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

[KTFOKING]

I'm not the one who was saying Fury/Wilder was the biggest fight of the year. Americans were. They were trying to **** on Joshua by making such idiotic comments. But you know what they're like. They're desperately trying to smear AJ at every turn and talking complete bollocks. Don't try and tell me you haven't seen any of it because this place is filled with such garbage. So don't try and play ignorant with me.

Nope, sorry I will be playing "ignorant" with you if folks thought this fight was going to be bigger than Canelo/GGG II. Please point me to those folks that said such blasphemy.

[BennyBlanco]

You do know Hearn has offered a 20 mill guarantee or a 35% cut of the money, which ever he thinks is more, don't you?

Credible source?

Meaning something other than Eddie said so, since we all know Eddie says whatever is convenient.

Best verified offer I've heard that Hearn made is $15M.

[Sid-Knee]

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 the UK PPV will bring that much? You pulled this out of your arse didn't you? How many buys did BT have?

[KTFOKING]

Exposed as having no skill and for being a hypejob. He couldn't even beat a 50% version of Fury who has just lost a load of weight after being obese and looking like **** against 2 handpicked bums. But it seems you don't have to have much substance to do well against Wilder. Bums have won handfuls of rounds against him.

Wilder has got his name out there more due to the Fury fight, but the vast majority of it is negative. Wilder isn't helping his cause with all the ridiculous excuses he's coming out with. But it is giving everyone a good laugh. He can't deal with it.

Wilder isn't going to make big money outside of Whyte and Joshua once the Fury fights are done with.

You think Wilder can fight the likes of Brezeale on PPV? Hahahahahahahaha. What, for 75 dollars? Well, you people are that thick. Good luck on that one.

Wilder, a megastar? Oh dear. This is the level of bollocks i'm talking about with you lot. He'll never be a megastar. It's absolute delusion to think he ever could be.

You struggle to read don't you? I said IF Wilder beats Fury in a rematch in a PPV that will do mega numbers in Wilder style, then yes he becomes a megastar and yes he fights the rest of his career on PVP.

Exposed in having no skill? Yet a few sentences later you say bums have won rounds against him. Huh? So what is it? What exactly was exposed of him if you admit we saw "bums" win rounds against him? His "hype" comes from his power which was proven true against Fury.

I will agree his excuses are extremely weak and unnecessary. But his name is certainly not being seen in a negative light, especially stateside. Every radio station/sports show he goes to all people talk about is how good the fight was and that they can't wait for the rematch.

[Sid-Knee]

Hearns such a bitter Hater on anything he’s not associated with

The event generated probably in the neighbourhood of 35+ million dollars when it’s all said and done

That has to be pretty good when you consider Wilder is a nobody in the States according to Hearn and it was his first PPV

With only 325,000 people buying the fight, Wilder is still a nobody in the US. Unless you think he's now an established name with that many viewers? Haha.

[KTFOKING]

Spence and Crawford aren't stars because they fight bums all the time. Canelo, Pac and Cotto had many big fights for them to sell to fans. What have Spence and Crawford got?

So if Spence/Crawford fight each other, a match up of two top 10 P4P fighters and to some two top 5 P4P fighters, that alone should be enough to make that into a mega fight right? I mean two elite fighters fighting against each other and they both happen to be Americans?? Is that the blueprint right there? If they fight they will easily do over a million buys because they check every box right?

Sorry, but being American doesn't give you a better chance of selling PPVs. You said it yourself, those fighters had opponents, in particular DLH for both Mayweather/Pacquiao. Without DLH, they were just doing Wilder/Fury numbers. And then Canelo had Mayweather while Cotto had both Mayweather/Pacquiao. So yeah, there goes your theory. Now, Wilder seems to have THE opponent to breakthrough with the rematch. Fury had a star making performance inside the ring and then post-fight. Hence, the PPV is going to be a huge mega event.

[Sid-Knee]

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

I can guarantee that everyone of them knows a lot more about boxing than you do. You don't know **** about boxing.

I can also guarantee they don't need home help the way you clearly do. You're detached from reality in a big way. Trust me, you're crazy.

[Sid-Knee]

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.

Tricks? You mean tricks like Wilder refusing to fight Joshua for 15 Mill calling it "Crackhead" money but taking less in what he called a bigger fight than Joshua in Fury? Are those the kind of tricks idiots buy into that you're talking about?

I see those kind of idiots all the time on here. They come from a certain country. I'm actually talking to one of those very idiots right now.

[Sid-Knee]

If you factor in gate which was probable $10-15 mil this was a good payday. $34-40 mil is good any day of the week. So I would say give Wilder/Fury $30 mil flat guarantee and call it a day. That's fair unless Wilder/Fury PPV numbers for second fight in UK increase dramatically.

You think the gate did about 10-15 Mill? Hahahaha.

It did about 3.5 Mill.

You Wilder loons, hey. Desperation oozing from every pore.

[Sid-Knee]

If Wilder is "virtually unmarketable" then why is Hearn suddenly so interested in making a Wilder-AJ fight?

Because boxing fans are calling for it, maybe? Joshua is the one who brings the star power though. Wilder is nothing more than an opponent.