Arum is claiming the live gate is over $16 million. How many buys do you think the fight will do in the UK? Didn't the first fight do 450,000 in the UK? I assume this fight will do much more?
I don't think cable providers take half the PPV money anymore. The fight is available on Fox's app and ESPN's app, so they don't really need the cable providers anymore. I'd be very surprised if the cable companies had enough leverage to demand 50% anymore when there are so many other options. The cable companies already lost all of their WWE and UFC revenue. There's no way they're still insisting on 50% like they used to decades ago. It hasn't been that way in a long time. Arum put a big fight on closed circuit in the 90s and the cable companies adjusted the split to bring boxing back to PPV and they have even less leverage now than they did then.
I don't think cable providers take half the PPV money anymore. The fight is available on Fox's app and ESPN's app, so they don't really need the cable providers anymore. I'd be very surprised if the cable companies had enough leverage to demand 50% anymore when there are so many other options. The cable companies already lost all of their WWE and UFC revenue. There's no way they're still insisting on 50% like they used to decades ago. It hasn't been that way in a long time. Arum put a big fight on closed circuit in the 90s and the cable companies adjusted the split to bring boxing back to PPV and they have even less leverage now than they did then.
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