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IF the fight was to be held in England they would attempt to accommodate American PPV as much as possible with the start time.
But because of the large sums of money involved it's extremely likely that they would have ended up putting the bout in Las Vegas instead.
Haymon is very familiar with how much money can be brought in from Vegas site fees and a successful PPV. Offering a $50 million guarantee is nothing if they get to keep the rest.
The question is why Joshua declined and ducked the offer? Since $50 million is exactly what he had asked for?
They aren't tragic at all.
Pacquiao vs Broner sold around 400,000 PPVs. Those are two fighters with high name recognition.
For Wilder to get ~300,000 buys in this era against a relative unknown like Luis Ortiz is quite good.
Fury flopped against Wallin. 3500 tickets sold. And 5489 tickets sold against Schwarz.
Wilder had 13,182 in attendance for the Breazeale fight.
Those numbers are not close at all.
I just relay the facts. If you get butthurt about them or start to cry then that's on you.
But because of the large sums of money involved it's extremely likely that they would have ended up putting the bout in Las Vegas instead.
Haymon is very familiar with how much money can be brought in from Vegas site fees and a successful PPV. Offering a $50 million guarantee is nothing if they get to keep the rest.
The question is why Joshua declined and ducked the offer? Since $50 million is exactly what he had asked for?
They aren't tragic at all.
Pacquiao vs Broner sold around 400,000 PPVs. Those are two fighters with high name recognition.
For Wilder to get ~300,000 buys in this era against a relative unknown like Luis Ortiz is quite good.
Fury flopped against Wallin. 3500 tickets sold. And 5489 tickets sold against Schwarz.
Wilder had 13,182 in attendance for the Breazeale fight.
Those numbers are not close at all.
I just relay the facts. If you get butthurt about them or start to cry then that's on you.
Large sums of money in Vegas you say? But AJ isn't a star in the US remember? Wilder has only lost his side big money, not made it. How much do you think Wilder got paid for the rematch against Fury? Everything else would have to made up by AJ. But remember, he isn't a star.
Haymon knows about successful PPV's?? Just wait... Hahahahahahahahaha.
Sorry.
Why didn't they do all this for the supposed number 1 and 2 in Fury/Wilder? Why did they lose 10's of millions instead of making profit? You said they were bigger stars than AJ in the US. So why couldn't they even break even by a long shot? Why didn't they make 100 Mill or more in profit like you seem to think the AJ fight would, even though you say AJ isn't a star, but Fury and wilder are in the US? Hmmm?
The 50 Mill offer that had BT Sport putting up most of the money which they and Eddies nemeses Frank warren confirmed? The deal that meant AJ would have had to pay Sky 33 Million pound just to break from his contract with them which would have meant fighting for less than he gets against anybody for a fight he travels in, and has another company run the show where they set him up and rip him off like they did with Fury in the first fight? GTFOH.
Broner is a bum. Pac is as old as the arc. They're not selling like they used to.
For a fighter who holds a world title at Heavyweight, made 6 defences, and is a supposed star, 300,000 PPV sales is good? In a country that has a population of 333 Million or more people? Yeah, it's not. It's stinking. Really stinking.
Now give me the Wilder attendance numbers just before he won the title, then all his title fights. Don't just pick one out. Nobody knew who Wallin or the other guy was. Fury had only had 2 fights in the US before those 2. And Wilder is the American. Fury isn't. Yet when it came to the rematch, most there were for Fury, not Wilder.
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