Upcoming PPV schedule

[Pigeons]

Has he ever specified he is targeting Kovalev? He went up to 175 because A) it's getting more difficult for him to make 168 and b) it helps him maintain the illusion that he is chasing someone of note.

Before the Pascal rematch, as Ward was on as analyst or whatever, he was asked twice, at least by Lampley about the Kovalev fight. Ward did not, at any point mention the fight but rather that "that's what we're aiming for"...and that he is likely to have two fights before that, one of them being the Barrera match up.

Ward career of late, for someone who is supposed to be p4p no.1 has been a joke.

You're right, Ward has no interest in ever fighting Kovalev. He just signed a contract to fight him and HBO is targeting Nov. 19. If Ward were serious about fighting Kovalev, he never would have signed a contract to fight him.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/p...-cottos-return

[Motorcity Cobra]

There are 8 months left in the year and there are already 4 pay-per-views scheduled. I was updating the calendar today and started to put these pieces together. Let's look at the rest of the year.
April 9 Pacquiao-Bradley III

Okay so naturally this is on PPV. Manny Pacquiao is the currently the biggest star in boxing. This one deserves the price tag (especially given the undercard.)
May 7 Canelo-Khan

Canelo inherits the May and September Mayweather days because... he's Mexican and they are Mexican holidays. Despite the mismatch, it's two big names and it's going to be entertaining for about 5 rounds. Worth it.
June 18 Cotto-TBA (Kirkland)

This is where things start to get a little dicey. Cotto is coming off a loss. I'm not sure if Kirkland is speaking in coherent sentences yet. This card will NOT feature Felix Verdejo (who has his own headlining HBO card coming the following week.) I don't imagine this one doing well.
July 23 Crawford-TBA (likely Postol)

I'm willing to pay for this one. The 1 and 2 super lightweights fighting is fine by me. I don't care what the undercard is.
This is what is proposed thus far, but let's project the rest of the year.
August

Nothing. This is typically the time of the year StubHub has it's annual ritualistic blood bath fight of the year contender on some undercard.
September 10 or 17 Canelo-Lemieux

Ah, where did Lemieux come from? Let's first say that there's no way Canelo isn't fighting on PPV anymore until he loses. Next, Lemieux's fight with James De La Rosa was cancelled this past weekend. Why? Weight? Sure. Maybe. But why is that immediately we hear he's being worked into the Canelo-Khan undercard? An undercard that only has 2 fights currently scheduled. My guess is that it will be a set-up fight to sell Canelo-Lemieux. That Golovkin fight ain't coming till next year at the earliest. This is a worst case scenario. The best case scenario is that this is the Golovkin fight, but it seems pretty unlikely.
Late October Golovkin-Saunders

This is going to be a tough sell, but I think they justify it by saying it's a legitimate unification fight between two fighters who avoid nobody. Saunders has the highlights of dropping Lee around and Golovkin is Golovkin.
November Bradley-Vargas II (small percentage it's Pacquiao-Vargas)

Jessie Vargas is coming off the biggest win of his career and he's ready for a rematch with Bradley. Now, you may be asking how do they put Bradley in a PPV coming off a loss? He ain't losing. Either he wins this fairly or Bob Arum smile he wins this fairly.
December Cotto-TBA (Probably Andy Lee)

This is assuming that they don't make Cotto-Lee in June (which I think is far smarter.) Either way, Cotto's December fight probably makes it to PPV coming off of a nice win over James Kirkland in June.
So it looks like we have a PPV in 7 or the next 8 months. If we average the price out to $60 bucks for each one, it adds up to $420 for the rest of the year. That's a steep price.
What do you think of this tentative and projected schedule?
Are you paying for all of them?

Do you like pay-per-view? I hope the answer is yes. A look at the confirmed, tentative, and likely pay-per-view schedule for the rest of the year. self.Boxing
submitted 8 hours ago by noirargent
There are 8 months left in the year and there are already 4 pay-per-views scheduled. I was updating the calendar today and started to put these pieces together. Let's look at the rest of the year.
April 9 Pacquiao-Bradley III

Okay so naturally this is on PPV. Manny Pacquiao is the currently the biggest star in boxing. This one deserves the price tag (especially given the undercard.)
May 7 Canelo-Khan

Canelo inherits the May and September Mayweather days because... he's Mexican and they are Mexican holidays. Despite the mismatch, it's two big names and it's going to be entertaining for about 5 rounds. Worth it.
June 18 Cotto-TBA (Kirkland)

This is where things start to get a little dicey. Cotto is coming off a loss. I'm not sure if Kirkland is speaking in coherent sentences yet. This card will NOT feature Felix Verdejo (who has his own headlining HBO card coming the following week.) I don't imagine this one doing well.
July 23 Crawford-TBA (likely Postol)

I'm willing to pay for this one. The 1 and 2 super lightweights fighting is fine by me. I don't care what the undercard is.
This is what is proposed thus far, but let's project the rest of the year.
August

