Rick Glaser: Wilder will never be PPV star

[daggum]

We have to take into consideration what a PPV star in boxing looks like in the post-Mayweather era. What's the threshold? If the standard is 1 million buys or better, then I don't see Wilder becoming a PPV star. If the new target is 500K, it's possible against AJ or Fury, but then you have to consider their selling power as well. As a stand alone against marginal opposition, Wilder can't sell. In fact, not many fighters can today outside of Canelo, Pac, and AJ.

and even that would lose them money because of the huge purses of the fighters. i guess they just like losing money. maybe its a tax scheme for haymon

[rickJen]

A report that says 300,000 PPV buys is hard to believe, if you ask me.
Given that most people who decide to buy do it at the last minute.

So 5,000 buyers a minute in an hour is hard to imagine.

[Curt Henning]

i love reading the dumb brits and dumb fgts "wilder is a fake gangsta that knocks out nobodies and ducks the best"....

wilder is not a "gangsta"...hes actually a humble, good, dude who talks things up for the cameras in attempt to get interest in his fights.......and hes tried to rematch fury immediately to have fury run to top rank and espn and arum admitted they were delaying the fight......barry hearn said he advised AJ to avoid wilder for several years and AJ and barrys son executed that too

wilder came up with AJs 50 million only for AJ to backtrack and say "i wont sell my soul for 50 million...you guys go fight him if you think its so easy"

before that wilder agreed to fight whyte if they guaranteed him AJ next after that ...hearn "cant do that not how it works"...LOL

after all of that wilder was willing to take short money to go over to the UK provided hearn made the date in 2018....what does hearn do? put no date on a draft of main points...when asked when the date was he says "april 2019" which was directly against what wilder asked...LOL

but yeah hes avoiding the top comp!!! LOL

bunch of sad, pathetic, dumb fgts the whole lot of you

[Madison Boxing]

people arent interested in watching wilder knock out 40 year olds who hes already beaten before.

[OnePunch]

Definitely some truth in this. The more promoters have signed more guys to multi-year deals the less actual promoting they seem to do. Which likely helped open the door for a guy like Al who's not promoting either but is letting you take home more of your money.

Boxing would be better off if promoters just made specific fights and weren't invested in the success of specific boxers they got some 3 year deal with.

Except it is the promoter who incurs the losses for the first 15 or 20 fights in the fighters career. Those fights COST money, they dont MAKE money. So if the promoter does not have a contract which gives him the chance of making his money back one day, then what incentive is there for him to fund the first 75% of the fighters career?

[FinitoxDinamita]

Kinda odd to say he'll never be a PPV star then go on to say PPV is dying and irrelevant. So what does it even matter if he wont be a PPV star if there wont be anymore PPV stars anyway?

What he is saying is that even if PPV was still popular, wilder isnt capable of being a star.

[llll]

If you don't know who deontay wilder is, go google that shlt. Don't everybody believe in google?

[Laligalaliga]

Rick Glaser, who is he, and who cares.

Deontay is ESPN's most famous boxer of 2019.

One of Forbes' top 5 highest-earning boxers of 2019.

Net worth soon to climb into the 9-figure range in 2020.

Longest reigning currently active Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Future Hall of Famer and Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Stop beating around the bush.
All this and more still won't make him a ppv star.
Leave the message and attack the messenger.
Lmao.

[llll]

Deontay Wilder is easily the most interesting person in boxing. He is the most interesting person in the entire sport.

On top of that, the mother ****er has a nuclear bomb in his right hand.

[llll]

You know what will make Deontay wilder a ppv star? Holding all the ****ing belts.

Whoever becomes the next Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the world will get a free ticket on the hype train