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

[chicken-]

There were thousands of empty seats for the fight. And this was after giving thousands of tickets away for free.

The ticket prices in the UK are good. They make more money than nearly every fight in the US. It doesn't price fans out of seeing a fight. That can only be healthy for the sport.

There were not thousands of empty seats lol

[JRB123]

Well he knew 15 million was crack head money so it was only sensible that he took under 10.

That's Wilder logic for you.

Now you have him making excuses after the fight including the one about having a broken arm...you know, around the time when he claimed that he had an "offer" for AJ and passed on signing that contract that was for at least 15 million dollars.

[Raggamuffin]

Wilder was GUARANTEED $4 million plus PPV. BOTH made over $10,000,000+ $14 sounds about right.

Actually its posted on mutiple sites Wilder did make $14mil

Good post lmao.

[JRB123]

The live gate numbers have come out already? Link for that?

”...Fury roared as he began his post-fight news conference late Saturday night at Staples Center, where 17,698 who generated a $3.5-million live gate were captivated in watching the Englishman almost miraculously rise from Wilder’s 12th-round knockdown..."

https://www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-sp-wilder-fury-20181202-story.html

[KTFOKING]

”...Fury roared as he began his post-fight news conference late Saturday night at Staples Center, where 17,698 who generated a $3.5-million live gate were captivated in watching the Englishman almost miraculously rise from Wilder’s 12th-round knockdown..."

https://www.latimes.com/sports/boxin...202-story.html

Nice, Pugmire is always on point. I believe the official numbers from the commission will be released soon.

[Sid-Knee]

There were not thousands of empty seats lol

So 17 thousand in an arena that holds 21 thousand seats doesn't have thousands of empty seats?

[KTFOKING]

So 17 thousand in an arena that holds 21 thousand seats doesn't have thousands of empty seats?

Just because the arena holds 21k doesn't mean 21k seats were open for the fight. I believe they opened it for 19k or 19.5k.

[Fanofreason]

Lol Joshua unified vs Charles Martin on Showtime did 275k views.

But wilder doing 325k Showtime ppv guys at $74.99 is trash lmao. Just go away fast Eddie.

[-Kev-]

The 325k PPV @ $75 Wilder vs Fury generated more money than any single PPV Joshua has had at $15 euros.

[Sid-Knee]

Just because the arena holds 21k doesn't mean 21k seats were open for the fight. I believe they opened it for 19k or 19.5k.

They would have opened up every seat but were seeing how well the tickets were going to sell first. They didn't want to put it out that all seats were open from the off only to have egg on their faces when tickets weren't being sold. Wilder has never sold out an arena thus far so it's understandable. But you saw for yourself how slow the ticket sales were. They even gave a load away as well to fill some of those seats. Americans made comments on the forums about seeing tickets being given away.