Comments Thread For: DiBella: Pay-Per-View is Dying; Wilder-Joshua Not a PPV Fight

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NEW YORK If Lou DiBella's vision for a full unification fight in the heavyweight division comes to fruition, Deontay Wilder would fight Anthony Joshua in a battle of unbeatens sometime in 2018. If Alabama's Wilder and England's Joshua can continue winning, eventually own all four heavyweight titles and agree to meet to determine heavyweight supremacy, DiBella doesn't think their fight should be televised via pay-per-view in the United States. A Joshua-Wilder showdown would be a pay-per-view event in the boxing-loving United Kingdom, where such shows typically cost consumers 20 pounds (about $25).
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[betmen]

bull****! if baby joshua win his next fight, he'll be ppv star

[Uncle Rodge]

Not in the home of Boxing - the United Kingdom.

[bigjavi973]

Deontay Wilder would fight Anthony Joshua in a battle of unbeatens sometime in 2018.

[juggernaut666]

Wilder has to fight on free t.v with near meaningless opponents . Joshua hasnt even been Champion for a year . The only actual intriguing fight Wilder has been involved in is the one coming up bc its a undefeated guy who has actual movements and outsizes him and fights comfortably off the back foot as well. Joshua has wins over up and coming young talent who were called bums only after they were defeated , Wilder has fought old guys and journeyman ,the only thing both have in common is Molina who was a last option for Joshua when Klitchko took a step back.

Wilder hasnt done much over here to make him a PPV Star , Joshua would be the reason it could be ,even Dibella knows that .

[yammy25]

Joshua gets around 450,000 / 500,000 buys when he has a supportive card. The dillian Whyte fight was successful, and having whyte chisora basically carry the Molina card made sure of big ppv numbers.

For a market the size of the UK, he generates approximately a 2% buy rate in accordance with the household market, more than the mayweather pac fight did in the states as the 4.6 million buys werent all from the USA.

Joshua is nowhere near the PPV pull of mayweather in general, and he isnt anything in the states whatsoever.
DiBella is correct in saying it isnt a PPV fight in the states, it should be free to air.

It wont be, and it'll obviously be PPV here in the UK.

Shame it cant be met in the middle and have the US customers charged 30 bucks or so, so its the same price as what we pay.

[BoxingPugilist]

His core argument isn't wrong. At the base, he's saying it would be bigger and better for the sport to put this on Prime Time network broadcast, have a HUGE audience tune in, rather than a small but devoted audience buy it on PPV, and essentially whoever won, became a unified Undisputed Heavyweight World Champion in front of a live TV audience, they would possible have the star power to start moving the needle of interest for future PPV events. But you have to create these stars before you can sell them, and as of right now, both men are stars in the eyes of hardcore boxing fans, but not casuals.

I think that was the subtext of his statements from what I read in the article, and frankly, while I don't much like DiBella, on this occasion, I think he's spot on.

[yammy25]

His core argument isn't wrong. At the base, he's saying it would be bigger and better for the sport to put this on Prime Time network broadcast, have a HUGE audience tune in, rather than a small but devoted audience buy it on PPV, and essentially whoever won, became a unified Undisputed Heavyweight World Champion in front of a live TV audience, they would possible have the star power to start moving the needle of interest for future PPV events. But you have to create these stars before you can sell them, and as of right now, both men are stars in the eyes of hardcore boxing fans, but not casuals.

I think that was the subtext of his statements from what I read in the article, and frankly, while I don't much like DiBella, on this occasion, I think he's spot on.

Maybe in the states, But Joshua is the ****ing idol of casuals in the UK.

[Clegg]

An undefeated American heavyweight champ should be a much bigger star but with the poor level of opposition it hasn't happened. Lou is always a good talker, his spin of 'no we don't want to be a big PPV star generating shit loads of cash, better to fight Polish journeymen in Alabama, doing it all for the fans' wasn't bad.

[BoxingPugilist]

Maybe in the states, But Joshua is the ****ing idol of casuals in the UK.

Totally fair. I haven't lived in the UK since 2014, I've been in the States, and over here I don't think casual boxing fans had ever heard of him prior to being announced as Wlad's next opponent - and even then, a lot still haven't. American casuals, in my experience, know like 5 guys' names...and two of them are still Manny and May.

I miss being able to be in a pub, strike up a conversation about boxing, and not having people stare at you blankly...