Comments Thread For: Wilder-Fury: Why PPV Will Always Cost Much More In U.S. Than UK

[Pigeons]

Wilder/Fury would NOT sell more in the UK than in the US, the time difference makes it difficult for people who would have brought it on PPV.

Fury-Klitschko only did 545K buys in the UK with the fight happening at normal times. I would expect maybe half of that this time around.


I expect Wilder-Fury to do 250-300K buys in the U.S. and UK.


U.S.:
250K * $75 = $18.75M

300K * $75 = $22.5M



UK:
250K * $25 = $6.25M

300K * $25 = $7.5M


Total PPV revenue: $25-30M

[Earl-Hickey]

That raised more questions than answers

"it wont go down in price because nobody wants to try it at $50"

oh great

[MEXfistology]

What the hell is your problem GRINCH?! Its not even Christmas, let us happy folk celebrate good times. Deontay is going to become KING! of the HW division!

Grinch? Lmao please be 13 yrs old, a grown man would be more mature

[P4Pdunny]

Paying £20 doesn't seem so bad in comparison. I still even think thats alot.

[James Hunt]

...The consensus among industry insiders is that the floor for Wilder-Fury buys in the U.S. is around 250,000.
If Wilder-Fury does 350,000 buys in the U.S., it’d be considered very successful...

Dream on, baby! This "fight" will do cca. 100.000 (+-10.000) PPV buys. It will flop. Same goes for ticket sales.

Distributors such as Showtime earn approximately 10 percent of the 50 percent of pay-per-view revenue that’s left after cable and satellite providers take their 50 percent off the top of those $75 buys.

So "fighters" only get cca. 45% of the total PPV revenue. Someone will be very disappointed.

[James Hunt]

If either wants a genuine argument for a something close to a 50/50 split against Joshua, then this needs to do at least a million buys between the 2 markets of UK and USA.
I hope it does well because neither want to accept a lot less payment than AJ will get, and Hearn will not offer either a favourable split if they do not justify it with their own PPV buys/Gates.

In this case, only US PPV numbers count cuz UK is already covered by Joshua. No one sells better in the UK than him.

[James Hunt]

Fury-Klitschko only did 545K buys in the UK with the fight happening at normal times. I would expect maybe half of that this time around.


I expect Wilder-Fury to do 250-300K buys in the U.S. and UK.


U.S.:
250K * $75 = $18.75M

300K * $75 = $22.5M



UK:
250K * $25 = $6.25M

300K * $25 = $7.5M


Total PPV revenue: $25-30M

I'm sorry, but Wilder vs Fury won't do even close to 250K in the US. More likely 100K. And only around 45% of the total PPV revenue in the US goes to the fighters.

[Ray*]

A lot of people that can't watch it with friend because they're out of town or their friends don't care about boxing aren't gonna want to spend $75 to stay in alone and most people probably wouldn't go to a bar on their own to watch either. I think they're pricing themselves out and it seems very short sighted as the more people watch it, the more people talk about it, them more people buy next time (if it was a good enough event).

I said this exact same thing yesterday to another poster. The argument that if they sold one PPV at $75 (Current rate), oppose to selling 3 PPV at $25 might make sense, but you have more chance selling more PPV at the lower rates than at the higher rate. At the lower rate you have a better chance at convincing the undecided to buy it and watch it alone, rather people looking for a stream. I really do think they miss a chance here with this fight at 65 dollars standard view.

[davidw9785]

What the hell is your problem GRINCH?! Its not even Christmas, let us happy folk celebrate good times. Deontay is going to become KING! of the HW division!

I always like your enthusiasm bro! It's time for more people to get excited about an AMERICAN heavyweight that can knock people the f**k out!!

[Robbie Barrett]

Dream on, baby! This "fight" will do cca. 100.000 (+-10.000) PPV buys. It will flop. Same goes for ticket sales.



So "fighters" only get cca. 45% of the total PPV revenue. Someone will be very disappointed.

They don't get that after their trainers/promoter and 4 managers take their cut.