Comments Thread For: Mikey Garcia Feels Golovkin Made Mistake By Going To PPV

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

WBC lightweight champion Mikey Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs) is looking for the biggest fights possible, but he has no interest in headlining a pay-per-view event. The pay-per-view landscape has changed from years past and it's become a lot harder to convince consumers.
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[auoydwe]

Astute observation by Mikey Garcia. Pay-Per-View market for boxing needs to die.

[Fabes88]

I hear what mikey is saying but I doubt this was a decision ggg made. I know in the case of the Jacobs fight it had to be ppv due to his excessive demands and he wouldn't agree to the official split so it was either ppv or no fight. You already know everyone would've blamed ggg if the fight didn't happen even it it was due to Jacobs demands.

[DeLorean]

but I thought casuals love knockouts. what happened. GGG is the antithesis of Mayweather who most claimed to despise and couldn't wait for his departure. so why is he flopping?

but it's a bad look when this fight did better numbers than Ward/Kovalev, a match between top five p4p fighters.

[bigdunny1]

Of course Mikey is right. The Jacobs fight being on PPV and it not doing well has hurt GGG stock and bargaining power at the negotiation table with canelo. GGG camp should of taken less money to keep it on regular HBO or let the fight go to haymon. Haymon would of figured out how to come up with money or showtime would of paid for it keeping it off PPV. And if you insisted on it being on PPV only made sense to take the offer from canelo fight BEFORE the Jacobs numbers came out. LMAO

The truth is whatever you thought GGG worth was 2 weeks ago it's less today because this PPV. Oscar all but admitted that his old offer is off the table and that he will give GGG a new offer reflecting the market change. When canelo/chavez does huge numbers GGG offer probably drops more.

[Ray*]

Well said Mikey, I despise PPV fights and hope that trend dies off sooner rather than later.

[deathofaclown]

It wasn't a PPV fight, very few fights really are but it seems sometimes it's the only way to get the fights to happen.

[iamboxing]

I thought PBC was going to kill PPV

[PunchyPotorff]

I remember a way different landscape years ago. When PPV meant you went to the local colosseum, paid 10 bucks, saw a huge low-quality big screen with a fairly lame picture quality. I even remember one time the event was cancelled because they could get the video feed to come on. I guess that was the 70s, with the era of all the 70s stars in the sport. Indeed Garcia is right, the landscape has changed. But everything changes in life.

You'd think though, that the promoters, managers, networks, fighters could find a way to make a decent living without PPVs.

[daggum]

who tells mikey that he could be on ppv wtf....these yes men nowadyas