Why do posters say fighting in another country effect ppv#'s?

[Jsmooth9876]

This thread is littered with all the usual suspects lol. The money team pay per view counters... The only 5-10 guys on this site who even give 2 fks about how many PPV sales happen when Manny fights.
Who cares how many either him or Floyd do, time to sell 3 million together in the ring...

[Larry the boss]

How about this Larry, provide any data that supports your theory that location does not affect PPV. So far, we only have data that indicates that it does.

There are multiple factors that affect PPV purchases, in the case of Rios and Algieri there was little interest because of the name, location, and low amount of domestic marketing. Arum/Pac took a deal in Macau because there was other forms of compensation that more than made up for low PPV, also having Algieri meant very little operation cost to pay the challenger, lets face it, even if he had another better known named player, a couple hundred thousand ppv's probably wouldn't have made up for the millions more it would cost to get that name.

New york,L.A,Vegas,San Francisco...that is the usual promotion

[djt117]

I do not care about anything you just posted......all i am asking is why posters say location matters

It's because the media doesn't pay as much attention to events happening in far corners of the world compared to ones that are taking place in Vegas.

It might be partially a self-fulfilling prophesy: notice how they only did one 24/7 episode for Pac-Algieri (the presumption was, it's in China, we're not gonna sell that many PPV so not worth the investment). But maybe they could've sold more if they did a full 24/7. Who knows?

Dana White has said the same thing.

It was different when boxing was mainstream news and newspapers had enormous budgets to send writers to Zaire or Manila for a month to report from the fighters' camps up until the fight. Location didn't matter as much then as it does now.