Any word of the Canelo-Khan ppv numbers?

[Eff Pandas]

It'll be a long time before PBC is in a situation where they have to go to PPV, which is how things should be, tbh.

Still, people are underestimating the scope of money in play; the UFC got $100m put on what's amounted to 30 shows per year and TUF, yet still kept 10-12 PPVs for themselves. Fox was unlikely to get McGregor or Ronda fighting on their channel, but imagine what they would've been ready to front for Cormier-Gustafson, Velasquez-Verdum or even Johnson-Horiguchi.

Haymon's PBC is going to give a broadcaster (likely Showtime/CBS) the opportunity to pick up most of the meaningful fights in boxing, with the risk of 1-3 of those shows being worth too much to be put on their channel instead of PPV.

Yea I'm basically in agreement with most of what you're saying & I'm not saying that there isn't money with network TV. I'm just saying there is more money in PPV for those certain select fights. And I can't see PPV going anywhere cuz of that money being available in PPV that isn't duplicated elsewhere.

The thing I might disagree with is that PBC might wanna move to PPV for their biggest fights in the very near future to maximize their earnings. At least until they alter the marketplace more from its PPV>Premium Cable>Network TV & Basic Cable money making power structure that boxing seems to follow.

[about.thousands]

@NashvilleBoxing @boxing @steveucnlive The very vague numbers I've heard were "better than 300k, not quite 400k."

— Jake Donovan (@JakeNDaBox_v2) May 11, 2016

[Pain~Lucy]

A FLOP! that means Canelo vs GGG will be made lmao enough with this mismatch and marinating BS

[MrRolltide91]

Isn't verified, but I'm hearing #CaneloKhan did 1.35M to 1.45M buys! Will get an accurate number this sat. #boxing #HboBoxing

— Rick Glaser (@RickGlaser1) May 11, 2016

but I dont know how trustworthy this dude is.

Why did the tweet get deleted?

[Scipio2009]

Yea I'm basically in agreement with most of what you're saying & I'm not saying that there isn't money with network TV. I'm just saying there is more money in PPV for those certain select fights. And I can't see PPV going anywhere cuz of that money being available in PPV that isn't duplicated elsewhere.

The thing I might disagree with is that PBC might wanna move to PPV for their biggest fights in the very near future to maximize their earnings. At least until they alter the marketplace more from its PPV>Premium Cable>Network TV & Basic Cable money making power structure that boxing seems to follow.

The emphasis is on certain fights; Haymon/PBC/Showtime/etc were confident enough to bid $5m for Deontay Wilder's biggest fight yet, and that's likely the ceiling for regular Showtime cards (we still need to see what Showtime/CBS was willing to lay out for Thurman-Porter, tbh).

Across the entire boxing world, how many fighters are earning $5m per fight? With Mayweather/Pacquiao/Cotto/Klitschko on their way out, the only people in that conversation are Saul Alvarez (subisidzed by the Mexican TV deal) and Anthony Joshua (thanks to Sky Box Office). Beyond that, if given $5m to work with, how many fights out there can you not make?

For this next phase of boxing, PPV isn't really the 'golden goose' for Haymon (at least in the short run); locking in that first $1b content deal is. With the potential for sponsorship opportunity on terrestrial TV, the Haymon model maybe the way forward.

[MrRolltide91]

For what it's worth.....

https://www.facebook.com/rick.glaser.5

If you believe this you'd also have to believe the 97k number his low number for Berto-Mayweather and his low numbers for Pacquioa-Bradley

Of the numbers are true, I doubt canelo vs ggg does over 1 million ppv buys

[OnePunch]

Why did the tweet get deleted?

because it was a hoax

[MrRolltide91]

because it was a hoax

Ok.........

[mathed]

Fight prolly did like 200K, no one wanted to pay for that scrub fight.

[-Kev-]

Flopul "Flopelo" Floparez vs Gefloppy "Triple Flop" Flopovkin should now be made

Their last PPV's both flopped, next logical fight is versus each other