Comments Thread For: Kovalev-Ward PPV Numbers Won't Justify Ward's $5 Million Guarantee

[Fetta]

Im buying!!!

Don't care if it makes or loses money. I only care about the fight

[Shadoww702]

Because Jay Z is a billionaire and Tom Loeffler isn't!

Loeffler has done a great job promoting GGG, with regard to raising his profile and getting him to where he is right now.

But I'm starting to think that, where GGG is right now, the waters have gotten too deep for Loeffler.

With the funds he has available, and the way boxing is in the US today, Tom doesn't seem able to do Golovkin justice and get him the big fights he needs to take his career to the next level.

The fact that GGG's biggest purse was paid by Eddie Hearn, not Loeffler, speaks for itself.

1000% agree!

But taking $10,000,000 and Ko'ing Canelo in front of probably 80,000 Fans (If in Dallas) would do WONDERS for his career.

[Shadoww702]

It's all our collective duties to buy this PPV and incentivize more good matchmaking.

You KNOW it!!! If you don't buy this fight or Go to it LIVE your NOT a REAL Boxing Fan.

This fight is for the P4P #1 TITLE!!!

[M Bison]

So Ward is getting a higher payday than Kovalev for what reason exactly?
Who has Ward beat recently? Nobodies.
What world title does Ward hold? None.
What successful PPV has Ward ever headlined? None.
So someone care to explain why this bozo is being paid more than the world champion, this is what I mean about Ward he is an absolute joke and is being treated like a superstar when quite frankly nobody has heard of him and hell nobody over in Europe is that aware of this November 19th fight yes that's right this fight is small It's not being received well perhaps it's because you're putting your PPV on after a genuine true huge PPV event in UFC 205...
I might give this one a miss whilst I don't mind Kovalev as much I refuse to support someone like Ward he and his fans are everything which is wrong with the sport of boxing and I want nothing to do with that.

[Bronx2245]

Because Jay Z is a billionaire and Tom Loeffler isn't!

Loeffler has done a great job promoting GGG, with regard to raising his profile and getting him to where he is right now.

But I'm starting to think that, where GGG is right now, the waters have gotten too deep for Loeffler.

With the funds he has available, and the way boxing is in the US today, Tom doesn't seem able to do Golovkin justice and get him the big fights he needs to take his career to the next level.

The fact that GGG's biggest purse was paid by Eddie Hearn, not Loeffler, speaks for itself.

Well that's very sad for GGG, because it seems his team is not equipped to do for GGG what TR has done for Pacquiao, or what GBP has done for Canelo, or what Haymon has done for Mayweather, or what Roc Nation has done for Ward and Cotto. Hasn't K2 done well for Klitschko? This is a honest question to you because you seem to know more than I do about fighters outside the U.S. Is K2 treating GGG the same as they do Klitschko?

[M Bison]

WOW! Signing with Roc Nation was a great move for him, they make sure he gets paid well that is for sure regardless of who he fights. WTF is he suppose to do turn it down or bring his price down and think about other fighters to be honest $5 Million is NOTHING compared to what guys was getting paid during Don King and Bob Arum Prime years as Promoters!

Yeah a week after a lot of Casuals Fight Fans will spend their money on UFC 205 I don't see that PPV doing well next week. Also the promotion by Mainevents has been WEAK! I thought the Buzz around it would be bigger but maybe things pick up next week during fight week but not Promoted well AT ALL

That's because boxing was in its prime years and had no serious other combative sports which pushed it to the edge like UFC is doing right now.
UFC 205 will make this one go unnoticed.
Did I pick that up right you don't see UFC 205 doing well asides from the fact Conor McGregor last one did 1.6million buys...
The UFC event casual fans put aside any real fight fan will see what Dana White and UFC are doing with that event it's absolutely huge it's a hardcore fight fans wet dream come true.

[_Maxi]

Competitive fights bring big money. That's what coward Golovkin doesn't get.

Yeah... like #1 vs #2 Crawford vs Postol, right??? 50k buys.. LMAO you proven wrong again

[RED REP]

Loved this;
"It’s been 19 years since two fighters ranked in the top five pound-for-pound fighters in the world, undefeated, in their prime, have gotten in the ring together to do battle. And on November 19th, you’re gonna see that again..."

17 years: Hoya V Trinidad

Also, Chico was p4p 5 just before fought Mayweather

[Lou Cipher]

Ward tried to price himself out of the Krusher fight like he did the GGG fight and they called his bluff. Ward is a 150k purse fighter. JayZ is just a moron with money like that flashy sugar daddy fool Al Haymon. They use the fear of being labeled racist to raise money, but they squander it in record time anyway and it always ends up back in the pockets of the people they are racist against. By 2020 you'll be able to catch an Uber ride from Haymon to the 1500 foldout chair hotel ballroom Ward is fighting at on the eve of another Golden Boy Promotions blockbuster arena PPV fight.

[TheCell8]

Those figures seem about right...

$60/ PPV Buy, HBO takes 10%, Duva/Main events take half, then you have to take into account the site fee, which I'm sure both Duva and RocNation split the fee, then you subtract the $5M.

This fight isn't getting anywhere near 400,000...

It'll be lucky to break 200,000.