Comments Thread For: Lampley Critical of Pay-Per-View Model on New The Fight Game'

[Robbie Barrett]

Most of you don't understand how the PPV business side actually works! All networks have a specific budget for each boxing show. If the promoters & fighters feel the money being offered to fight on prime time TV is not worth it, the promoter can take the fight to PPV if they feel the fight could generate more money on PPV. The networks (HBO, Showtime, etc.) charges a fee to carry the PPV fight on their network. If a network decides the risk is not worth the reward as HBO did with Manny vs Vargas, they can refuse to carry the fight but the promoter can go through with the PPV as did Arum. Example, If a fight sells 300,000 at $60 = $18 million from PPV buys. Add an additional $5-12 million from the gate, another $2-5 million from sponsors. That total comes out around $25-$35 million. Now for the subtractions, fighters guaranteed fees plus PPV upside, Network fee: 7 - 10% of PPV buys, Promoters fee: 20 - 30%, Advertisement, Site fee, Promotional tour, Miscellaneous fees, etc. As you see, there's a lot to consider from all sides. The bottom line is how much money each person can make & is it worth it! When fights are placed on PPV, the promoter fronts the guaranteed purses while the networks only charge a set fee to carry the fight on PPV. When a fight is shown on prime time TV, the network fronts the guaranteed purses.

You forgot the cable providers cut which is 40-50% of the PPV

[boxingitis]

somewhat? What a joke you are..... Hbo is solely reponsible for the rip off mismatches on ppv the last few years..... Ggg vs lemeiux, canelo vs angulo, canelo vs khan, canelo vs smith, manny vs algieri, manny vs rios, manny vs bradley 2 and 3 and manny vs vargas....... Those are all hbo sponsored ppv mismatch rip off......

So how the hell is hbo only somewhat responsible??????? They are fully and singularly responsible...

Canelo vs angulo was on Showtime PPV.

[boxingitis]

You see Canelo lovers, Canelo vs Smith didnt even do 300k, yet you consider him a Global Superstar.

[nubianpiye]

Same guy that spends all his time criticising pbc one of the few free to air boxing promoters? Right...

[sicko]

Because boxing is trying to maintain and use a old format that doesn't work for them anymore. How the *** is all the Cord Cutters and people going to strictly Streaming Service suppose to ***ing Order PPV's? This is question NOBODY has Answered and I think it needs to be brought up at Boxing Pressers! I don't have DirecTV no more I use Playstation VUE and I don't have NO CLUE how to order Boxing PPV's without Cable or DirecTV.

The Sport is not prepared for the future at all with with UFC they have their App setup where you can order from them direct, you can even order it at watch it on youtube. Boxing don't have NONE OF THIS setup going into the future so yes Numbers will continue to decline big time and I say GOOD that is probably the only way the sport of boxing will pick itself if the money gets low the the leeches fold and start to bow out from the sport all together. Let is Crash and Burn!

[JASON SHAW]

canelo vs angulo was on showtime ppv.

was it? I had no idea!!! Ok that makes one less for hbo

[Eff Pandas]

F#ck that's a weird ass comment by Lampley considering HBO is the PPV king. HBO executives must have finally had that meeting with HBO boxing about them getting out of the boxing business in the next 2 years to get MMA (UFC or Rizen would be my guess) on HBO to get those sexy ass younger viewers.

Been a lot of super weird **** with HBO lately. Damn near there whole upcoming schedule is PPV. Nelson was talking about he'd be happy having the same year they had last year which is one of the worst years in HBO boxing history. And now this.

[Deevel916]

The only fight that was pay per view worthy this year was Ward vs Kovalev respectfully!! The rest were watered down !!!

It was the only fight I purchased all year.

[Motorcity Cobra]

The reason that fights generally not fit for PPV are headed to PPV is because they have no choice due to the budget constraints. HBO's boxing budget continues to decrease and there seems to be no hope for the future. So in order to get fights made they have to head to PPV.

That Postol vs Crawford card wasn't expensive. Did you notice how many fights were able to be made once they cancelled the Canelo December fight?

The small budget is a tired excuse. Nelson needs to do a better job of allocating the budget.

[Mammoth]

Wait... JimLampley hits his wife?