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

[sicko]

super bowl, world series, nba finals, stanley cup final, world cup, olympics are all free. Boxing? Well cotto-kirkland with a **** undercard was going to cost $60 on ppv. Boxing is marketed to fools.

great point!

[MrRolltide91]

I could see this fight at Wembley stadium

[MrRolltide91]

Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Final, World Cup, Olympics are all free. Boxing? Well Cotto-Kirkland with a **** undercard was going to cost $60 on PPV. Boxing is marketed to fools.

Blame the promoters

[MrRolltide91]

That definitely isn't helping. The biggest problem is the fights people most wanna see don't happen very timely turning off the audience as a whole. But yea just because the one fight PPV card was the original model for PPV doesn't mean that you don't ever switch things up or move things forward when the market is saying this isn't working anymore.

You think boxing would be big as other sports if the best fights were on regular tv?

[KillaCamNZ]

Simply put, Wilder just won't draw. A great saying I once heard is "a guy who works with the guy that draws the money". That's Wilder.

[Eff Pandas]

You think boxing would be big as other sports if the best fights were on regular tv?

Well mainly I was suggesting PPV's could be structured stronger as an event with multiple important fights all the time vs largely being 1 fight events, but yea I definitely don't think free TV hurts boxing.

Also don't know what you mean by as big as other sports. I mean boxing is never likely to reach NFL numbers, but for sure I think boxing can be more popular than it is now obviously too.

I don't think boxing will ever achieve a regular higher standard & even respect in the sport community, like most sports do, until boxing works more like all the other major sports people watch & has more structure & makes more sense/is less confusing to keep up with. Think about it anyone who just started to watch & get into boxing today without knowing all the fractions & clicks in the boxing world would assume at some point very soon the top 2 guys in any particular division will be fighting if they haven't fought already when us following the sport for years & decades right now know that that isn't likely to be the case more often than not. And thats f#cking insane if you think about it as boxing is ultimately a business built on entertaining fans not fleecing the boxing fan community for PPV money once or twice a year as its seemingly become at the elite level of the sport.

[JRB123]

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

Joshua would be the reason now, and in the future if he stays undefeated. He is the bigger draw at this point, was the case last year with the signing to Showtime just as he got the IBF belt and within a year after that, he is part of the biggest fight in the division in years.

Wilder hasn't done anything to be close to a PPV event by any means.

[PAC-BOY]

It may do a 1000 buys.

PPV:AOR: Im not buying

[Sugar Adam Ali]

You think boxing would be big as other sports if the best fights were on regular tv?

Yes, without a doubt... best fighting the best or at least legit matchups on regular tv would be huge.

Decades ago that's how it was, and boxing had tons of stars. Guys like Camacho, Mancini, etc were bigger stars than most of the current fighters

[Madison Boxing]

i'd happily pay for it and im reluctant to buy PPV's. WOuld be a huge heavyweight fight.