Who do all PPV cards need to be $70?

[Robbie Barrett]

How and when did they decide that PPVs should be $70 frigging bucks??

It's like they went into the meeting room and asked themselves what is the most absurd number that they can get away with

$70 bucks for a 4 hour card, in which you're lucky if 2 of the fights are even worth watching, is f**king insane

Didn't it start with Mayweather-Canelo?

[Mike D]

Didn't it start with Mayweather-Canelo?

What was it before that, though? For the longest I remember it being at minimum fifty dollars, and if I recall correctly it went up to $60 and now to $70. Before you know it these motherf**king PPVs will be $80.

[Mike D]

I mean **** even $50 is absurd

I get it (I guess) if it was $50 for an actual super fight, but for the majority of the trash PPVs that get put out, even $50 is still way too high

[DinoCop]

70 dollars? And I think you guys get paid 1000 at least a month. Too much for a low ro mid class's sport.

[anonymous2.0]

What was it before that, though? For the longest I remember it being at minimum fifty dollars, and if I recall correctly it went up to $60 and now to $70. Before you know it these motherf**king PPVs will be $80.

I feel as if they deliberately had the two prices - 50 for regular and 60 for HD - and then slowly slid the regular price up to 60 and made the HD 70.

As boxing fans compared to other sports fans, our situation is less than ideal

[Mike D]

I feel as if they deliberately had the two prices - 50 for regular and 60 for HD - and then slowly slid the regular price up to 60 and made the HD 70.

Yeah it did feel that way.

[-Kev-]

It ****ing sucks lol. I guess it's to adjust for inflation and the growing costs of PPV production and setting up a big boxing match. It sucks but I checked the buying power of $50 in 1995 (just picked a random 90s year) and says it's $79.99. So looking at that, HBO/promoters can still raise the price for HD $10 more dollars and then they will be matching the 1990s $50 a PPV if they want to match inflation

When adjusted for inflation, we are paying what would've been $44.50 in 1995 as far as the $70 price tag goes. If PPV's were $50 today, that would equal $31.65 in 1995

[Mike D]

I mean I ain't rich, but I can afford them and do end up getting the vast majority of PPVs, but f**k, man. Beyond the money it's the damn principle.

As we all know most of the undercards are straight trash, of course I watch every second because first off I love the sport, and second to get my "money's worth", but like 80% of the undercard match ups are ESPN Friday Night Fights level ****. Or worse.

So basically for all intents and purposes we are paying $70 to see an hour worth of a fight that we actually want to see...and that's if it lasts that long.