Showtime Boxing NEEDS a PPV fight for 2016....

[El Tejano]

IMO

Gary Russell vs Leo Santa Cruz with a stacked undercard would make a great PPV card way better than HBO's PPVs...

[Larry the boss]

No,No..boxing needs less ppv's period...what you just mentioned is by far not a ppv fight period

[Dana White Sr]

man stop it!

for years, people in the sport of boxing have been complaining about too many ppvs and the insignificance of them unless it's a big fight .


and now you saying showtime NEEDS to do a ppv :lol: get outta here with that bullshyt! some of you so called boxing fan say the ******est shyt.

russell vs cruz wouldn't even do 150K maybe even 100K.

[Redd Foxx]

russell vs cruz wouldn't even do 150K maybe even 100K.

If Golovkin does 100k v Lemieux, how does Santa (who is barely stepping out of undercard status) vs Russel (who no one cares about) do even half of that?
Generally, I agree with what you're saying though. We need fewer PPVs, esp PPVS that no one cares about.

I think PPV is acceptable when it's a once a year thing, reserved for the "must see" fights.

[danceswithfire]

lol, they better sell that for $1.99 if they want to reach the 50k mark

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

Only Big Fights should be PPV.

PPV has its place.

[Scipio2009]

Jacobs-Golovkin, Fury-Wilder, and Stevenson-Kovalev are the only fights that Showtime should be considered for PPV in 2016 (you can add to that a potential Thurman-Porter winner vs Brook-Garcia winner PPV, and a PPV if Floyd chooses to come back).

If none of those fights manifest themselves, there's no need to simply do a PPV for the sake of doing a PPV. (Especially after Showtime's share on the Floyd deal left them with no money loss on the deal, ~$80m in HD fees, and likely another $40m off of their share of the actual PPV).

Let that sink in; simply rolling the Floyd revenues exclusively into boxing content comfortably finances Showtime's boxing schedule for four years. (with any money made during that period rolled over into subsequent years)

[HanzGruber]

No they don't. HBO is ruining ppvs

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I don't mind PPv if it's a stacked card..

Santa Cruz-russel
Wilder-povetkin
Spence-ghost
Beterbiev-TBA


I would buy that in a heart beat

[CaneloMaidana]

HBO only made like 1.2 million on Manny ppv before expenses. Not super important to have ppv.