Comments Thread For: Duva: 'Modest Aspirations' For Kovalev-Ward PPV Performance

[TudorMiron]

Screw the ppv numbers......both fighters have got to go in there Thinking The Future Is Now Type Of Mentality because even if it does low ppv numbers the word will spread like a hot knife on butter and the next time you hear Kovalevs name or Wards name even the casuals will tremble and buy their fights but if they pull a Crawford vs Postol or even worse a dud of the century type of affair then you can kiss their future goodbye....so lets hope Ward shows up to fight and not to run,dance,hug and monkey around....We all know what type of fighter Kovalev is and Ward can be that too but will Ward think "I am gonna run, dance and hug my way to see another day " or is he gonna wanna control the center of the squared circle and not run backwards and sideways???

I think that you ask way too much from Ward, Even clinching his way to an ugly UD is considered 50/50 but you want him to fight it in style... Little to no chance.

[Deletrious]

It's weird to say but you pretty much have a moral obligation to buy this if you love boxing.

[r1onnie2]

I honestly think this fight will hit the 250k to 300k mark, IMO to many true boxing fans for it not to.

[hitking]

Before the Crawford-Postol numbers were released, I thought Ward-Kovalev would do 300K easily. But now, I'm not so sure. 10-15yrs ago, Crawford-Postol does 200K buys easily. But there's a lot of fake fight fans out here pretending to be hardcore fans. So I don't have a good gage anymore.

[paulf]

So what do we think?

100k?

125k?

[Flash13]

I don't know how much the gtds are but if duva is thinking that much then my guess is way too high. A very large amount of time the promoter gtd the purses which is why I was shocked this was on ppv. I know wards team requested ppv so maybe they're on the hook for the gtds? I will just say good luck to whoever is. This is a financial disaster waiting to happen. Great amazing fight, but yeah right as a ppv.

[bluebeam]

all scratching your heads as to why it wont do good numbers. Its pretty ****ing obvious, cause one half of the match up involves the most boring fighter of the modern era. You can say im exaggerating but every other boring guy i can think of has had at least one entertaining fight, wards had none

I guess you didn't see ward vs dawson, there was nothing boring about that fight

[bluebeam]

I'm buying, as everyone here should. We complain about ****ty matches and we finally get a good one. we should jump on the PPV like white on rice.

my thoughts exactly

[GMAN SUPREME]

I guess you didn't see ward vs dawson, there was nothing boring about that fight

there was nothing exciting about ward fighting the corpse of chad dawson.

[SterlingStained]

...behind your keyboard.

yes yes,

because you talk to people the way you post on nsb.



b*tch ass hypocrite hoe.