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

[HarvardBlue]

There used to be a time when boxing was all over TV for free. In Golovkin's case, his team thinks he is the "next big thing" so naturally we should have to pay to see him fight.

[Mammoth]

Mikey also thinks Jacobs win

[WesternChamp]

would mikey be saying the same thing if he was a ppv star??

[j0zef]

I don't know if it's a mistake or not - when you start appearing on PPV, you develop a reputation and a certain glamour. On top of that, free TV/HBO fighters will never make as much as PPV fighters, even for low budget PPVs. Even Crawford's 70k PPV event generated him the highest purse to date.

However as a long term trend, Mikey may be right. PPV model is dying. Or at the very least, requiring to have HBO/Showtime in order to get the event is definitely a dying practice due to so many cord cutters. Networks need to make PPV events both cheaper and easier accessible online. If the price of the PPV was ~$20-40, all in HD, and you could easily stream it off HBOPPV.com or something, they would see the number of buys increase significantly.

[Luilun]

Floyd vs Manny kind of ruined PPV they built this fight up for what 6 years only to be a dud for $100. If Floyd and Manny PPV would have been $50 people would have got over of this crap fight and continued to buy PPV at a reasonable price but the average person doesn't want to be duped once again. Why do you think Floyd vs Berto didn't sell to much. Back in the day Mike Tyson would sell PPV reguardless of whom he was fighting

[Luilun]

Mikey also thinks Jacobs win

I think GGG won and so did the judges

[WesternChamp]

Floyd vs Manny kind of ruined PPV they built this fight up for what 6 years only to be a dud for $100. If Floyd and Manny PPV would have been $50 people would have got over of this crap fight and continued to buy PPV at a reasonable price but the average person doesn't want to be duped once again. Why do you think Floyd vs Berto didn't sell to much. Back in the day Mike Tyson would sell PPV reguardless of whom he was fighting

that fight did leave a sour taste for all the fans but low ppv sales right now is not because of that fight only. times is changing, there's so many sites that will stream ppv fights. and boxing as a whole hasnt been too exciting as of late. its not just because of the floyd vs manny fight. all these other "big fights" aint living up to the hype.

[PK3434]

I enjoy and respect Mikey as a fighter but he wasted almost 3 years of his prime because he thinks he's smarter than he is. He should stay away from commenting on the business side of things for other fighters. If he had any common sense, he would understand that the only reason both of Golovkin's fights were on ppv was because HBO doesn't have the budget to afford the purses that his (respectable) opponents want in order to get in the ring with GGG.
These were not events specifically designed to be ppvs.

[Mike D]

boxing's a business

and like any other business, everything can and will be used against you in negotiations

if your PPVs don't fare well, then yeah, it'll most definitely be used against you

[boxingitis]

PPV and fights in Premium channels like HBO and Showtime is dead. Put them back of free TV with comercials. ESPN, Fox Sports, and big Channels for bigger audience, FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC. PPV is also dead for MMA and Wrestling.