Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder-Fury Has Only Sold 8,000 Tickets; Not A Good Look

[N/A]

In the USA directv yes indeed gets a cut from a ppv but guess what ? the ppv distribution also gets a cut eg showtime then gets a slice.

What the uk has an advantage over is only one slice goes out to sky as they are the provider of the dish and also the distributor on their channel and then the rest goes to the fighter

There's no UK advantage. Just because Sky owns two different services doesn't mean they're going to forego money they're entitled to out of the kindness of their hearts.

Sky UK is going to take their cut as the service provider and Sky Box Office is going to take their cut as the distributor.

It's hilarious to see idiot fans pretend they know how this stuff works. You're literally just pulling stuff out of your ass. Let me know the last time you negotiated an international PPV. I'll wait.

[Curt Henning]

Yes it will do good numbers just not the kind it should. I remember telling a casual at work I was gonna go home and watch the big fight. He started naming of mma guys and I said no. Boxing wilder vs Ortiz. He said oh that talk guy. I said yeah. So his name is getting around.

my friends wife even knows who wilder is from that WAGs of Atlanta show and he even got here interested to watch wilder/ortiz...wilders name is definitley climbing

[The plunger man]

Wrong. HBO's distribution fee was 7%, not 25%. You seriously have no idea what you're talking about. Sky Box Office takes a similar distribution fee. You're exposing yourself really bad here.

ok so they get a 7% of that 40 or 35 dollars depending on the cost of 80 dollars or 75 dollars... ok say 40 dollars as a over the top price because it's 75 I believe ...ok 30 dollars to fight lol ..Joshua sells 4 or 5 times the amount of 300k do the maths dummy..you seem to have some sort of ******ation to understand 300k figures lol...ok 32 dollars for a 300k ..that's 9.6 million revenue slit 50/50 ..4.8 million for donkey when he could have got 15 million from Joshua in April ..it's seems to be intelligence wise you are on his level lol

[Motorcity Cobra]

Wilder has never sold a PPV before and has had trouble selling tickets in the past also. I doubt it even reaches 500k sold.

300k would be a decent number but for 2 of the top 3 heavyweights, that's bad.

I doubt it reaches 500k too, and 300k would be a good number. Its equal to what other stars have done on their first couple PPV's, like Canelo and Floyd. That's why Hearn setting the bar at a million is ridiculous.

[The plunger man]

I doubt it reaches 500k too, and 300k would be a good number. Its equal to what other stars have done on their first couple PPV's, like Canelo and Floyd. That's why Hearn setting the bar at a million is ridiculous.

why is it ridiculous when Joshua sells 5 times the amount of buys than wilder if he sells 300k...a million is then split in to 500k which is what the actual amount would be if wilder sold a million.
So basically you expect Joshua to hand feed wilder with what he brings to the table.
Wilder will never do a million PPV he don't have enough time and the market is just not there anymore if your not Mexican lol. Come on fella wisen up

[Motorcity Cobra]

why is it ridiculous when Joshua sells 5 times the amount of buys than wilder if he sells 300k...a million is then split in to 500k which is what the actual amount would be if wilder sold a million.
So basically you expect Joshua to hand feed wilder with what he brings to the table.
Wilder will never do a million PPV he don't have enough time and the market is just not there anymore if your not Mexican lol. Come on fella wisen up

Because the price is damn near 5x's higher than Joshua's. America is a much more competitive market. Floyd, Canelo, Oscars and other PPV stars started off around 300k. Even a big fight like Cotto-Martinez and Martinez-JCC Jr did just a little north of 300k.

This is a whole different market here. This is the big pond. Joshua is a big fish in a small pond.

[The plunger man]

Because the price is damn near 5x's higher than Joshua's. America is a much more competitive market. Floyd, Canelo, Oscars and other PPV stars started off around 300k. Even a big fight like Cotto-Martinez and Martinez-JCC Jr did just a little north of 300k.

This is a whole different market here. This is the big pond. Joshua is a big fish in a small pond.

Did you do maths at school ? 5x $25 is $125 the last time i added up and isn't the wilder fury fight PPV $70 dollars ? and 50% is lost straight away to the cable supplier yes ?
How many ppvs have wilder sold so far gumbo ...what's that you say zero ohh yeah your right its zero.
Yiu should have gone to school instead of lighting up that crack pipe and you could have added it up lol
Another dimwit

[The plunger man]

Because the price is damn near 5x's higher than Joshua's. America is a much more competitive market. Floyd, Canelo, Oscars and other PPV stars started off around 300k. Even a big fight like Cotto-Martinez and Martinez-JCC Jr did just a little north of 300k.

This is a whole different market here. This is the big pond. Joshua is a big fish in a small pond.

he sure has left it late to start building up his ppv portfolio....nearly 32 isnt he ? And who else is he going to fight to attract the big numbers in the heavyweight division...don't say joshua because he hasn't proved he can match Joshua's numbers 1 bit so untill he can match joshuas drawing power he will remain a 30% percent fighter and joshua 70%
Wilder is an unknown small fish in an even bigger pond you should say.

[Amber_TKO]

You would think Hearn was promoting this show the way he can't stop talking about it.

[Scipio2009]

Tyson Fury is a large part of that, you want to just completely ignore that? A true draw can sell against anybody. Wilder can't.

Wilder-Fury is a big fight; if you want to put the lion's share of the interest in Los Angeles on a guy who's had one fight in the US and maybe 3 fights that significant numbers of the American audience has seen, that's on you.

Wilder can sell tickets in Alabama, Wilder can sell tickets in Brooklyn, and Wilder has even shown a bit of ability to sell tickets in Las Vegas.

Let's see how he does in LA