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

[whatismyname]

Fixed it for you.

Lol , ok but Kovalev though?

[Marvlus Marv]

Well done Roc Nation. It's officially the most low key promotion for a big fight...ever. Too busy cheerleading for Hillary Clinton to focus on getting this fight sold. 'Ball' and 'dropped'.

[All in]

Someone said it's closer to 17 years (which might be true) but it's still amazing.
I believe Corrales was #5 but Mayweather was #7 when he fought him. Hatton, I don't know. Edit; looked it up and Hatton was #8 when he fought Floyd.

Thanks. Can't wait for this one. I think it's going more entertaining than most think.

[big_james10]

This is an extremely ****** blog post. Saying a man who has fought his way to the top of the boxing world does not deserve a great payday is asinine. The fight won't sell a million PPVs, but it will make enough to make a profit and I am sure it will sell more than Pacquaio/Vargas and Alvarez/Smith.

Ward has paid his dues and earned the right to make a good payday. The dumba..ss who wrote this blog post thinks that Ward should get peanuts and the promoter should take 80 percent of the money the way Arum does with his fighters.

The people who write these boxing blog posts are just as ****** as some of the people who comment on these message boards.

[big_james10]

Well done Roc Nation. It's officially the most low key promotion for a big fight...ever. Too busy cheerleading for Hillary Clinton to focus on getting this fight sold. 'Ball' and 'dropped'.

Why the hell do you care about the promotion of this fight? Either buy it or don't buy it!

[CaneloMaidana]

So who is he scared of ... Canelo, who handed over his belt when GGG was his mando, then sent an offer asking him accept a fixed fee for a fight in a years time?

Or Andre Ward ... who wanted him to sign a contract agreeing to move up to 168 when WARD was ready, but not GGG?

Or maybe Danny Jacobs ... bwahaha!

Excuses from a coward.

[CaneloMaidana]

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.

Just say he's Black you racist coward. Golovkin ran

[CaneloMaidana]

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

Of course you hated the fight, the Black guy won.

[Almighty Sosa]

I think this fight will do alright PPV wise, ive never bought a ppv without being at a fight party and ill be buying this even tho ill be watching by myself.

[-Hyperion-]

In this instance, as long as Ward doesn't keep the titles hostage if he wins, who cares....Roc Nation are the ones going in the red anyway...if it was some youngun who could keep titles and big fights from happening like Canelo while draining HBO's budget, this would be an issue...Ward is on his way out....this way we avoid HBO paying for his tune ups...no other bigger PPV fight on the horizon to invest on him...Chickenson doesn't count because he wants a 50/50 PPPV on Showtime