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I just don't see any matchup currently doing over a 1.5 million sales.
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Very few matchups have done that much. Very few matchups have done a million. What Floyd and Manny were able to accomplish, with almost every PPV being 800k and above, is not normal.
The model isn't dead but putting Postol-Craword and Ward-Kovalev and GGG-Lemieux on PPV is trying to kill it.
Golovkin vs. Canelo. and Wilder vs. Fury or Joshua are the only PPV worthy fights out there. -
Nah, people are just used to PPV success of Floyd and Pac. The purses of Canelo/Khan and Pac/BradleyIII are not sustainable in a current environment. Those events were financial flops. The ~20m+ purses will be saved for bonafide superstar showdowns, with the other PPV events paying $10-15M max.
Look at the Crawford/Postol - they mentioned that it needs 75k buys to break even. That's 75k*$50 = 3.7m of revenue, HBO takes half = 1.9m left + 2m gate = 3.9m for promoters, fighters, fees and other expense. Thus the purses are probably 1.5m TC / 1m Postol guaranteed, with maybe % of PPV revenue over 100k buys or something.
That's enough to keep everyone happy - HBO makes money, fighteers make money and promoters make money.Comment
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