Was the Bradley-Rios card the beginning of the end for HBO?

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Powerful stuff alt. Gotta be honest, you ran out of arguments way bac when,, surprised took you this long to resort to this kind of surrender.

Nah. You're just way too basic to make a weak argument that HBO making a WhOPPING $500k off Golovkin-Lemieux is a reason they are the premier network in boxing. LOL

You're weak and dumb.

EZ work

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Nah. You're just way too basic to make a weak argument that HBO making a WhOPPING $500k off Golovkin-Lemieux is a reason they are the premier network in boxing. LOL

You're weak and dumb.

EZ work

And there you go, you just keep helping me out. Making anything on a low risk Ppv is just gravy, way better than spending 3m for sub Fnf ratings. That's a major loss dumb****. I'm guessing you got nothing better?

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I've always read that the promoters got half the PPV split and the Cable channels and providers took the other half.

I'm surprised the number is quite that low for the cable channel, but it's still a good chunk of change for something they have no real risk in. For example, I know if a Top Rank card tanks, Top Rank the ones who eat the loss.

This is a good article, and I know that the dude who wrote this knows more than me, but it is fair to point out that this is an older article (it seems to have been written in 2001, it mentions 2 fights from that year and the average cost they use is 39.95). It wouldn't surprise me if the split has gone up since then.

Generally speaking, the cable or satellite provider gets 50% of the revenue. The distributor (InDemand) gets approximately 7.5% and the rest (42.5%) goes to the promotion/event. These numbers are approximate and may vary by event.

For the biggest boxing matches, they are usually able to negotiate a higher percentage to accommodate the percentage that goes to HBO PPV or Showtime PPV (approximately 7.5%).

Again, these percentages are approximate and vary based on how much leverage the promotion has.