Comments Thread For: Hearn Fires Back at Arum Over Comments on Sky Sports, PPV

[Rick Taylor]

A lot of these fans are football fans who go to the night of boxing for the piss up and really know very little about how they are being mugged by the likes of Hearn and Sky .Like you say Povetkin v Whyte PPv is a joke but the idiots will buy and Hearn knows this .....and he will keep doing this why these idiots do that.

are brits really this dumb and pathetic? 😆

Hearn has some good points here, but at the end of the day, you can't argue with the fact that the British TV networks are putting some shoddy events on PPV.

no he doesnt 😂

[Angeljuice]

Again says more about the UK fan and networks. No market for Loma-Teofemo, but have no problem with Povetkin-Whyte.

No market for Loma-Teofemo at 4:30 am you mean. Why would anybody buy that fight at that time of day?

Povetkin-Whyte has home interest, will be on at a decent time and is a heavyweight fight (always more marketable).

[Angeljuice]

are brits really this dumb and pathetic? 😆

Not pathetic enough to pay $75+ for any fight ever and not pathetic enough to pay to view two foreigners fight at 4:30 a.m.

[BamBamMurphy]

The thing Bob is forgetting is the three ppvs coming up from Sky will cost less combined than Fury v Wilder 3 which will have another garbage undercard......you cant complain about brits having to shell out when you charge $80 a pop

[Rick Taylor]

Not pathetic enough to pay $75+ for any fight ever and not pathetic enough to pay to view two foreigners fight at 4:30 a.m.

but you guys pay for guys like whyte and chisora? 😆

[FLY TY]

No market for Loma-Teofemo at 4:30 am you mean. Why would anybody buy that fight at that time of day?

Povetkin-Whyte has home interest, will be on at a decent time and is a heavyweight fight (always more marketable).

I agree with the time thing, but even Hearn doesn't give that excuse. He says nobody in the UK knows Lopez...I thought brits were supposed to be the most knowledgeable and passionate boxing fans on the planet

As far as the heavyweight thing goes, dillan whyte is a loudmothed CONTENDER, who's never had a world title, and has been knocked out twice. Povetkin is a 41 year old faded former champion, who, along with whyte, is a ped user...but your excuse is that since they're heavyweights, and it starts on time, the fight is more marketable?

I'm sure if the networks came to Arum with a reasonable offer, he'd have been more than willing to push the fight ahead at least a couple hours, especially since it's on regular espn over here.

[Angeljuice]

but you guys pay for guys like whyte and chisora? 😆

Whyte and Chisora are both British and both entertaining to watch. Obviously Brits are more interested in these guys than others would be, there are plenty of American fighters who are big news in the States but unknown in the rest of the world. You may pay to see them fight, we wouldn't.

You can pay £10-£25 to watch a fight and not think much about it, but if asked to pay £75, they would tell the network to f-off (I don't know why Americans just bend over and take it).

[Clegg]

So Arum went from complaining about too many UK PPVs to putting Loma Vs Lopez on UK PPV within the space of a day

[Grange_27]

Again says more about the UK fan and networks. No market for Loma-Teofemo, but have no problem with Povetkin-Whyte.

The hardcore UK fanbase think its an absokute joke that the best fight of the year so far isnt on SKY. Hearn 3 PPV shows are a joke too he can foxtrot oscar if he thinks im buying that ****e. Why does he control the Sky budget? Its a joke he would rather siphon money across to his 3rd rate fighters than pay for the real deal.


BT are putting on Dubios vs Joyce on normal subscription so Ill give them a pass.

[Coqqos]

No market for Loma-Teofemo at 4:30 am you mean. Why would anybody buy that fight at that time of day?

Povetkin-Whyte has home interest, will be on at a decent time and is a heavyweight fight (always more marketable).

Only hardcore boxing fans like me. I get up at 4am to watch this ****