Comments Thread For: Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev PPV Show Barely Cracked 160K Buys

[jjsmyth87]

Even after paying purses and expenses this was a profitable fight, not a home run but profitable

[Mitchell Kane]

Not surprised, if true.

November was a loaded PPV month...

Pac-Vargas
UFC McGregor-Alvarez
WWE Golberg-Lesnar

[SteveM]

Why would Ward be embarrassed? He's proven his mettle in the ring on multiple occasions. Ward and Kov don't promote, Roc Nation and Main Events need to come up with a plan B.....

I don't think he embarrasses easily so maybe not. But people will jump on him, and rightly so, if he declines a rematch. Much better from a saving-face point of view for the promoter to say it isn't viable.
But we don't know if that is the case - maybe ROC Nation will be happy to pay him another 5 million. I don't see that but who knows.

[icha]

people need to understand that just because the entire boxing world claims for a fight doesnt mean casuals will actually care, i wasnt expecting 200k for this fight, why is anyone surprissed with those numbers?? a fight itself can increase ppvs but you have to have at least 1 big name...

[Strive 4 Truth]

And boxing slowly continues to swirl down the toilet. To throw salt on the wound, the outcome of the fight wasnt correct either. Boxing is in a bad place folks. With all the pansy fighters and weak promoters sprinkled with corruption, it gonna take some real work to piece this sport back together.

[Strive 4 Truth]

Even after paying purses and expenses this was a profitable fight, not a home run but profitable

For who? Ward was guarantee five mil. Kovelev got two plus ppv buys.

[ShoulderRoll]

Hey, that's still more than 97k.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Not surprised, if true.

November was a loaded PPV month...

WWE Golberg-Lesnar

I'm sure $9.99 wasn't hurting people's wallets.

YIKES. I expected much better. This sucks - one of the best fights in the sport can't get decent viewership.

And yeah, if it's 170k buys then it's a huge financial loss for the promoters.

Especially since Pacquiao/Bradley 3 - you know, that fight "nobody asked for" - did three times that.

And no, that's not all Pacquiao. Pacquiao/Vargas did twice the buy of Ward/Kovalev. VARGAS!

Meanwhile, Kell Brook brought in nearly a million fighting Lil G.

Even Glass Khan beat Ward/Kovalev PPV buys 2x after getting put to sleep by Canelo and Khan is absolutely no draw in the US.

Goes to show what people have been saying. Andre Ward, Sergey Kovalev...They're nobodies in today's boxing. Only boxing hardcore know who either of them are.

[tostao]

In the world of modern technology vs bad economy one has to be totally illeterate to buy PPV

[Flash13]

Even after paying purses and expenses this was a profitable fight, not a home run but profitable

Maybe for main events...but not for roc nation they lost at least I mean mininum 2m.

When looking it all over they've must be at least 4m in the hole on andre ward. Wow...