Comments Thread For: Fury-Wilder Produced Just Over 750,000 PPV Buys; Could Reach 800,000

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

Not great numbers. With the huge promotional push I thought it would do at least 1 million buys

Neither guy was a PPV draw going into the fight. Pretty much every fight that has done over 1 Million buys have featured at least 1 established PPV draw.

This was the first fight whereby these guys have been promoted to a mainstream audience. If Fox and ESPN continue to promote these guys the 3rd fight with Fury and Wilder will do over a million buys.

[ShoulderRoll]

Anthony Joshua is the B-side.

[ELPacman]

Arum? Where you at? Didn't he go on record claiming it will hit nearly 2 million buys? Wtf was he thinking.

[Fabes88]

Anthony Joshua is the B-side.

You know this fight didn’t break even right

[petegrif]

Disappointing.

[jonnyc420]

2mil was never gonna happen. 800k isn't a disaster though.

[deathofaclown]

750k isn’t bad at all.

How many fighters outside of the obvious names like Floyd, Canelo etc. Were doing 750k in USA?

Even Canelo only does that with a real dance partner. He only used to do about 300k against the likes of Liam Smith..

Whatever the break even amount was is their business, but i think 750k for a boxing PPV in America right now should be seen as a pretty good result and showed that there’s still fans willing to pay for a good Heavyweight fight, which hasn’t been the case in years.

[sinisterbehavior]

I thought the promotion and fighters did everything right, i was hopeful it would do better. I think its just the PPV climate nowadays. How many more PPVs do you think they would have sold if it was priced at 49.99? I cannot understand why they dont go for more buys at the lower rate...it benefits the bottom line and increased viewers means more potential fans going forward.

[The Big Dunn]

The 750,000 figure includes purchases through In Demand (all cable systems), DirecTV, Dish Network, ESPN+ and the FOX Sports app.

This number seems reasonable. Another poster indicated about 1.3 mil people watched the prelims on FS1 and ESPN2 so that would mean about 60% of those watching the prelims purchased the PPV.

Not what Arum expected though. He suggested 2 mil.

[j.razor]

Better than I thought. That's what's up