Comments Thread For: Hearn: Wilder-Fury PPV Number is Terrible, Absolutely Terrible

[Ake-Dawg]

That’s what I’m saying. The user is trying to bait you because those offers were made before wilder fought fury (they were in camp) so of course wilder said no. And it worked, Hearniacs can call duck

I don't recall the details of the offer being made public. He claimed that it was 35% and a two fight deal with $20M guaranteed. He said it was quite public but I can't find a single source.

[uppercut510]

i know we will. The question is, will you be ok

im good thanks for asking, just move on with your life

[Noelanthony]

https://twitter.com/BoxingFAUSA/stat...21246274850816

If rematch is in the U.K. then it’s ******. However if the rematch is in the USA it’s a great idea. However even if Warren was selfish enough to put it on that date AJ is my boy but I know what fight I will be watching but just to show I’m not a total snake I would stream it out of respect to Aj

[Noelanthony]

im good thanks for asking, just move on with your life

What are you going on about you muppet!! This is a boxing forum . I gave you my opinion which is what everyone does and you are getting philosophical and telling me to move on with my life. Lol. Salty vaginas you Wilder fans. If I insulted you in anyway it wasn’t my intention. I’m on to the next one

[killakali]

You are speaking quite gibberish now. You are not making an ounce of sense. Repeat that question over and over again until you can correct it. Then you can come to me correct.

Bloke, the purses are negotiated and predetermined before the rematch ever commences. A fighter already knows what his guarantee is before he even steps into the ring and that's not including the percentage of what the particular fight sells.

Cabron. U asked me how much wilder would make in a AJ rematch. It all depends on the outcome of their first fight. Get with it. Lmao

[Jax teller]

The US PPV made 24 million , you failed to mention/take into account that the UK PPV will also make another 20 + million .

You think Fury and Wilder are getting 1 mil + PPV buys in the UK at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, that's near AJ figures at a prime time! You're are so fuccin deluded it's unreal.

Mayweather v Pac got it just about got 1 mil the most hyped fight of the century.

[champion4ever]

The fact is, for the exception of the hardcore boxing fans, the typical Anthony Joshua fan don't know shit about boxing.

[champion4ever]

Cabron. U asked me how much wilder would make in a AJ rematch. It all depends on the outcome of their first fight. Get with it. Lmao

Mate, I don't want to offend or insult you but obviously you heard but didn't understand me. I was referring to the pending Wilder/Fury rematch on April 13, 2019. On the very same date as Joshua is scheduled to challenge one of his recycled leftovers

[BlackHawk2017]

Hearn is ****** jealous & butt hurt...

325k at $75 is good better than Ward-Kovalev. Compared to Joshua who sells PPVs for $20.

Hearn is talking nonsense because he realized he's on a stalemate. Do you think you can fool us, Hearn is like insulting our capacity to assess & evaluate the ppv outcome of the fight. It's good that Wilder doesn't buy his tricks, he overvalued his coward fighter Joshua to avoid the fight. It's clear that Wilder-Fury priced at S74.99 w/ 300k ppv = S24.3 million 3x more quality value than Whyte-Parker priced at L19.95 w/ the same 300k ppv = S8.1 million. It only shows the fight could probably generate around 900k ppv if w/ same price value.

[KTFOKING]

I haven’t actually seen the interview Hearn said this but nothing sound so odd. My initial reaction was that 320k ish was “ok” and nothing more. I expected 500k to be deemed a success.

Part of the reason for this is because you were not just promoting a heavyweight title clash but two of the most promotable characters in the game and both whom had a claim for #1 status given their unbeaten status and history.

People can talk about us revenue all they like but simply put England is 1/50th (don’t quote me just estimating based on state numbers so won’t be accurste) the size of America so not unreasonable to expect you should expect significantly higher.

Comparing directly is a bit like saying Joshua sales across all of Europe vs America for example and I know that doesn’t quite work.

Having said all that - I do remain of the view that the draw and the nature of it - can only be good for boxing and both fighters - and should help contribute to a far more successful ‘replay’.

I watched a interview of frank warren where he implied BT numbers were still be counted, which made me think uk ppv weren’t that strong either - but given that it was on middle of the night I think it was probably unfair to expect much else.

The thing is, 500k buys simply don't happen in the US unless you are fighting a megastar and it definitely doesn't happen in your first PPV as the headliner vs a non-superstar. Wilder did numbers on par with those of the likes of DLH/Floyd/Pac/etc in their first PPV as headliners. Had Fury not disappeared for almost three years then his name would have been bigger stateside and the fight would have done better. But he went on a hiatus and no one saw his last two fights so the casuals bought it purely on hype. Now they know who he is along with Wilder.

And trust me, Hearn was hoping it would do less than what it did. There are some interviews he mentioned it may do 200k buys. So how did he go from thinking it does 200k buys to now 325k being a terrilbe number? Something isn't adding up here. What he is trying to do is show Wilder still isn't a big name and his value doesn't go all that up in negotiations. The problem is no one will want to hear this from him anymore. He's not winning the PR game against either Fury or Wilder. They will just rematch and the public will give Joshua and Hearn some stick.