Nothing. This is typically the time of the year StubHub has it's annual ritualistic blood bath fight of the year contender on some undercard.
September 10 or 17 Canelo-Lemieux

Ah, where did Lemieux come from? Let's first say that there's no way Canelo isn't fighting on PPV anymore until he loses. Next, Lemieux's fight with James De La Rosa was cancelled this past weekend. Why? Weight? Sure. Maybe. But why is that immediately we hear he's being worked into the Canelo-Khan undercard? An undercard that only has 2 fights currently scheduled. My guess is that it will be a set-up fight to sell Canelo-Lemieux. That Golovkin fight ain't coming till next year at the earliest. This is a worst case scenario. The best case scenario is that this is the Golovkin fight, but it seems pretty unlikely.
Late October Golovkin-Saunders

This is going to be a tough sell, but I think they justify it by saying it's a legitimate unification fight between two fighters who avoid nobody. Saunders has the highlights of dropping Lee around and Golovkin is Golovkin.
November Bradley-Vargas II (small percentage it's Pacquiao-Vargas)

Jessie Vargas is coming off the biggest win of his career and he's ready for a rematch with Bradley. Now, you may be asking how do they put Bradley in a PPV coming off a loss? He ain't losing. Either he wins this fairly or Bob Arum smile he wins this fairly.
December Cotto-TBA (Probably Andy Lee)

This is assuming that they don't make Cotto-Lee in June (which I think is far smarter.) Either way, Cotto's December fight probably makes it to PPV coming off of a nice win over James Kirkland in June.
So it looks like we have a PPV in 7 or the next 8 months. If we average the price out to $60 bucks for each one, it adds up to $420 for the rest of the year. That's a steep price.
What do you think of this tentative and projected schedule?
Are you paying for all of them?

[JJRod]

I'm willing to pay for most.
Wasn't going to pay for Pac/Bradley but the undercard is what I'm really paying for.

Alvarez/Khan to me is must watch PPV. Guarantee fireworks and it's too big names. I seriously don't understand why people would complain. Boxing is after all entertainment.

Same for a potential Cotto/Kirkland fight. I'd be willing to pay. Hopefully the PPV isn't 70 bucks for that one, maybe 50.

Not willing to pay for a Canelo September PPV that isn't GGG though.
If it's Lemieux, I aint buying.

[aldo5408]

I'm willing to pay for most.
Wasn't going to pay for Pac/Bradley but the undercard is what I'm really paying for.

Alvarez/Khan to me is must watch PPV. Guarantee fireworks and it's too big names. I seriously don't understand why people would complain. Boxing is after all entertainment.

Same for a potential Cotto/Kirkland fight. I'd be willing to pay. Hopefully the PPV isn't 70 bucks for that one, maybe 50.

Not willing to pay for a Canelo September PPV that isn't GGG though.
If it's Lemieux, I aint buying.

What if Canelo fights one of those 154 champs like liam Smith

[big_james10]

There are 8 months left in the year and there are already 4 pay-per-views scheduled. I was updating the calendar today and started to put these pieces together. Let's look at the rest of the year.
April 9 Pacquiao-Bradley III

Okay so naturally this is on PPV. Manny Pacquiao is the currently the biggest star in boxing. This one deserves the price tag (especially given the undercard.)
May 7 Canelo-Khan

Canelo inherits the May and September Mayweather days because... he's Mexican and they are Mexican holidays. Despite the mismatch, it's two big names and it's going to be entertaining for about 5 rounds. Worth it.
June 18 Cotto-TBA (Kirkland)

This is where things start to get a little dicey. Cotto is coming off a loss. I'm not sure if Kirkland is speaking in coherent sentences yet. This card will NOT feature Felix Verdejo (who has his own headlining HBO card coming the following week.) I don't imagine this one doing well.
July 23 Crawford-TBA (likely Postol)

I'm willing to pay for this one. The 1 and 2 super lightweights fighting is fine by me. I don't care what the undercard is.
This is what is proposed thus far, but let's project the rest of the year.
August

Nothing. This is typically the time of the year StubHub has it's annual ritualistic blood bath fight of the year contender on some undercard.
September 10 or 17 Canelo-Lemieux

Ah, where did Lemieux come from? Let's first say that there's no way Canelo isn't fighting on PPV anymore until he loses. Next, Lemieux's fight with James De La Rosa was cancelled this past weekend. Why? Weight? Sure. Maybe. But why is that immediately we hear he's being worked into the Canelo-Khan undercard? An undercard that only has 2 fights currently scheduled. My guess is that it will be a set-up fight to sell Canelo-Lemieux. That Golovkin fight ain't coming till next year at the earliest. This is a worst case scenario. The best case scenario is that this is the Golovkin fight, but it seems pretty unlikely.
Late October Golovkin-Saunders

This is going to be a tough sell, but I think they justify it by saying it's a legitimate unification fight between two fighters who avoid nobody. Saunders has the highlights of dropping Lee around and Golovkin is Golovkin.
November Bradley-Vargas II (small percentage it's Pacquiao-Vargas)

