Originally posted by Curt Henning
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I brought up Spence because quite a few people on here were saying that the Mikey fight made him a PPV guy, like him and Porter would be PPV. I don't know if that fight would do 30k on PPV.
Like I said all of that exposure is good and that is an impressive number for Wilder, but I think anyone saying Wilder or Spence is on track to be a PPV guy, I mean I don't see it.
The cost of buying a PPV vs pirating it online is just killing a lot of guys' chances of becoming a big PPV guy. These streaming services could really help all these guys make money. Wilder passing on that offer from DAZN, if he is thinking he will be a PPV guy, I think that is a very risky and foolish tract/path to take. He's 33 he doesn't have much time left to make his money.
I think the main PPV buyers now are bars/restaurants, those are the places that really take the numbers high. Besides Joshua I don't see who Wilder can possibly fight to really make big money, and that is because Joshua is the number 1 or 2 star in the sport.
The only black PPV boxing star was Floyd and he made it because 90% of the people were tuning in to see him lose. These guys thinking they are going to follow Floyd's path and make even close to his money are off if they are trying to go PPV. I think they are going to cost themselves a lot of money compared to what somewhere like DAZN is offering.
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