Crawford vs Postal is going to bomb

[Mr.Fantastic]

Fking HBO couldn't pony up the money for this to be on their regular channel now loads of people are gonna miss a hell of a fight. Who the heck is gonna order this besides the hardest of hardcore fans? Boxing is a fking train wreck... Politics,Ducking,mismatches,and cheap networks killing the sport

Good!! They shouldn't be paying millions and millions of dollars for fights. It's the boxers and the promoters that are asking for a lot these days.

[BM dnobagaV]

What??? i was agreeing with you..it will bomb and will do between 97k-150k..thats a bomb right?

First PPV? It's pretty great...
Floyd/Manny blew, didn't they?

[Eff Pandas]

Boxing fans don't know **** about business.

People say this type of dumb **** all the time for any PPV they don't see getting 500k or sometimes even 1M PPV buys. But the reality is that if you incentive the fighters purses via a reasonable guaranteed + points on buys and frugally market the fight according to your expectations of what the fight can do in revenue its probably not so hard to break even or make a profit on a lower level PPV like Crawford vs Postol. I doubt enough money is going to be spent on Crawford vs Postol for it to bomb.

When you really run into trouble with PPV's is when you have a high guaranteed purse & the fight doesn't do good PPV numbers. Manny vs Tim III would be the perfect example & I believe the rumor is (via Steve Kim, who's a TR right hand man) Bob lost $10M on that fight due to the disastrous combo of a high guarantee for Manny + low PPV numbers.

[Beercules]

andre ward's purse vs alexander brand: 2 million dollars. you can thank droopy

That droopy son of a ***** fucked everything up.

[Jsmooth9876]

Good!! They shouldn't be paying millions and millions of dollars for fights. It's the boxers and the promoters that are asking for a lot these days.

Yeah now we gotta pay $50 for a fight that we used to get for our regular subscription to HBO... They should have put Ward-Brand on PPV and paid for Crawford-Postal lol...

[Beercules]

I ordered the fight.

[Jsmooth9876]

Boxing fans don't know **** about business.

People say this type of dumb **** all the time for any PPV they don't see getting 500k or sometimes even 1M PPV buys. But the reality is that if you incentive the fighters purses via a reasonable guaranteed + points on buys and frugally market the fight according to your expectations of what the fight can do in revenue its probably not so hard to break even or make a profit on a lower level PPV like Crawford vs Postol. I doubt enough money is going to be spent on Crawford vs Postol for it to bomb.

When you really run into trouble with PPV's is when you have a high guaranteed purse & the fight doesn't do good PPV numbers. Manny vs Tim III would be the perfect example & I believe the rumor is (via Steve Kim, who's a TR right hand man) Bob lost $10M on that fight due to the disastrous combo of a high guarantee for Manny + low PPV numbers.

500-1 mill? I'm talking like 50,000 buys....

[soul_survivor]

Fking HBO couldn't pony up the money for this to be on their regular channel now loads of people are gonna miss a hell of a fight. Who the heck is gonna order this besides the hardest of hardcore fans? Boxing is a fking train wreck... Politics,Ducking,mismatches,and cheap networks killing the sport

That's the problem since the days of Roy Jones.

[Mr.Fantastic]

Yeah now we gotta pay $50 for a fight that we used to get for our regular subscription to HBO... They should have put Ward-Brand on PPV and paid for Crawford-Postal lol...

I'm not paying for it. Boxers like Crawford and promoters like Arum deserve a flop if they're going to be asking tons of money. I love boxing but I'm tired of the shit it's pulling.

[j0zef]

I'm not paying for it. Boxers like Crawford and promoters like Arum deserve a flop if they're going to be asking tons of money. I love boxing but I'm tired of the shit it's pulling.

And this makes you a casual and a brainless hater.

You have clear #1 and #2 in the division, both undefeated, fighting for a unified championship.

Arum is hopking for only 75K PPVs to break even. If a fight this good can't get 100K, then the sport is ran by casuals.