The dates just need to be sorted out.

Eubank Jr. and Saunders hold no real worth or challenge at the moment.

Ievgen Khytrov, the only real promising prospect I've seen is still very early in his development.

[Sancho Puncho]

If this PPV numbers are correct, than GGG team may need to rethink their handling of Ward issue. At this point they should forget an A-side bs and make that fight happen before Ward-Kovalev.

[MagikLair]

Regarding Ward

Is there much demand for him to fight Ward.. I mean Ward has been in the witness protection plan for like four years.

[Illmatic94]

damn that was a hard flop.

cotto/canelo winner will treat him like a scrub in negotiations (if it even gets to that).

155lb , 80-20 split. take it or leave it

but ward is a nobody? this nobody just lined up the biggest fight of next year to crown a new p4p king.

i like triple g, but that guy sanchez was talking crazy sht, he not only dismissed ward as irrelevant, he said monroe was a bigger name than lara.

now its their turn to get btch slapped by a true A side.

cotto/nelo winner will now say triple g is a nobody.

[aboutfkntime]

By Cliff Rold - The numbers aren’t official yet but estimates as of Wednesday had the Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux middleweight unification bout doing between 125-150,000 pay-per-view buys. Prior to the fight, the Golovkin team tried to temper expectations by saying something in the ballpark of 200,000 would be a home run for the promotion.....

The last sentence is fair, especially the bold.....

" At middleweight, it would be fair to grumble that he had been unfairly denied his defining moment. Beyond 160, we'd have to ask if maybe he'd denied himself ".

But at 160, Golovkins defining moment is the Cotto/Canelo winner.

If he denies the winner a reasonable catchweight, knowing that the winner will be stripped.... then Golovkin will have denied himself his defining moment at 160 just like he did at 168.

I hope not.

Team Golovkin appear to want every advantage, and they appear unwilling to take any type of risk. It would be a pity it that fight fell through because Golovkin wanted to take the easy way out again.

[aboutfkntime]

If this PPV numbers are correct, than GGG team may need to rethink their handling of Ward issue. At this point they should forget an A-side bs and make that fight happen before Ward-Kovalev.

Pretty sure that boat has sailed.

[aboutfkntime]

Is there much demand for him to fight Ward.

Who ?

I mean Ward has been in the witness protection plan for like four years.

He got out on parole.

They should never let people like that out.