Comments Thread For: Arum on Crawford-Postol: Anything Over 100K Buys, I'd Be Happy

[Bronx2245]

True, but I want to see things change for the better across the board.

I do too, but free is better for me! I think if HBO can work with Haymon, then things would be better across the board! I want to see Crawford vs. Broner, GGG vs. Jacobs, Spence Jr. vs. Anybody, etc.

[ManOnTheMoon]

This is basically a situation where the promoter is willing to take a L to build a fighter as a ppv headliner or a star long term. Plus it gives them a feel for where Crawford is right now as far as popularity

[Cinci Champ]

such a shame hbo's new way of doing things seems like any competitive fight will be ppv. unless its a ggg vs wade type deal where one fighter can get paid next to nothing it looks like hbo will do all ppv when there are 2 name fighters. such a shame hbo has come to this

[Mitchell Kane]

Based on the rumored undercard I might be skipping this one. I like Postol vs Crawford but I'm not paying $50 to watch Valdez and Ramirez fight tuneups.

Give me something like the PAC vs Bradley undercard and I'll gladly hand out me money.

Edit: actually the Valdez fight looks solid. One more solid fight and I'm in.

I actually this fight card is pretty solid, and overall, I think it's better than the Pac-Bradley or Canelo-Khan ppv cards.

Crawford-Postol is a good main event. The Ramirez opponent looks like a bit of a light touch (though I haven't watch any of his fights yet), but Valdez-Rueda is pretty good and Benavidez-Santana isn't a bad opener.

$50 is a little higher than I'd like, but I'll probably end up getting this one.

Arum said unbeaten Valdez (20-0, 17 KOs) will fight unbeaten Matias Rueda (26-0, 23 KOs) for the WBO featherweight belt vacated by Vasyl Lomachenko, and Gilberto Ramirez (34-0, 24 KOs) will meet Germany’s Dominik Britsch (32-2-1, 11 KOs) for the WBO super-middleweight belt. Also, unbeaten Phoenix welterweight Jose Benanvidez (24-0, 16 KOs) will meet Santa Barbara’s Francisco Santana (24-4-1, 12 KOs) in a bout scheduled for 10 rounds.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-boxing-crawford-postol-pay-per-view-20160510-story.html

[A.K]

I say it does 80k no one outside of die hard boxing fans knows postal and crawford is still building his brand . With that being said should be a good fight.

[Mitchell Kane]

I am going to purchase it but $49.99 HD is too much IMO. But I guess Arum knows only diehards will buy it.

Best part was reading that arum expects HBO to increase the budget for boxing next year.

Yeah, it's encouraging to see see that regarding HBO's budget.

[SilverMiles]

I actually this fight card is pretty solid, and overall, I think it's better than the Pac-Bradley or Canelo-Khan ppv cards.

Crawford-Postol is a good main event. The Ramirez opponent looks like a bit of a light touch (though I haven't watch any of his fights yet), but Valdez-Rueda is pretty good and Benavidez-Santana isn't a bad opener.

$50 is a little higher than I'd like, but I'll probably end up getting this one.



http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...510-story.html

So Benanvidez vs Santana is the 4th fight. Decent enough, Santana has upset some undefeated prospects before. A couple of the off television fights are also interesting.

I probably going to end up getting the card because the Crawford vs Postol and Valdez fights are interesting.

[hitking]

I'm a fight fan. I'm not ordering this fight. Reason being?....This should be a non-ppv fight, but because of budget restrictions they had to move it to a ppv platform.

Good fight but it doesnt excite me enough to pay $50 for.

If you're anything like me, your HBO and SHO subscriptions are strictly for boxing. So yeah, its bull**** that I get double charged the months they do fights on PPV. I don't think any fight should be on PPV. Not this one. Not Ward-Kovalev. Not even Floyd-Manny.

That said, in the boxing climate we currently live in, this is a PPV quality fight, for the reasons I named previously. And if you're financially able, there's no way a real fight fan wouldn't pay to see this fight. I apologize if I'm wrong. But I'm pretty sure you ordered GGG-Lemieux. That fight was pure, unadulterated garbage. The match-up was pure garbage. This match-up is 10× better. So if you ordered that garbage and not this. Maybe you're not a real fight fan. You're just a hardcore fan of certain fighters. And follow the sport more closely than the average casual fan to see how things line up for your favs.

[Fidel456]

On July 23rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Terence Crawford makes his debut as pay-per-view headliner, as he tries to unify his WBO 140-pound title against WBC champion Viktor Postol. It's an event where Bob Arum will have tempered expectations.

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This is going to be ppv???????????

[hitking]

This is basically a situation where the promoter is willing to take a L to build a fighter as a ppv headliner or a star long term. Plus it gives them a feel for where Crawford is right now as far as popularity

No its not. Crawford amd Postol probably want more money to fight each other than HBO is willing to guarantee. So HBO put up what they were gonna put up. And told the fighters y'all can try to make up the rest in PPV upside. Its the way its been done for a long time now. Its calmed down lately due to the lack of great match-ups. But aa recently as a decade ago, it was nothing for me to buy 5-6 PPVs a year with match-ups of this quality or better.