Kovalev doesn't show up for HBO faceoff taping. Ward is furious and leaves Vegas

[The Time]

I agree with this but IMO the face off helps promote the fight far more than the interview on a PPV so Ward probably should've gone about this another way.

Yeah Face Off with Max Kellerman definitely promotes a fight better than just a standard interview.

[Rip Chudd]

So Kovalev was a no show for the interview during the Canelo-Chavez Jr PPV

And Ward was a no show for the scheduled recording of Face Off with Max Kellerman the following day Sunday.

SMH, I understand the animosity they have towards each other but they are both only hurting themselves.

I guess they like selling only 160,000 PPV's

They can make more money this time if the fight is advertised and promoted enough.

They are shooting themselves in the foot at this point.

The most unbiased post in the thread. Well said

[-PBP-]

So the hypocrites from the other thread criticizing Ward for not showing up are now defending Kovalev for not showing up. Just another predictable day on NSB.


My attitude, is **** this TMZ ****, and all this ****** promotional BS and talk about the actual fight.

This fight will only do 150K give or take regardless. The only people that watch the face-offs and pre-fight pressers is us.

[The Big Dunn]

Yeah Face Off with Max Kellerman definitely promotes a fight better than just a standard interview.

Seems Ward has decided not to help the promotion except whatever Roc Nation wants to do. Tells me that Ward's purse is less driven by the PPV sales than Kov's.

Silly move IMO. I would think Roc wants to maximize sales and attendance.

[ruedboy]

"He said, she said" lol
Word is SOG left town to meet with his Father!

[Scipio2009]

I agree with this but IMO the face off helps promote the fight far more than the interview on a PPV so Ward probably should've gone about this another way.

Alvarez-Chavez Jr likely had 1m paying PPV homes; HBO's boxing schedule, in advance of Ward-Kovalev II, has all of one boxing date on the docket (with HBO's boxing viewership being lower for the year).

Not to be a jerk, but a tense interviewed face-off between two fighters who don't like each other all that much, in front of a paying audience that's likely to be massive, will go a heck of a long way to selling 500k PPV buys for Ward-Kovalev II than another Face-Off (which has it's own value, tbf).

Kovalev/Main Events are the B-side ad should acknowledge such in the promotion.

[The Big Dunn]

whatever. Dude spends every second of his free time scouring the net for stories that paint white people in as negative a light as possible. He's a race troll of the highest order. He's a Sharpton wannabe and all that matters to him is the headline, and the ACTUAL UNDERLYING FACTS are of minor importance.

In this case he responded to a one sided and agenda driven thread that was created by someone that had him on ignore.

This post is odd seeing that you didn't care about the actual underlying facts either. If you find fault with Ward, fine. Just say that. You seemed to purposely misrepresent this was something he just made up to try and discredit it.

[sicko]

Confusing but I honestly don't GIVE A *** about no Face Off or any of that look forward to the fight and hopefully it is no excuses or controversy at the end of this one

[Sun_Tzu]

Next on Days of Our Lives.......

[The Big Dunn]

Alvarez-Chavez Jr likely had 1m paying PPV homes; HBO's boxing schedule, in advance of Ward-Kovalev II, has all of one boxing date on the docket (with HBO's boxing viewership being lower for the year).

Not to be a jerk, but a tense interviewed face-off between two fighters who don't like each other all that much, in front of a paying audience that's likely to be massive, will go a heck of a long way to selling 500k PPV buys for Ward-Kovalev II than another Face-Off (which has it's own value, tbf).

Kovalev/Main Events are the B-side ad should acknowledge such in the promotion.

Respectfully, I disagree because (in hindsight) anything they would've done at the fight would've been forgotten given the GGG/Canelo announcement and pomp at the end and because Face off is available on demand and is repeated on cable.

Either way, IMO an opportunity to promote was missed. I am all for gamesmanship but this feels like ****** politics between the 2 promotional companies that IMO will only hurt sales.

Roc Nation said they have a marketing plan but they are still neophytes and I don't know how successful it will be. HBO has a plan to promote but Ward doesn't seem to interested to help them out most likely because he didn't get a new deal (that I am aware of).

Frankly, they should be doing everything they can to help sales increase.