So Glaser says GGG got 97,000 buys? He better start cutting carbs

[krazyn8tive]

Triple Flop fans are out guns blazing right now. You better tell the admins to delete this thread. FFF fans are coming for you. There have been some casualties (Barcham, mod bashing), Malgus (Vicious race baiting) post-flop armageddon which fueled them even more. First Triple Flop's ppv flopped, and then one of their Queen Bees got in exterminated, and the little cochroach Malgus got squashed. Banning are being handed out to these guys because Triple Flop's PPV flop is showing their true colors.

Wtf did I just read?

[Bardock]

Wtf did I just read?

Thats your boy kev

[STAX ON DECK]

what a failure,wow

[M Bison]

If true and it only did 97k buys, then boxing is basically dead in America, and the floyd/manny fight killed it. Ever since that fight, PPv numbers have been way down (albeit a small sample size)..

Maybe it doesn't sound good for boxing if it did that low, you have to remember sometimes fighting good can only do you so much If the public don't know who you are and I think this might be one of the problems which HBO would need to deal with if true.

[Larry the boss]

WBC wont force the GGG fight so hard now watch..

[mexicali90]

oh the excuses.....

Lol now its "who's this glaser?"

[glenn mcrory]

Its obvious people are saving their money for the Cotto-Canelo one, which should get a bit better numbers.
Then again, The Andre Ward inclusion might end up massively and negatively affecting those.

[FeFist]

If you don't think manny/floyd had an adverse effect on the casual fans, then you are wrong..
97k is beyond crap for a PPv.. Even mosely-mora and hopkins-dawson did more than that, and this was by far a better card..

I'm not trying to spin it for ggg,, it appears to be a giant flop, but I do think casuals just don't give a **** anymore after floyd/manny...

The fights you listed involved bigger and more proven stars.

It's not that the casuals don't give a **** about boxing. It is that they don't give a **** about GGG. As much as people tried to hype him up as some superstar, prattling on about his iWatch commercials, he hasn't connected with people to the point that they're willing to shell money on his fights.

The fight shouldn't have been on PPV and they should have spent more time getting him familiar with their targeted audience.

[saintpat]

If Glazer is right then this whole making GGG a PPV star is going to be put on hold and that is a good thing for us fight fans. Back to regular HBO for him and that is a great thing. Now I just need to resubscribe to HBO.

I love watching GGG fight but the higher jumped the gun on this. If they truly want GGG to be a PPV star he needs way more tv time. They need to get him on late night tv (ala pacquiao and jimmy kimmel). Get him involved with advertising and just flood the people with GGG. His issue is his name and where he comes from. Regular Americans don't know him and they need to put him front and center so they can see who he is. Because if they are just banking on putting him on HBO and expecting that will parlay into PPV status then they are wrong. They mainly need to step up the marketing 100 fold for GGG if they want him to be an American star.

I think he should also officially change his name to Triple G. Be creative with marketing him.

Remember when Lance Whitaker changed his name to Goofy Whitaker as a marketing ploy when he started making noise in the heavyweight division.

So 4G: Goofi Golovkin?

[Larry the boss]

Lol now its "who's this glaser?"

exactly..i dont give a damn about the numbers..im just busting balls,but balls here and its hilarious