Comments Thread For: Spence-Porter Unification To Land At Barclays - And Off PPV

[john l]

Not that am advocating for PPV but why are fights involving african american boxers always non-PPV in america? Am shocked that this fight has been made on its not on PPV, Ken Porter has been vocal about this fight going on PPV, spence is coming off a nice PPV sale, why can't they build on that with this fight?

Because African Americans don't have a built in fan base.Unless you create a "rassin" persona like Mayweather who most paid to see him lose(and never did get their dream)they are not promoted the same. Some is prob racism and some might have to do with the fact more have a "boxer" style, and some might just be a pride in your tribe kind of thing.The one thing I do know is that if you gave a manager/promoter a choice between Mexican,PR,Irish or even Polish and a African American they would take the African American last, even if you told them that the AA prospect was a BIT better then others.

[Mr.365]

Man down! Shots fired!!

[b Murphington]

This is great news for boxing fans worldwide. The only PPV we should have is WILDER vs FURY/ SPENCE vs CRAWFORD.

I think a Canelo vs GGG part 3 would warrant a PPV as well as a Wilder vs Joshua, but agreed on Wilder vs Fury and Spence vs Crawford.

Those are super fights.

[N/A]

Not that am advocating for PPV but why are fights involving african american boxers always non-PPV in america? Am shocked that this fight has been made on its not on PPV

Plenty of PPV fights have involved African Americans.

Mayweather/Berto, Mayweather/Mosley, Mayweather/Judah, Hopkins/Jones, Tarver/Jones, Jones/Harding, Toney/Holyfield, Tyson/Holyfield, Bowe/Holyfield, Tyson/Entienne, Holyfield/Foreman, Douglas/Holyfield, etc.

The main issue here is Thurman vs Pacquiao is PPV a couple weeks before, and the winners of the two fights will be PPV. To really maximize the Thurman/Pacquiao winner vs the Spence/Porter winner, one of the fights needed to be on Fox, to get that huge exposure.

[KillaMane26]

Only the Porters thought this would be PPV in the 1st place

[KillaMane26]

Plenty of PPV fights have involved African Americans.

Mayweather/Berto, Mayweather/Mosley, Mayweather/Judah, Hopkins/Jones, Tarver/Jones, Jones/Harding, Toney/Holyfield, Tyson/Holyfield, Bowe/Holyfield, Tyson/Entienne, Holyfield/Foreman, Douglas/Holyfield, etc.

The main issue here is Thurman vs Pacquiao is PPV a couple weeks before, and the winners of the two fights will be PPV. To really maximize the Thurman/Pacquiao winner vs the Spence/Porter winner, one of the fights needed to be on Fox, to get that huge exposure.

Nah aint that deep. Spence is still unknown. Mikey brought in the latino crowd for their fight. Porter not big enough help sell the fight. Plus we all know its a mismatch.
Thurman/Spence a ppv fight tho

[The Big Dunn]

Because African Americans don't have a built in fan base.Unless you create a "rassin" persona like Mayweather who most paid to see him lose(and never did get their dream)they are not promoted the same. Some is prob racism and some might have to do with the fact more have a "boxer" style, and some might just be a pride in your tribe kind of thing.The one thing I do know is that if you gave a manager/promoter a choice between Mexican,PR,Irish or even Polish and a African American they would take the African American last, even if you told them that the AA prospect was a BIT better then others.

One of the reasons Floyd said he left Bob was his inability to market to African Americans and the urban boxing fan. I don’t think that is the case but Bob doesn’t hasn’t had as much success with prominent African American fighters once boxing became less of a mainstream sport.

[john l]

Plenty of PPV fights have involved African Americans.

Mayweather/Berto, Mayweather/Mosley, Mayweather/Judah, Hopkins/Jones, Tarver/Jones, Jones/Harding, Toney/Holyfield, Tyson/Holyfield, Bowe/Holyfield, Tyson/Entienne, Holyfield/Foreman, Douglas/Holyfield, etc.

The main issue here is Thurman vs Pacquiao is PPV a couple weeks before, and the winners of the two fights will be PPV. To really maximize the Thurman/Pacquiao winner vs the Spence/Porter winner, one of the fights needed to be on Fox, to get that huge exposure.

That last paragraph is spot on and a very good point.

[vitali1999]

Wrong! The winner fights the winner of Thurman/Pac in a big 3 belt PPV unification.

Only then does Crawford get his chance.

Pac cannot compete with the top 3 at this stage of his career. Thurman, Spence and Crawford would all beat him.

[Sledgeweather17]

Pac cannot compete with the top 3 at this stage of his career. Thurman, Spence and Crawford would all beat him.

Thurman almost got stopped by Joseto Lopez.

Pac/Thurman right now is 50/50, maybe even 60/40 for Pac.