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That depends what Ward and Kovalev do this year to build it up. if they fought next, it might do about the same or maybe a little better on HBO PPV, Ward being american and an Olympic medal winner
But it wouldn't sell out MSG or get anywhere the record mechandise sales from GGG/Lemieux.
And it wouldn't do anywhere near as well internationally either. I watched GGG/Lemieux on Boxnation PPV in the UK. I read on ESPN that it was also PPV in Poland, Russia, Germany, and the international revenue was the highest K2 have ever got from a fight staged in the US.
Those figures were not included in the 150k HBO number. That was just the live US audience.
If Ward and Kovalev fought each other next, it would not be as big a fight as GGG/Lemieux.
But it wouldn't sell out MSG or get anywhere the record mechandise sales from GGG/Lemieux.
And it wouldn't do anywhere near as well internationally either. I watched GGG/Lemieux on Boxnation PPV in the UK. I read on ESPN that it was also PPV in Poland, Russia, Germany, and the international revenue was the highest K2 have ever got from a fight staged in the US.
Those figures were not included in the 150k HBO number. That was just the live US audience.
If Ward and Kovalev fought each other next, it would not be as big a fight as GGG/Lemieux.
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