Joshua vs Klitschko smashes PPV record - does 1.5+ million buys!

[-Kev-]

Good news, and I definitely like Hearn's business model. Pricing PPVs at 20 pounds, even a huge fight like Wlad-AJ is very smart. Nobody wants to pay $60/70 for a US PPV anymore, thus the low numbers in the States. For 20 bux, it's a whole different ball game.

US PPVs need to follow along with this. It's important to note that US has almost 6x the population of UK. By making the PPV lower priced, it becomes much more accessible to casual fans and should see a big surge in # of PPV purchased.

Im simplistic terms, UK averages a purchase rate of 500K for good PPVs, out of a population of 65M people, for a buy rate of 0.77%. If US produces a similar buy rate, it would sell 2.4M PPVs (324m*0.0077).

US has a ****ed up PPV system.

You got Crawford-Postol doing what 50k? Maybe if the PPV cost $22 dollars like in the UK (19.95 euros), you'd have a much higher buyrate and more viewers, and actually more revenue.

50k*$60 = $3mill
150k*$22 = $3.3 mill (conservative #)

Arum said he lost $100k on TC-Postol..well putting the fight almost 2x cheaper would've gained $300k more in PPV rev (with my example) and Arum would not have lost $100k.

Now let's say Americans really took a liking to the $22 dollar price tag and more of them would've bought it, like let's say 250k people * $22 = $5.5 million

What does HBO have to lose in at least trying it out once? Canelo vs Chavez Jr is $70, while the PPV will sell well, let's say 700k, if it was $22 it would sell like Mayweather-Pacquiao due to the large Hispanic community in the US who aren't willing to pay $70 and instead gather around one TV in groups of 20-30 and pay for food and drinks.

[soul_survivor]

You know an idiot when he starts attacking you for no reason.

We all saw you didn't understand that it was a simple mistake and jumped to conclusions because of it. You tried to make me look bad because you have some kind of inferiority complex which is just sad.

Get out more.

what was my very next post?

don't try and deflect from your inability to read. Fac tis Hearn does not know the ppv number and said as much...you know, if you could actually read. There was some other guy who posted exactly the same thread and I said the same thing in that too.

SImple fact is this, Sky do not release ppv figures so we will neevr know. There is no point in making such sensationalist threads. So you understand now Barbara?

[LacedUp]

what was my very next post?

don't try and deflect from your inability to read. Fac tis Hearn does not know the ppv number and said as much...you know, if you could actually read. There was some other guy who posted exactly the same thread and I said the same thing in that too.

SImple fact is this, Sky do not release ppv figures so we will neevr know. There is no point in making such sensationalist threads. So you understand now Barbara?

I tend not to read rubbish.

Run along kid. You showed your colours, face up to it and stop crying about it.

[hayZ]

Limited? Lol!!! I think it's the other way around dude. I pay attention to the worldwide part of the sport. Many only put into boxers they like or the color/flag mentality.

Lack of personality? So what?!?! He's professional about his sport. Not everyone is going to be all loud and shit.
His lack of destruction for a HW?!?! LOL again! He's knocked out most of his opponents with over 75% KO ratio. How the hell is that lack of destruction?

Jab jab hold? Hello Andre Ward! That goes back to my first comment. People call that crafty when Ward/Hopkins do it but when Wlad does it, it's boring. If Wlad was so boring, this fight wouldn't of sold the way it should of, Wlad wouldn't be popular in Germany(hey!! it's another country) and many other things. Cut the bullshit hating. You haven't seen 50ish Klitschko fights either so quit lying.

People also found and find Bhop and Ward boring too. Which is why they are and never were PPV stars.

Wlad is well known in Europe. Partially due to him being dominant for so long and his brother too. Wlad is boring as **** in the ring. It's sad seeing a huge HW jab, jab, hold and lean on the opponent when he could literally end the fight with one punch or if he was more aggressive.

The only reason he went so aggressive in this fight was because he knew how his timidness cost him vs Fury. Wlad always looked great when he was actually aggressive during his reign, problem was he played it safe too often and never seemed to want to risk anything at all....not giving a **** about the fans at all in that respect.

Look at any star in the UK in the past 10 years for example. Which one of them was actually boring to watch? None really. Calzaghe only became well known post-Lacy and he threw **** loads of punches, was very active and fought some names towards the end.