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

[Laypipe]

At least have the decency to put on a good undercard.....that would entice someone who's undecided.

[pacmanis1]

Boxings in a bad place right now. Fights rarely get put together, when they do they're mismatches, and when they do actually get it right and make a good fight like Ward/Kov or Jacobs/GGG I gotta pay even more on top of my HBO and SHO subscriptions. It's just making it easy for casuals to tune out from the sport all together.

[killakali]

thurman vs garcia would sell 200k easy...... You clearly dont know **** about boxing...... Both of them have the highest watched fights on tv the past 2 years....

nah. Look at garcia's numbers on spike in november. lololol. #GayForPBC2016 is Jason Shaw. Keep your kneedpads ready so you can keep gargling those PBC shlongs marica.

[Dr.Cool]

HBO's downfall began when Mayweather left and they told Haymon to get lost. Then Greenburg resigned or got fired. Then what used to be undercard fights with one elite fighter against an opponent became the main event and fights like GGG-Lemieux and Canelo-Smith and Cotto-Kirkland all became PPVs. HBO has quit investing the necessary amounts to stage two elite fighters against each other on their regular channel. Not saying Haymon isn't a crook who stages even bigger mismatches, but at least he found some rich idiots to pay for it so we didn't have to spend $65 to see Thurman-Porter.

Lampley is part of the problem, hyping up all these fights and ridiculing any Haymon fighter and blatantly biased announcing. While Showtime is staging some good fights i.e. Charlo-Williams, Degale-Jack, these are fights we were led to believe would be on network tv when PBC started. They are all in it to make as much money as they can. And the way to do that is make every fight PPV. It has killed boxing and continues to prevent boxing from making a comeback.

[Bullrider]

PPV is the only solution to satisfy greedy fighters these days. Otherwise fights won't happen. Ward/Kovalev, Crawford/Postol, etc. Sad part is they're never worth the price fans pay. All these greedy fighters do is clinch, hug, run, give up...cash in...

[JASON SHAW]

nah. Look at garcia's numbers on spike in november. Lololol. #gayforpbc2016 is jason shaw. Keep your kneedpads ready so you can keep gargling those pbc shlongs marica.

what about garcia on fox 3 million viewers with an average of 2.5...... Keep sucking off your ****** master oscarina de la ****.... You are an expert you dont need knee pads

[ShoulderRoll]

Lampley is critical of the PPV model yet doesn't support the free tv model of PBC.

What model does he advocate then?

[TheCell8]

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.

It is when you pay one guy $1.3M and the other $675K... On a reported $25M budget. If that wasn't on PPV, their salaries would be like 500K and 100K for Postol.

The budget cuts play a huge role.

[Motorcity Cobra]

It is when you pay one guy $1.3M and the other $675K... On a reported $25M budget. If that wasn't on PPV, their salaries would be like 500K and 100K for Postol.

The budget cuts play a huge role.

So explain this

#CrawfordMolina Purses
Crawford 1.5m
Molina 400k
(note: Molina came in overweight so he's giving up a portion of that purse).#boxing

— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) December 10, 2016

[TheCell8]

So explain this

#CrawfordMolina Purses
Crawford 1.5m
Molina 400k
(note: Molina came in overweight so he's giving up a portion of that purse).#boxing

— Jed I. Goodman (@jedigoodman) December 10, 2016

That's after Canelo cancelled his December fight...