Comments Thread For: Arum More Confident Than Ever Wilder-Fury II Will Do 2 Million PPV Buys

[Monzon99]

This "fight" is a total fraud fix. Where is the tension and grudge between the two camps? They are all in on this fraud together.

[-Kev-]

So I usually go down to the local casino or a nearby sports bar for the PPV fights. Sometimes they don't even have a cover, but at most its only $10.

Now I know they have to pay a lot more off the top, but I wonder how those numbers are factored in?

A few years ago, this is something that I was told by a bar owner/friend, I didn’t know about it, it might be common knowledge, but I didn’t know until he told me how that works. He told me bars have to pay a pretty large fee for PPV fights. If they don’t, they can get sued. He said the price they pay depends on something about a fire code limit or something. Bars can pretty much end up paying thousands of dollars for showing 1 PPV fight. But I wonder if that money will go towards the PPV, or if it’s still just $100 for Mayweather-Pacquiao, the thousands of dollars is for the license to show the fight, and that license is from a third party. I imagine a certain percentage of the “extra” money goes to the PPV and the third party company keeps most of it? Idk, that’s a good question.

[khizon]

Maybe but it would do even more buys if the undercard wasnt so poor.

.

Nah. This main event will sell itself. Look how may-pac did w that horrible undercard

[khizon]

This "fight" is a total fraud fix. Where is the tension and grudge between the two camps? They are all in on this fraud together.

It's always been like that. Tension and grudges are the phony part.

[wileyhemi]

I don't really understand what the enormous financial resources would be. Fox and ESPN devoted an incredible amount of airtime to promoting the fight, discussing the fight, airing shoulder programming for the fight, etc.

The idea that they need 1.1 or 1.2 million to break even due to "enormous financial resources" spent on the fight seems very strange. Not sure what Idec is referring to there.

They have production costs for the promotional shows just like for any other show and they can't sell the time they use for promotion to advertisers. 30 second Super Bowl ads cost 4 mil this year

[WBC WBA IBF]

they can't sell the time they use for promotion to advertisers.

They wouldn't be able to sell it to advertisers anyway. Ad inventory and promotional inventory are two different things. If Fox didn't air commercials for the fight during the Super Bowl, they would have just aired commercials for a different Fox show instead.

[Bronx23]

Yeah but Canelo is meant to be the face of boxing, so his standard of what is considered a success or failure is a different level to others

Fury and Wilder are well known but neither considered the real facts of boxing. So 1m for them would be a huge success

I still doubt it does 1m anyway

Actually no. a million would not be a financial success given the amount of money they put into it

[AdonisCreed]

This fight ain't doing 2 million PPV buys. I don't care if they had a Superbowl commercial. Me personally I'm excited about the fight happening and i cant wait to see Wilder and Fury fight. But I just don't see two million buys. I think 750-800k buys which is still solid. I would like to see them bring in 1 million that would be great. But 2 million is ridiculous.

[Ccarroll2133]

I don't really understand what the enormous financial resources would be. Fox and ESPN devoted an incredible amount of airtime to promoting the fight, discussing the fight, airing shoulder programming for the fight, etc.

The idea that they need 1.1 or 1.2 million to break even due to "enormous financial resources" spent on the fight seems very strange. Not sure what Idec is referring to there.

Yeah I agree with you, I don't think they actually spent that much at all, but it can be spun that way if someone wants.

They were using their own Super Bowl time slots they were already alloted. They showed 2 boxing promos in place of Masked Singer, Simpsons, NFL on fox? Or whatever they decided to promote.

These slots were already there for fox and what they chose to show did not cost them a dime imho

[bigdunny1]

Not even half what Arum predicted. Fight lost money will struggle to break even

Sources: The rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury generated in the neighborhood of approxmately 800,000 to 850,000 pay-per-view buys in North America. Best performance - by far - for a heavyweight title fight since Tyson-Lewis in 2002. Wilder-Fury 1 sold around 325K buys

— Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) February 27, 2020