I think the response will be very positive. It's a great fight between two very marketable personalities. The disappointing PPV's we've seen lately (Ward-Kovalev for example) have been between incredibly boring personalities who couldn't sell water to a man dying in the desert. Wilder does great numbers on regular Showtime..
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Actually Fury humor will be received very well in the US probably more so than the UK! Get on on Fox Sports 1 and ESPN and let him just Rant and that will boost PPV Buys
The numbers will be Solid, might even EXCEED expectation IF Marketed Correctly. These are Heavyweights, haven't had a Heavyweight Boxing PPV in America in a LONG TIME but Heavyweights usually get the Casuals to come out. All will depend on how they market it and I don't think it should be the OLD BOXING MODEL of Marketing with "TV Commercials and Radio Commercials" no they have to be active on social media for this one. Need Celebrities talking about it, need Social Media Personalities with Millions of Followers talking about it.
Some of these Promoters could really take notes from KSI vs Logan Paul. I notice Promoters (Top Rank, GBP, Matchroom) they really don't use their own youtube pages much and neither have much of a following and that is the problem.
Ranting a bit yeah I think it can do well in the US, they build up a buzz over in the UK, now the big challenge is doing the same in the USLast edited by sicko; 08-21-2018, 12:16 PM.
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All it is going to take to make this 800K to 1M US buys is Wilder and Fury going back and forth during halftime of a good NFL game, you know like the ones CBS airs (CBS is Showtime's parent company).
And we haven't even started on the ALL ACCESS episodes yet...
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Originally posted by Manlikefemi View PostSo it looks like Showtime are doing their first PPV since Mayweather v Mcgregor.
How do you think the numbers will do, remember PPV is around $50-70 between two relative unknown fighters in Wilder and Fury.
Fury's Humour may come across as cringy to the U.S. market, so the Mayweather-Mcgregor Press tour marketing tool may not work. Can't see it doing more than 300K, which is still double what Kovalev-Ward did.
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Originally posted by IMDAZED View PostMany of the people picking low #'s are the same ones who were skeptical about it happening. This fight does 500K plus. The Wilder-Fury announcement was the lead-in on SportsCenter. The build-up is going to be huge.
Canelo-GGG 2 and McGregor-Khabib are in the 2 months prior and are much better, bigger fights.
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Originally posted by RoyJonesJrp4pno1 View PostUnder 200k.
Canelo-GGG 2 and McGregor-Khabib are in the 2 months prior and are much better, bigger fights.
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