Jessie Vargas is coming off the biggest win of his career and he's ready for a rematch with Bradley. Now, you may be asking how do they put Bradley in a PPV coming off a loss? He ain't losing. Either he wins this fairly or Bob Arum smile he wins this fairly.
December Cotto-TBA (Probably Andy Lee)

This is assuming that they don't make Cotto-Lee in June (which I think is far smarter.) Either way, Cotto's December fight probably makes it to PPV coming off of a nice win over James Kirkland in June.
So it looks like we have a PPV in 7 or the next 8 months. If we average the price out to $60 bucks for each one, it adds up to $420 for the rest of the year. That's a steep price.
What do you think of this tentative and projected schedule?
Are you paying for all of them?

I am not willing to pay for any of them because none of them are worth the price and only one (Pacquaio/Bradley) is PPV worthy. By this time next year, I will probably stop watching boxing altogether because every b-level fight will be on PPV.

[JJRod]

What if Canelo fights one of those 154 champs like liam Smith

Nope not buying. Nelo said after the Cotto fight he had no problem what so ever fighting GGG. I understand the stay busy cash fight with Khan. He'll I'm gonna buy that fight. But after that I don't want to pay unless it's GGG.

[Eff Pandas]

HBO going PPV heavy plays right into Haymon's hands. At a time when he's trying to lower the cost of being a boxing fan, HBO is trying to raise it.

The cost of following Haymon Boxing and the fights you get vs the cost of following HBO Boxing and the fights you get . . . it's going to be no comparison and we will continue to see more and more of a shift in Haymon's favor.

For the four month period of April, May, June and July, it would cost $300 to watch HBO's fights ($240 PPV, $60 HBO) and $50 ($0 FOX/NBC/SPIKE, $50 SHO) to watch Haymon's fights. Let's chat in August and see which side ended up giving fight fans the best value.

I was just thinking about HBO vs Showtime the last few days & I think I like Showtime's confirmed schedule more than HBO's confirmed schedule for the first time in a long time. The potential fights unconfirmed or expected later in the year are better for HBO I feel doe.

Lotsa HBO PPV for sure which I think is gonna be a problem for them. HBO has done a great job hyping GGG over the last several years, but when they tried flipping him over to PPV a lil early it didn't go so well. I expect a similar outcome for Crawford.

[STAX ON DECK]

these ppv are garb tho,,

my mexican homies r throwing a street party for canlelo vs khan so ill watch that one for sure but braedely vs pac is meh and i already kno the pacman is gonna clown bredley

and bud is my boy but im not buying him on ppv against the postman ,and kirkland is shot to peices and not worthy of ppv for cotton

[BennyBlanco]

I am not willing to pay for any of them because none of them are worth the price and only one (Pacquaio/Bradley) is PPV worthy. By this time next year, I will probably stop watching boxing altogether because every b-level fight will be on PPV.

Agree completely.

• Pac-Bradley III is meh...not terrible, but certainly not a fight anyone (other than Bradley) was asking for. Not gonna pay for it, but I'll find somewhere to watch.

• Canelo-Khan is a joke; HBO & promoters are hoping people get fooled by a two "names" and don't realize the fight is a mismatch.

• Cotto-Kirkland is another joke, at least as a PPV. Kirkland has done nothing to earn another big fight, and there's little to suggest he is able to perform at the top levels of the sport.

• Crawford-Postol is a good fight but nowhere near PPV-worthy. It's about time Crawford fought someone his own size, so I'm curious...but PPV? NFW.

• Canelo-Golovkin? No way it happens this year, so not worth discussing.

• Kovalev-Ward? No way it happens this year, so not worth discussing.

• Canelo-Lemieux? Ugh. Lemieux shouldn't be back on PPV until he beats a top-tier opponent.

• A second Cotto PPV in 2016? Hope not. Please no.

On the HBO front, it looks like 2016 is a disaster: hardly any good fights on HBO - only six fights in the first half of the year, all but one are mismatches - and a bunch of PPV fights that don't deserve to be on PPV.

Time to drop my HBO subscription.

[original zero]

I was just thinking about HBO vs Showtime the last few days & I think I like Showtime's confirmed schedule more than HBO's confirmed schedule for the first time in a long time. The potential fights unconfirmed or expected later in the year are better for HBO I feel doe.

Lotsa HBO PPV for sure which I think is gonna be a problem for them. HBO has done a great job hyping GGG over the last several years, but when they tried flipping him over to PPV a lil early it didn't go so well. I expect a similar outcome for Crawford.

And you can't just look at the HBO schedule vs the SHO schedule. Because really, it's HBO vs SHO/FOX/CBS/NBC/ESPN/FS1/Spike/etc.

If Haymon and his partners can edge HBO out of the business eventually, or greatly marginalize them, it would be a great thing for boxing fans. Being a boxing fan would be less expensive than it's been in decades and most if not all of the top fights would be able to be made.