Comments Thread For: Arum: If Loma-Lopez Doesn't Get Viewers I Hope It Gets, Networks Won't Want To Step Up

[A.K]

How can a fight between the supposed p4p #1 and a youngster who isn’t anywhere near the top 10 p4p list be a “great fight”?

Because people don’t know boxing they are sold on antics, the wwe figured this out years ago people just believe in **** talking it sells more than the action.

[A.K]

How well has Arum promoted this fight? I have YouTube TV and I haven't seen one advertisement for it.

Arum isn’t a exec at ESPN, the problem is no real execs are behind boxing.

[Bob Haymon]

How can a fight between the supposed p4p #1 and a youngster who isn’t anywhere near the top 10 p4p list be a “great fight”?

If that's your standard then there aren't any great fights anymore. Top p4p fighters facing each other is extremely rare and when it does happen the A-side fighter has an age, weight, or size advantage. Fury and Wilder aren't top p4p fighters, yet they've had the highest selling PPV in a long time and broke the heavyweight gate record.

[PRchamp]

major props to bob arum for putting this on espn and not making it ppv. he could have pulled a move like those greedy bastards at pbc and made it an 80 dollar ppv but he did not! al gaymon should take notes.

I mean to be honest none of the PBC PPV fights are PPV worthy but the same can be said about Lomochenko-Lopez and Crawford-Brook.....ESPN knows those fights won’t turn a profit.

So in general none are PPV worthy. Arum was forced to put this on regular ESPN don’t get it twisted, he didn’t do it for good faith

[Afi23]

It's going to be hard! NCAA Football! #2 Alabama vs. #3 Georgia on CBS @ 8:00 EST! I won't be missing that! GO DAWGS! Hopefully the game will be over before the main event!

Yep!

Arum and ESPN are definitely wishing for a 2hrs30min blowout instead of a 3hrs+ "nail biter"!

[LoadedWraps]

Arum was going to put this on PPV but changed his mind. Due to low predicted sales figures.

Keep that in mind when he now tries to run his BS.

No one outside of purists cares sadly. It should get decent viewership but if it was PPV it would likely bomb. Lomachenko is a top 3 p4p fighter and future ATG but right now all eyes are on the HW division and we can't blame the masses for that. Fury is a once in a millenia fighter, the whole world will stop to watch his next fight.

[LoadedWraps]

Just gotta wait for the next Ali to make an impact in the world wide stage.

Fury has been here.


Lmao at these "fans". Don't know greatness when it smacks them in the face.

[BLASTER1]

Fury has been here.


Lmao at these "fans". Don't know greatness when it smacks them in the face.

I will give Fury this i believe he is the best heavyweight atm and by far the best player off mind games but its a watered down era.
Which isnt Furys fault so i give him that.

[rocktop]

Boxing already building the excuses on why the product sucks. Even with a great fight between Lomochenko-Lopez outside of hardcore fans nobody gives a crap about this fight and that’s sad.

I blame putting on so much crap fights that people stop watching.

Top Rank and Arum going to kill Boxing being shown on ESPN. If it wasn’t Tyson Fury PPV earnings, espn would of pulled the plug a long time ago before the pandemic

not only that its getting paired with a good ufc fight too so this should have no reason to fail

[TMLT87]

Lmao ESPN doesn’t even get those type of numbers for the NBA it’s 2020 people do not watch cable

The NFL has still been pulling 10 million+ viewers on there this season. The UFC is likely to break a million buys on $65 PPV on ESPN+ the weekend after this and has done multiple times this year already during the pandemic. Again, no excuses. If one of the biggest boxing matches out there cant pull over a million viewers when its being given away on regular ESPN for free then things are truly ****ed.